This could well be a portent of things to come. A few Republican members of Congress seem to be encountering some difficulty facing the residents of the districts that they supposedly represent.
California's Tom McClintock, a supporter of Mister Trump's travel ban largely affecting Muslims, skittered away from a townhall meeting rather than engage his constituents. Concerned citizens can be kinda scary, I guess.
Here's Mike Coffman, from Colorado's 6th District, fleeing a meeting in Aurora last month. The uncertainty of access to healthcare seemed to be foremost on everyone's minds. It was videoed in all its awkward glory, complete with crime scene tape: Public Servant In Flight. Community-minded folks can be frightening!
Finally, just last week, one of my Metro Chicago homedudes, a Republican congressguy named Peter Roskam, abruptly cancelled a meeting with constituents once he found out that a reporter would be present. <gasp> Mr. Roskam, who represents parts of suburban Kane, DuPage, and northwest Cook Counties, was seen cutting a lordly figure while fleeing a group of folks who wanted to discuss the Affordable Care Act. Hurriedly exiting the scene, he scattered a trail of chicken feathers in his wake!
Think 2018, ladies and gents! The Democrats need to flip 24 seats in order to recapture a House majority. Presuming that they can get their act together, the districts represented by the three runaways described above --- California's Fourth, Colorado's Sixth, and Illinois' Sixth should be among those ripe for the plucking. It's a matter of preserving the memories.
