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Isolation will doom CMR

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers won’t hold a town hall because she lacks the critical thinking skills to participate in an informed discussion with her constituents. In person, she is robotic, unable to veer from memorized GOP sound bites when asked to defend her extreme positions. She is an enthusiastic cheerleader for the AHCA and defunding Planned Parenthood, callously ignoring the harm to over 84,000 constituents in her district who hat will lose access to local public health.

McMorris Rodgers is an attractive, obedient, party-over-country GOP soldier, well-financed by the corporations she protects. She has never faced a true challenger and believes cheer-leading for Trump (“I trust him, he is a positive disruptor”) will ensure a glide path to re-election in 2018. Her self-imposed isolation from her constituents, will in the end, be her undoing.

Susan Hammond

Spokane Valley

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