“A Closed-door Rally for One Faction:” Ann Wagner Blasted for Hosting Fake Town Hall

Wagner recently boasted online about attending a town hall and having a discussion with MO-02 voters. The town hall in question? A closed-door, invite-only meeting stocked with partisan supporters, where Wagner freely gloated about her decisive vote for the Big, Ugly Law.

Rather than explain her vote to rip away health care from 250,000 Missourians, put rural hospitals at risk, and raise health care costs, Ann Wagner took the easy way out.

In a new letter, a Shrewsbury voter is calling out Wagner for this sham event, noting that she “avoids genuine public engagement” and exposing Wagner’s “obedience to a political brand.”

Read the letter for yourself…

• I recently saw U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner tout on social media that she held a town hall. I was hopeful because open forums where constituents can ask questions from her office are rare.
• Then I learned the truth, it was not actually for the public. Attendance was limited to members of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political group. In other words, a hand-picked, ideologically aligned audience. That’s not a town hall. That’s a closed-door rally for one faction.
• This fits a pattern. Ann Wagner avoids genuine public engagement, preferring tightly controlled events where no one will challenge her positions. It’s easier to nod along to screened questions than to face the people she actually represents.
• Our district deserves a representative willing to hear from all constituents, not just those who agree with her or write checks to her campaign.
• Wagner’s voting record makes clear she is more loyal to her party leadership, and one man in particular, than to the diverse needs of our district. Her approach to governance isn’t service —it’s obedience to a political brand.
• We deserve better. We deserve a representative who will stand in an open room, take unscripted questions and actually listen. Ann Wagner’s refusal to do so is cowardice, and no amount of carefully staged “town halls” will change that fact.

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