KGAN: “[Miller-Meeks has] been accused of dodging town halls with constituents in person for months. In a video from August 4 that was just discovered in the last day or so by media outlets, Miller-Meeks tells a group of Johnson County Republicans that she’ll hold town hall meetings, Quote, ‘when hell freezes over.’”
KGAN: Rep. Miller- Meeks says she’ll hold town hall ‘when hell freezes over’
- Whether or not Iowa’s Congressional candidates are holding in-person town halls has become a major focal point this election cycle.
- Many Republicans across the country have opted out of holding them after some GOP leaders advised against it, following the passing of President Donald Trumps controversial budget bill.
- So far Republican incumbent Mariannette Miller-Meeks has joined the other Republicans and hasn’t held a single in-person town hall this year. She currently represents Southeast Iowa in Congress and is running for re-election to the 1st District. It is expected to be one of the most competitive House races in the country in 2026.
- Over the past few months the Congresswoman has fielded questions on whether she would have one.
- However, in a video of an August Johnson County Republican meeting that came to the spotlight this week in a CNN report, she’s criticized the events and claimed Democrats are turning them into a spectacle.
- The full video has since been taken off YouTube…
- “Even now Tom Barton [with the] Cedar Rapids Gazette, ‘when Miller-Meeks gonna hold a town hall,’ when hell freezes over,” Rep. Miller-Meeks said. “You know, I don’t have to hold a town hall so you can come and yell at me. You can yell at me at the county fair and you did.”
- The congresswoman’s Democratic opponents have been criticizing her for not holding the in-person town halls.
- “Mariannette Miller-Meeks says one thing to Iowans’ faces and another behind closed doors,” Katie Smith, a DCCC spokesperson said. “She refuses to face Iowans because she can’t defend her record of ripping away health care and raising costs to give billionaires another payout. Miller-Meeks said it best herself: she’ll only do her job ‘when hell freezes over,’ one of the many reasons why she’ll lose next year.”
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