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Stapilus: Labrador gets an earful

In a recent column, Randy Stapilus comments:

Credit Raul Labrador with holding a town hall meeting, and for not hot-footing in and out. The three hours he spent there must have been an endurance challenge; most town halls I have attended over the years have been substantially shorter, usually half as long.

In other respects, compared to other recent town halls around the country, it was not terribly different: Republican representative appears and is jeered by hundreds of people in normally friendly locations. Across the state line in the adjacent eastern Oregon congressional district, Representative Greg Walden encountered much the same in Hood River (his small home town), Bend and elsewhere: A Republican routinely re-elected by supermajorities over two decades faced unusually large and stunningly hostile crowds. It must have been unlike anything he’d seen before. And in Idaho? Would anyone other than Labrador’s loyal chorus show up? They did; and, true, some Labrador (and Donald Trump) backers did too. More here.

Question: Will you attend a townhall in North Idaho if Congressman Labrador holds one?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog