Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Richvale, was met by a crowd often noisy with opposition at a town hall Monday morning, though he didn’t walk off the stage this time.
It was nearly a full house, with a representative for the Chico Elks Lodge estimating about 400 were in attendance. Some of the most intense moments of the morning included one man’s comment that he hoped the congressman would die — drawing mostly boos from the audience — and one woman being escorted out for continuous yelling.
However, the congressman said by the end the audience was “spirited” but “pretty good,” not as raucous as at Oroville’s town hall in April. The meeting went a little past the allotted time, from 8-9 a.m.
Some of the top questions residents wanted their representative to answer included why he supported cuts to health care coverage, backed tax breaks for the wealthy, and refuses to acknowledge impacts of climate change?
