Freedom Caucus founder Rep. Jim Jordan forced to have town meeting when constituents show up

Daily Kos
February 20, 2017


Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) decided to skip the in-person town hall meeting this week.
So his constituents figured out his schedule, and took the town meeting to him, as chronicled by Dave Weigel on Twitter.

Things got heated, fast, as the crowd waited to confront him about a variety of things, looking at all the signs in the crowd, but particularly climate change and Obamacare.

He's telling the crowd: "It's time to change Obamacare, and bring back insurance that actually empowers you, actually empowers you and not Washington, D.C."
He has a hard time actually getting that sentence out over the crowd's shouts of "Lies."

He was really committed to the lying part, not just telling the crowd "our plan intends to bring back insurance that's affordable," (there isn't a plan in the first place) and this one, on Medicaid and what's going to happen to rural hospitals.

The question is a smart one - repealing Obamacare and killing the Medicaid expansion, turning it into a block grant - would be devastating to rural hospitals that rely on that funding.

Jordan not only refuses to answer that question, he says that "defunding Planned Parenthood would free up money for them," as Weigel paraphrases.

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