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Moscow townhall to Idaho congressmen: Do your job

Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho gives his victory speech at the Idaho GOP Election Night Party, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, at the Riverside Hotel in Boise, Idaho. (Otto Kitsinger / Associated Press)

A “do your job” chant reverberated off the walls of a packed Great Room at Moscow’s 1912 Center at the end of Thursday night’s town hall meeting hosted by the Palouse Action League and LC Valley Indivisible.

The chant was directed toward Idaho’s U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador and Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo, who were not at the meeting. Instead, three chairs with the names of the three men taped to them sat up front for the duration of the meeting.

Palouse Action League’s Mary Hawkins said the purpose of the town hall was for residents to share their concerns and questions with their elected officials.

“For our representatives not to be here is an absolute sign of cowardice on their part,” one man said/Garret Cabeza, Moscow-Pullman Daily News. More here.

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