Sen. Mike Crapo is all about doing town halls. Was. He was all about doing town halls, until the 2016 election. Since then, not so much. The Idaho Republican who once bragged extensively about the 200 town halls he’d done in two years is now hiding from constituents—he hasn’t done a town hall yet in 2017—and his staffers are lying about why:
One constituent-cum-activist even tried to get in touch directly with Crapo to request a town hall — but was rebuffed by a staffer.
"He said that people hadn't expressed an interest in holding a town hall," Indivisible Idaho director Sarah Clemens said. However, the staffer was wrong: "You have people from all different kinds of groups. You have letters to the editor saying, 'Hey, we want to talk to you.'"
Members of Indivisible, a grassroots organization that pressures members of Congress to meet with constituents, and others have repeatedly called on Crapo and other members of Idaho's congressional delegation to hold town halls, organizing protests, phoning their members' offices en masse and visiting their state offices to meet with congressional staff.
Gosh, I wonder why a Republican would be nervous about doing a town hall these days? But when Republicans in Idaho are too scared to face their constituents, that’s impressive.