Sen. Roger Marshall, I hope you read this.
I don’t know how else to reach you, since your phone lines have been jammed for months and you fled the last town hall I attended.
I want to help you avoid a repeat of what happened recently in Oakley. Like dozens of other Kansans, I drove a long way to be at your event.
Presumably you held it four hours away from where most of your constituents live for the same reason you kept the time and place off your website: to keep people from showing up.
But the details leaked online, and so your constituents made the effort to meet you.
I did not know any of the other attendees, except for my family members, but we obviously weren’t paid agitators.
We were Kansans, the same as the locals, and there for the same reason: to hear your answers to some very predictable questions.
Imagine our surprise when you turned on your heel and walked out on us.
In the little time you gave us, you insulted us, lied to us and tried to pit us against one another.
For example, you opened your speech by reading a script you said was “from my heart.”
You painted yourself as an ally of Ukraine and told us that you “begged” the Biden administration to support them.
You did not mention that you have voted against humanitarian aid to Ukraine since 2022, and did not explain why the night before your town hall you posted in social media: “Not another penny.”
I would have been very interested to hear why you split from Sen. Jerry Moran, who understands that aid dollars are spent in Kansas to buy food and supplies for our allies. Instead, we got a canned, partisan attack on Joe Biden — but you voted against aid, not him.
Blamed measles death on immigrants
When a Kansan mentioned the recent preventable measles death of an unvaccinated American child, you blamed it on immigrants.
