'Where is Congress?' Sen. Chuck Grassley town hall in Iowa gets heated quickly

[Dulcinea]

(USA Today) HAMPTON, Iowa — Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley fielded questions from a packed room of heated Iowans on Friday who urged him to "stand up for what's right" in the face of the Trump administration's massive federal downsizing.

“My question, which I think is on our minds here, is where is Congress?” asked one audience member, which was met with cheers from the audience at the Franklin County Courthouse in central Iowa.

The town hall, which drew a crowd of more than 100 Iowans and quickly reached the room's capacity, comes after the National Republican Congressional Committee recently advised Republicans against holding public town halls as speakers' anger over Trump's administration policies went viral.

Grassley is the first Iowa lawmaker to hold a true town hall in the wake of a wave of discontent from voters across the country with Washington, D.C., politics.

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[Lovie777]

1. GQP don't give a shit about their base....................

until they start screaming.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Even then the PutinGOP does not care about their base.

The base can scream all they want.
Falls on deaf ears.

GOP will rig the elections as per usual.

[Walleye]

3. They don't need Americans anymore, they have Elon

[Irish_Dem]

4. Americans are useless eaters who cost too much.

And want too much. Freedom, democracy, etc.

The herd must be culled and the remaining must be made docile and compliant.

[Walleye]

5. Yes, we are occupying too much of their land with national parks, etc.

And insisting on our rights as human beings as Americans. They can’t have that they need to maintain their tyranny at all costs.

[Irish_Dem]

6. All the resources, assets, money rightly belong to the billionaires.

As do all the freedoms, rights, etc.

The laws should be used to protect and enrich the wealthy.
And control and punish everyone else.

Everything needs to be taken from Americans and handed over to the rich.

We are looking at the biggest transfer of land, wealth, assets from Americans to the rich in
US history.

[Walleye]

8. You nailed it. And Black people and women should have no rights at all.

And how can they take seriously a person who lives on $2000 a month Social Security. We are just ants to these people.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Yes. White male supremacy.

And peons who live on SS deserve nothing, no respect, no money, no health care.

[Walleye]

13. The scary thing is, they don't even seem to care about their own family members

[Irish_Dem]

14. Their family probably wants for nothing.

But yes if family members cross the rich guy, they are toast.

[Walleye]

15. Yes, but I mean ordinary magas as well. They only love Trump and Elon, not their family.

[Irish_Dem]

16. Oh yes. They let their children die.

And they don't care if grandma is on the street.

The MAGAs are awful human beings.

[marble falls]

7. Grassley is someone who should know better than to be a MAGA fascist. He started out a blue collar ...

... worker before he went to college. In the 1950s, Grassley farmed and worked in factories in Iowa, first as a sheet metal shearer and then as an assembly line worker.

I don't think for one moment he thought his public would ever turn on him. His ego made him do it. He thought he was loved unconditionally by the public. He's 91 years old.

[Walleye]

9. He knows now that everything he is doing is wrong, un Christian, and un-American

These Republicans, who went all in on Trump. They don’t know how to turn it around. They are so rigid in their thinking.

[marble falls]

12. He's an arrogant shit and his grandson was in the Iowa legislature (where chuck got his start) and is in the House ...

Wiki

Patrick Grassley (born May 26, 1983) is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he is the grandson of Iowa United States Senator Chuck Grassley. He has served as the Iowa State Representative for its 57th District since 2023, having previously served the state's 17th (2007–2013) and 50th (2013–2023) districts in the Iowa House of Representatives.[1][2] He was elected Speaker of the state's House in 2020.

Patrick Grassley (born May 26, 1983) is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he is the grandson of Iowa United States Senator Chuck Grassley. He has served as the Iowa State Representative for its 57th District since 2023, having previously served the state's 17th (2007–2013) and 50th (2013–2023) districts in the Iowa House of Representatives.[1][2] He was elected Speaker of the state's House in 2020.

The line is: He'll run for his grandfather's Senate seat, when finally, at a 110 years old, Chucky retires.

[Walleye]

18. And a lot of Iowa voters will still think they're voting for his grandfather. Never read the paper or anything.

[marble falls]

19. It's crazy. My family owned a door and window factory in Marion, outside of Cedar Rapids ...

... I lived in Coggon, about 10 miles north of Marion. This during the late eighties till the mid nineties.

There were a lot of Republicans but there was always a tradition of progressive attitudes towards education. I don't remember ever being screamed at in a political discussion. But I have heard that it is most definitely not true anymore.

[Paladin]

11. GOOD. (nt)

[NoMoreRepugs]

17. Wow, chuckiepoo was brave enough to face a whole hundred people?

Chickenshit.