No press reports yet. But this Daryl Issa 'empty chair', still underway, out in California seems to have a pretty sizable turnout. Photo courtesy of TPM Reader CM ...
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I doubt his many of his constituents know about his background. Having said that, Republicans vote blindly for their candidate and Dems don't bother showing up.
Yep. I live in his district and my idiot neighbors voted for the useless “vaping congressman” before Issa, who was indicted in the last Trump admin, because they thought he was his father. They just vote R reflexively.
I haven't seen it yet. But Dems should take advantage of Chairless Town halls that take the chair. (Seriously it would give them face time with people who might now be interested in what they have to say.) But they better have something to say.
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Fantastic Daryl Issa keep up the town hall meetings. TSF and Elon don’t like that real people are attending these meeting and able to express their anger at what is happening in our government.
It took many years for us here in CA49 to get rid of (proper nomenclature) "effing Issa." Then the MAGAts inland sent his sorry ass back to the House. I'm not sure their absence at this event indicates they won't do it again. Sad.
Even in those areas where they were checking registrations to make sure the attendance was Republican, the crowds were ripping these politicians new ones. People are pissed!
Are you aware that Sydney Powell got her hands on a Dominion hard drive? It was stated Trump’s indictment and, everyday, I am more convinced Elon’s little team of teens reversed engineered the system in Trump’s favour. 🤷🏼♀️
That was a rally, not a town hall. It's important those not get confused. Outdoors, premade signs, lots of celeb speakers, little Q&A, not inviting to R voters is not a town hall. Khanna should ashamed for doing it that way, but it is Khanna. That won't flip a ranching district, just stroke egos.
Each speaker only spoke a few minutes, even Ro. Ro made sure the focus was on those with questions and he allowed three more questions even after he was told it was time to leave for the next townhall. That’s a whole lot better than Calvert has EVER done.
Was there a single Latine speaker? Was immigration discussed? The effect on ranch land, or hospitality? Climate change? That event is making me so angry after so many great, constituent-focused events.
Considering his district is mostly empty desert, the town of Santee (known in SD as “Klantee” in the 90’s) & Temecula… would be really interesting to see the hard questions being asked.
He gave up. He carpetbagged it over to the district that lost the “vaping congressman” who people only voted for because they thought he was his dad who held the seat previously. I live in Issa’s district. I’m surrounded by idiots.
Maybe no public spaces large enough in his district? The Santee Civic Center only holds 150 people. The Ronald J. Parks Community Recreation Center in Temecula maxes out at 250. These are bright red areas FYI.
Pretty soon , with all the thousands of disgruntled voters showing up at Republican town halls..the stupidity that these are all " paid Democratic activists "will lose its desired effect !!
It was leaked there would be non fox softball type questions and perhaps even some mean words and mean words hurt. Meanwhile in Ukraine Zelenskyy visits troops on frontlines may having to duck wizzing by bullets. Here, wizzing pants scared of mean words or hard questions.
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Issa was a leader in the many and expensive hearings about Benghazi and about her private email server. He was angry Clinton wasn't indicted. Remember the chants: "Lock her up"?
According to Musk these are the same people traveling a round to each event - simultaneously! He should be studying them for future Tesla transportation models not being butthurt by them!
I remember when he did this. He was a disgraceful rep for them and now he represents my district. Issa must go down. He doesn’t serve the people, only himself. He is a coward!
I didn’t even know that crooked bastard was even still in congress. I feel like he was the gym Jordan of his day. Just yappy and annoying while being an obviously compromised hack
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Record turn outs at town halls across the country last week—where is the reporting?
This was held in my town. It was advertised for 325 people with a waiting list. We ran issa out of his last district and he stepped into Duncan Hunter Jr’s shoes. It is ruby red but borders on blue. We can only hope for change
I’m luckily in the part that is represented by Scott Peters. I lived further West and was repped by Issa for years. We finally got smart and drove him out of town. I don’t understand people that vote for a crook.
I was in his last district for 40 yrs. In all those yrs he had 1 town hall in the heyday of the Tea Party. He brought police and was trying to stir up a riot. Didn't work. Besides that he only came to town for his fund raiser at the Country Club. Have a problem? Too bad, he couldn't have cared less.
So can I just understand this “empty chair”, event? People show up to no representative, but do others show up and speak? Is there someone there that is starting a conversation that helps those constituents with actionable ways to go forward? Or just it’s a show of defiance?
Yes, others show up and speak, and answer questions from the audience. Topics from climate change to trans rights to the VA to Medicaid and Social Security and DOGE. Good discussions, good energy.
If Issa thinks he'll lose (again) he'll just resign (again) and move to another district. He's such a putz but his jurisdiction is very red, has traditionally been ok with corrupt reps & they always vote for Trump - the tides are changing though - hopefully.
I was there it was standing room only. Probably 95% white people. Escondido is a majority Latino population. There was a park next to it with a bunch of people playing soccer and picnicking. We need to reach them. It felt very redundant. Same things we say all the time. There must be another way 🤷🏼♀️
NYT still has no story on the anti-oligarchy rallies in Colorado. 45,000 people attended in 2 cities, including Greeley, which has 30,000 more registered GOP voters compared with Dems.
So many showed up for an empty chair town hall in Anchorage on Thursdaythat the number of participants exceeded the max capacity (per fire code) of the auditorium, and a bunch of folks had to keep their protest outside.
I haven't seen it yet. But Dems should take advantage of Chairless Town halls that take the chair. (Seriously it would give them face time with people who might now be interested in what they have to say.) But they better have something to say.
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I haven't seen it yet. But Dems should take advantage of Chairless Town halls that take the chair. (Seriously it would give them face time with people who might now be interested in what they have to say.) But they better have something to say.
#Vivelaresistance
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Also, let’s hope ISSA lays some eggs now. At least be productive in some way in his new incarnation ✌️
I really hope Issa is having the day he deserves hiding from his voters. Such a coward
Massive ass kisser. He just personally nominated Trump for the Nobel.
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Representative we've ever had.
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Oh this is great, I hope you’re enjoying this Mr. Issa, you reap what you sow Sir.
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They’ve even turned the ever-friendly donut into a middle finger.
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Record turn outs at town halls across the country last week—where is the reporting?
Thanks for your work!
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