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Raw Story: 'We can't bear it': Republican locks office doors as constituents demand meeting
Raw Story - 'We can’t bear it': Republican locks office doors as constituents demand meeting
Andrew Roth, Michigan Advance
March 24, 2025 8:37AM ET
Grassroots organizers delivered more than 2,000 petition signatures to the Lansing office of U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI) demanding that the first-term congressman hold an in-person town hall meeting.
Barrett held a telephone town hall earlier in the month, following guidance from the House GOP’s campaign arm to avoid backlash at in-person meetings.
But the information to call in for that meeting didn’t reach everyone who registered for the event, and some Democrats have expressed concern that the only participants allowed to ask questions during virtual events would be Republican supporters.
Curtis Hamilton, one of the organizers who delivered the petitions Friday, said that the protesters “feel that he is not listening and that he is going through filters, and we just want to talk to him unfiltered.”
Petitions were also delivered to the office of U.S. Rep. John James (R-MI) earlier in the week.
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Andrew Roth, Michigan Advance
March 24, 2025 8:37AM ET
Grassroots organizers delivered more than 2,000 petition signatures to the Lansing office of U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI) demanding that the first-term congressman hold an in-person town hall meeting.
Barrett held a telephone town hall earlier in the month, following guidance from the House GOP’s campaign arm to avoid backlash at in-person meetings.
But the information to call in for that meeting didn’t reach everyone who registered for the event, and some Democrats have expressed concern that the only participants allowed to ask questions during virtual events would be Republican supporters.
Curtis Hamilton, one of the organizers who delivered the petitions Friday, said that the protesters “feel that he is not listening and that he is going through filters, and we just want to talk to him unfiltered.”
Petitions were also delivered to the office of U.S. Rep. John James (R-MI) earlier in the week.
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