Mariannette Miller-Meeks Facing More Blowback for Refusing to Hold Town Hall

Now, Miller-Meeks is facing more scrutiny about her broken promise to Iowans: local leaders penned a letter to Miller-Meeks urging her to meet with voters and hear their concerns, and she faced unanswered questions in an interview with KGAN about whether she will fulfill her promise to hold a town hall.

DCCC Spokesperson Katie Smith:
“Mariannette Miller-Meeks is too scared to hold a town hall because she knows she can’t defend her vote to rip away health care and raise Iowans’ costs so she can give tax cuts to billionaires and corporations. Embarrassing!”

Watch and read more:

• More than a dozen elected officials in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District (mostly, if not all, Democrats) recently sent Miller-Meeks a letter imploring her to hold an in-person town hall and listen to the concerns of the voters of Southeast Iowa.
• According to her office, the congresswoman…has not held any public events open to all constituents, and offered little, if any, public notice of her appearances.
• “We implore you to hold an in-person town hall and listen to the people of Southeast Iowa,” the letter reads. “Scripted tele-townhalls and tidy photo ops will do nothing for voters who feel that they’ve been failed by their congresswoman. You must listen to the voters of Iowa’s first district and face their questions. Anything less than an in-person town hall with advance notice would be breaking your promise and abdicating your responsibility to the people of Iowa’s first district.”
• In April, during a private event in Bettendorf, the Congresswoman said: “Just like I’ve done every single year, we’ll do in-person town halls.” She reiterated that commitment a week later.

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