As Twitchy has reported, Republican legislators have been drawing bigger-than-usual crowds to their town halls since Donald Trump’s election, and those protests have been drawing plenty of press attention, such as when police escorted Rep. Tom McClintock to his car following a rowdy gathering in California.
Not all legislators are holding town halls, and they’re facing the heat on social media and elsewhere where they’re being called out as cowards. In Atlanta Tuesday, members of the resistance revived Clint Eastwood’s “Eastwooding” bit and set up empty chairs where they thought Sens. David Purdue and Johnny Isakson should have been.
We miss you at the People's townhall @SenatorIsakson @sendavidperdue pic.twitter.com/scraKrsao7
— GAFSJ (@AtlantaMarch) February 21, 2017
About 100 demonstrators rally outside @sendavidperdue's downtown Atlanta office demanding he hold a town hall. #gapol pic.twitter.com/1yDfGFYTJI
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) February 21, 2017
Demonstrators outside Sen. David Perdue's Atlanta office are directing questions to an empty chair with his picture on it. #gapol pic.twitter.com/Zv6DRzA7y6
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) February 21, 2017
@sendavidperdue @JohnnyIsakson @MoveOn @AtlantaMarch Where are you? Your constituents want to talk! #moveon pic.twitter.com/AWNMpwdXyl
— Lisa Campbell Harper (@CampbellHarper) February 21, 2017
Did these grassroots protesters have any idea their idea to hold their own town hall with empty chairs and alert the local media was exactly what Robert B. Reich suggested in his video for the “Indivisible” movement? (A cardboard cutout was another option.)
Attend the town halls of your members of Congress, coming up soon. Watch our latest video with Indivisible to find out how. pic.twitter.com/eeO0CUeMYx
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) February 16, 2017
Rep. Buddy Carter did show up to his own town hall, which reporters described as “rowdy.”
Packed crowd at this @RepBuddyCarter town hall event in Savannah. He's the sole Georgia GOPer to hold public town halls this recess. #gapol https://t.co/LRXEu8OyJQ
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) February 21, 2017
But really, the public was sincerely appreciative that Carter did host a meeting where others didn’t.
Full house with lots of #PlannedParenthood tshirts at @RepBuddyCarter town hall in Savannah pic.twitter.com/4uNmjjeJgr
— Emily Jones (@ejreports) February 21, 2017
More ppl still coming Buddy! @RepBuddyCarter WE STILL HERE! KNOCK KNOCK! YOU LISTENING?? #Indivisible #TheResistance #Resist pic.twitter.com/xQLTUFjRra
— Brina (@SS102016) February 21, 2017
Outside @RepBuddyCarter #townhall, chanting "you work for us" pic.twitter.com/HF8zyWrSdQ
— Emily Jones (@ejreports) February 21, 2017
@RepBuddyCarter ppl who couldn't get in to #townhall #buddycarter #letusin @JoeNBC @mikebarnicle @ananavarro #CarterTownHall @KatyTurNBC pic.twitter.com/jpKe8snBtH
— P.M. Roman (@pmroman116) February 21, 2017
This is what #democracy looks like @RepBuddyCarter #savannah #cartertownhall
— Summer Teal Simpson Hitch (@sumrteal) February 21, 2017
I am watching the @RepBuddyCarter town hall on @WTOC11 and it's getting rowdy. #gapol
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) February 21, 2017
some motivation to share with everyone pic.twitter.com/Odo1x6MO9T
— Viva La Resistance (@VivaLaResistan3) February 21, 2017
If this is what democracy looks like, what was that whole thing where voters pulled the levers to put all of these legislators in office? Those Russians must have been busier than we all suspected.
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Update:
Hmm … we have no idea what the president’s going on about here.
The so-called angry crowds in home districts of some Republicans are actually, in numerous cases, planned out by liberal activists. Sad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 21, 2017
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