Voters in Gainesville and High Springs, Florida, a rural area north of the city, held empty chair town halls this past week after Cammack declined to hold a town hall after numerous requests.

At a 25 April empty chair town hall in Gainesville, Florida, several constituents, which included retired federal workers and teachers, expressed frustration with a lack of response from Cammack’s office and several cited promises from her office that a town hall would be scheduled in April 2025.

“People are afraid. They’re celebrating when their social security check shows up because they’re afraid it might not,” said Jenn Powell, co-chair of the Alachua County Labor Coalition, and one of the organizers of the town hall. “So while Kat Cammack is not listening to her constituents, we decided to have a town hall without her, and will deliver the forms of questions and video to her office.”

  • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    remember when clint eastwood argued with an empty chair, in place of obama, because he wanted to have a performative version of creating an argument to win while in the shower? Well turns out the empty chairs, where someone is actually supposed to be to hear out their constituents’ concerns, is the republicans. However, people outside of that group knew that all along.