Rep. Drunken Van Orden, like many Republicans, is refusing to hold a town hall meeting with his constituents because he knows that there is hell to pay (not to be confused with Hell Toupee, whom he loves and worships). So, to help out, Rep Mark Pocan held a town hall meeting just miles from DVO’s district. Pocan reported that people drove for two hours to get to his meeting, because they were in desparate need for answers and DVO was not speaking to them..
In response, DVO had his people arrange a hasty, last minute, seat of the pants virtual town hall on Facebook. Needless to say, it did not go well. In fact, it was such an epic failure that it caught Rachel Maddow’s attention:
MADDOW: Democratic Congressman Mark Pocan was here on this show last night to talk about holding an in-person town hall in Wisconsin near the district of Republican Congressman Derrick Van Orden, who apparently won’t meet with people in his district in person. But, hey, what do you know, after Mark Pocan did that this weekend, met with Congressman Derrick Van Orden’s constituents this past weekend, and then after he got a ton of local press coverage for having done that, after he was here last night to talk about having done that, wouldn’t you know, hey, today, Republican Congressman Derrick Van Orden did decide to hastily get on Facebook live and call that a town hall. today, in the middle of the workday.. Maybe because it seemed to have been organized on quite short notice. it did not go great.. I’ll show you what I mean.. See if you can follow his logic here.
