'Welcome to the team': Chris Murphy, Maxwell Frost hold town halls where Republicans won't - All In - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Rep. Maxwell Frost and Sen. Chris Murphy join Chris Hayes after holding a town hall in a GOP district in North Carolina. "If you're here, and you voted for Trump in the past, my message is simple: I'm sorry you were lied to, but welcome to the team," says Frost. - Aired on 04/24/2025.

[dflprincess]

1. Angie Craig is doing this in Minnesota & the 4 Republican reps claim she's violating House ethic rules by doing so

https://www.startribune.com/as-angie-craig-takes-her-town-halls-to-greater-minnesota-republican-colleagues-say-she-may-be-violating-house-ethics-rules/601337798

Minnesota’s four Republican representatives in Congress say Democratic U.S. Rep. Angie Craig may have violated ethics rules by holding town hall meetings outside of her suburban metro district, a charge that she denied Wednesday.

“Well, that’s really rich,” Craig declared after an hour-long town hall meeting at St. Cloud State University, prompting a standing ovation. “Not a single dollar of taxpayer money is being used here. Now I’m going to ask where the hell they are.”

Craig, who is in the middle of a town hall tour of four GOP-controlled congressional districts throughout the state this week, appeared Wednesday at St. Cloud State before a friendly crowd of about 80 people.

“Every single Minnesotan deserves someone from Washington to tell you what’s happening,” she told them. “I wanted to show you someone who shows up and does their job.”...

...Her tour throughout greater Minnesota comes as Republicans here and elsewhere are eschewing in-person town hall meetings. Many of their constituents are vocally unhappy with the Trump administration’s fluctuating tariff policies, a jittery stock market, mass deportations, and cuts to federal jobs and services, and concerned about Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.

It should be noted that Craig is also considering running for Tina Smith's Senate seat. Given she ran her last Congressional campaign as "I'm a Democrat but not always that much of a Democrat" many of us hope she doesn't.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Good Grief! Democrats are journeying to other states, constituents are yelling at empty chairs, so this is a violation?

And I am a fan of Tina Smith, too...

[dflprincess]

3. Not sure if you know this, Tina did say she's not running next year

so the seat is open. We just have options for it, candidates that won't run on not "always agreeing with Democrats".

[Rhiannon12866]

4. No, I did not know that and I thought I just saw her on MSNBC this week.

What about Al Franken? I went to see him when his tour came to my neck-of-the-woods (Albany, New York) and he spoke before a sold out crowd who were shouting for him to run again.

[dflprincess]

5. Al would be great

But, based on emails I've received, he's backing Peggy Flanagan for the seat. (She's our current Lt. Governor.)

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Thanks for the update

And I agree that Al would be great, he was the best when he was in office - and he mostly talked about his time in the Senate when I saw him. He told jokes about Ted Cruz, did impressions of Mitch McConnell and he said that while his committee was waiting, Dianne Feinstein would ask him to tell a joke and the others would argue about why it was funny. At the end, he got a standing ovation from the sold out crowd and that's when the calls came for him to run again.