From fake news to fake town halls (UPDATE: Pete Sessions town hall becomes case study)

It's not like town hall meetings and other forums at public gatherings hosted by members of Congress are unheard of. But lately you'd think by listening to voices on the liberal left that Congress is hunkering down in nuclear fallout shelters instead of gauging constituent input. Particularly the Republican ones. It's a new tactic being employed to put our elected Republican representatives in a Catch-22. If the GOP Congressman agrees to requests to host a town hall, liberal activists will pounce on the meeting and use footage and friendly news coverage to amplify their platform. If the Congressman sees it for the honey trap that it is and goes along with business as usual, liberal activists will make it seem as if the Congressman in question is "dodging" the will of the People. And then they erect an effigy of the Congressman in a "People's Town Hall" to, again, amplify their platform.

Want proof?


https://www.indivisibleaustin.com/2017/02/16/upcoming-town-halls-really

In the words of Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars: "It's a trap!" The Tracker encourages our members of Congress to continue to host bipartisan town hall meetings on their own schedule.

UPDATE: Congressman Pete Sessions (TX-32, Dallas) hosted a town hall today that primarily became a gripe-fest for angry liberal activists. There has been several media reports on this, but we'll include the summary posted by Dallas conservative activist Richard Morgan, a recent candidate for Dallas County Community College District Board of Trustees:

Most telling points from the townhall this morning: 

When a handful of people in the audience booed and jeered during the invocation, some even shouting idiotic things like separation of church and state 

When Sessions said we were adding 5 million net new jobs this year so people could afford their own health insurance, and nearly all the liberals booed 

When he said congress was adding tax cuts, and people responded that tax cuts don't buy food 

When people who moments earlier had complained about earning minimum wage cheered at the idea of legalizing marijuana

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Image credits:
Screenshot from Texas Tribune Facebook share.
Random meme of Admiral Ackbar.