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

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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.