Constituents have been asking Mike Turner for a public town hall since 2017. He has called them a 'fraudulent group' and 'radical groups.' Now his opponent has asked him to debate, and he changed the subject again.
He won't hold an in-person town hall because they get 'overrun by organized protests.' Then he told a hometown paper that protesters are paid — citing nicer-looking signs and unnamed 'United States intelligence.'
"Let's pause for a moment, so I can read you a statement of Rep. Lee's views." When they asked what Lee herself thought, they were told to sign up for her newsletter. As of August 2026, her mobile office hours page still lists no dates at all.
In June 2026, about 70 people in Evansville held a town hall for a congressman who didn't come and never answered the invitation. It was the latest round of a pattern that started his first spring in office.
His February 2025 Orange County Register column ran under the headline "DOGE is doing what must be done to protect taxpayers." When protesters showed up at his Palm Desert office, he said: "I'm used to it. It's just another day in paradise." He has still not held an in-person town hall.
In 2024, when she needed the job, Fedorchak debated five times. In 2026, as the incumbent, she refused to debate her primary opponent, skipped the state party convention, and defended never having held a single in-person town hall. Her challenger promised to hold them.
Baird's constituents have been asking where he is since at least 2024. He skipped a candidate forum, skipped the town hall they held for him, and never answered the reporters who asked. His own financial disclosure shows he found time for three privately funded overseas trips in a single year — and LegiStorm ranked his office among the five worst in the House for keeping staff.
About 400 constituents packed a Grand Junction church in February 2025 to ask their new congressman questions. He never answered the invitation. Asked why, he said he wasn't interested in 'political theater' and pointed at George Soros — then promised town halls. He has done them by telephone ever since.
In a closed-door meeting, the NRCC chairman advised his members to swap in-person town halls for tele-town halls and Facebook Lives. Then he held one himself — 50 minutes, 11 screened questions, and a Medicaid denial he voted to disprove 72 days later.