Posted on 03/24/2025 5:52:08 PM PDT by logi_cal869
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman walked right into a hornet’s nest Wednesday night.
More than 500 people packed into the Gryphon Theatre at the Laramie Civic Center for her town hall, with at least 75% there to oppose her, a startling dynamic in the deeply Republican state of Wyoming.
It continued a trend of Democrats and those who oppose President Donald Trump and his policies, and Hageman’s support of them, challenging her during a series of her events over the past week.
Things in Laramie turned ugly from the get-go, with some people screaming profanities and flashing the middle finger to Hageman as soon as she took the stage.
But Hageman would not back down, staying on stage for more than 45 minutes and telling the audience that they were behaving in an embarrassing manner.
At one point she urged them to stop screaming or they might have a heart attack.
Hageman told Cowboy State Daily after the event that what happened Wednesday is common in college towns across America these days.
“It’s what happens in those communities. They’re not capable of listening to someone with a different opinion,” she said. “They’re too immature to have a dialogue.”
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Wilhelms and Albany County Democratic Party Chair Klaus Halbsgut both promoted the event beforehand as an opportunity to conduct civil discourse with Hageman and let her answer their questions better than a similarly raucous town hall in Rock Springs.
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They look like a couple of Muppets.
Democracy is mob rule.
The real story is that they tried to bully her off the stage and she didn’t budge - they have no power - just noise and crass behavior...
That was my interpretation, if not for the tone of the article and mocking her for ‘talking down’ to the audience.
It does look like this is their new tactic. More to come.
No wonder the polls show them losing the youth vote,
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-losing-gen-z/
That was my interpretation, if not for the tone of the article and mocking her for ‘talking down’ to the audience.
It does look like this is their new tactic. More to come.
No wonder the polls show them losing the youth vote,
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-losing-gen-z/
They have to get smarter about screening and location. Making these spectacles is all the rats have. That and an army of hack judges
Buddy, if youve EVER, stayed in Laramie you would know what i am talking about.
They are fascists. They co-ordinate these takeovers of Republicans at any speaking event and stop any dialogue.
They claim to be for free speech, yet prevent anyone else with a different viewpoint from speaking...
I will forever support her for that alone...
In my 74 years I’ve been in worse places than Laramie.
Look up Phu Bai, Vietnam or Piedras Negras, Texas, to name a few.
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