Angry constituents confronted Republican Rep. Mark Alford of Missouri during a town hall on Monday evening, accusing the lawmaker of being more loyal to President Donald Trump than the people he represents in Congress.
“I am pissed and I am pissed at you,” Fred Higginbotham, a resident of Bolivar, said to Alford. “Get Trump out of office. The man is a dictator. He knows nothing about what he talks about.”
“You need to take your head out of Trump’s a** and start doing your representation of us,” Higginbotham said to a round of applause from the crowd.
At times, the town hall was contentious, with some people yelling at Alford to express their disappointment.
“Your job as Congress is to check and balance our president,” one man told Alford. “There’s been no checks and balances at all.”
Yeah that was my takeaway. They are angry at him but at the end of the day this guy could just throw piss bottles at his constituents and they would still vote for him because of the “R” on the ballot.
I mean this is showing that maybe not.
We can hope that the midterms show this.
You still think they’re gonna let us have midterms?
Hence “hope”
I’m constantly astounded that these guys shitting all over their electorate doesn’t get them voted out. Not for a dem of course, the gerrymandering and brainwashing is too strong for that. But is there literally no other repub in (eg) Texas that didn’t flee the state while his voters were freezing to death such that Ted “zodiac killer” Cruz still got reelected?
Pretty much this. The idea of voting for a Dem to these people is akin to working with the Christian devil.
A personal failing.