I arrived home from work today and checked the home voicemail. The first message was from my congressman, Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). His recorded message informed me that there will be a telephone townhall meeting tomorrow night. Around 7:40pm tomorrow night, we’ll get a call and if we want to participate, we just stay on the line.

Aside from the fact that I believe he is violating the Federal Do Not Call list (with which our number is regsitered) twice (tonight and again tomorrow) with this unsolicited information and intrusion into our privacy, I find this rather cowardly. While it dodges the issue of having shills driven in to staff town hall meetings, he doesn’t have to actually face his constituents and answer the hard questions. I’m not about to shout him down as I don’t believe that approach really solves anything. But I do have some serious questions about H.R. 3200 for him. I’m not sure if his phone screening software is capable enough to filter out my number from being allowed to ask a question so we’ll have to see.

Clearly I have plenty of material at my disposal…so I’ll have to choose carefully as I will likely get only one chance to ask a question. I’ll report back on my thoughts about this “townhall” meeting.

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