Wütende Wähler in Florida halten „leere Stuhl“ -Wengen für abwesende Republikaner
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/29/empty-chair-town-hall-republicans-florida
Wütende Wähler in Florida halten „leere Stuhl“ -Wengen für abwesende Republikaner
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/29/empty-chair-town-hall-republicans-florida
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Maga destroyed Florida.
**TL;DR**: Angry voters are holding „empty chair“ town halls as GOP lawmakers avoid public meetings. Republicans, advised against in-person events after viral confrontations, face backlash over federal cuts and Trump policies. Protesters disrupted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s event; others booed GOP members. In Florida, Rep. Kat Cammack, avoiding town halls since 2021, was criticized at symbolic gatherings where constituents voiced concerns about Social Security, research funding, and farm aid. Cammack dismissed the events as „performative.“
„Florida voters hosting town halls like: ‚Just waiting for our politicians to show up — they’re still stuck in traffic… or maybe on vacation'“
Empty chair provided more substance and guts than the GOPers who were meant to fill them. POANG 2026
It’s not like the party has to listen to the voters if elections themselves are being phased out, which given the recent police state policies, seems more likely than ever.
I’ve lived here since the 80s, and we’ve had a Democrat US representative, we had Democrat governors, Democrat senators but Florida Republicans have gerrymandered the s*** out of the state in the Florida, legislature has become a rubber stamp for authoritarians, like DeSantis.
You guys remember when Clint Eastwood yelled at an empty chair and pretended it was Obama?
Weird that Florida is bright red and yet people are upset that the thing they wanted ain’t going so well
And yet they will still vote for anyone with an R next to their name on the ballot, and speak with disdain about anyone with a D next to their name…that those Ds are communist/unqualified/not Christian
If they think they are mad now….wait until hurricane season starts in June….and they can’t get reliable info, relief aid…..or empathy from this horrible administration.
Quit voting against your own self-interests. Bush said it best, don’t get fooled again
When you’re afraid of your angry base because you enabled a radical section of your party that became the majority….
Outside of Gainesville there are a number of prisons. The klan also still has friends there.
Can still see a red hat there lmaoo
“Angry Florida voters hold ‘empty chair’ town halls for absent Republicans” and then vote for the same Republicans again in the next election.
If the dem politicians were smart, they’d take those chairs.
And they will come out in record numbers to vote for these same republicans again in the next election.
Who cares? Why should these republicans show up to anything? These people have made it clear that they will NEVER vote differently. So who cares?
I’d have sympathy, but that would require that they voted for something I sympathize with
Grassley is a POS but at least he has the balls to hold town halls in his 90’s. A lot of these representatives are so pathetic.
They should run the campaign ads of the absent representative while staring at an empty chair to really show how full of shit they are.
They voted for this, though, right?
They voted for this. Project 2025 was clear in malice.
In a state thst is run and owned by Republicans.
I am so glad I moved out of Florida back in2018. The STD capital The Villages was a sign of the hate and hypocrisy that was taking over in that swampland. They are getting what they voted for and when the storms hit they can rebuild out of their own pockets because FEMA is Socialism.
Way too much support for racism is going to destroy that place. So Sad. There are some really good people there but, so out numbered by assholes.
Ah, the gestalt method.
Lmao all these bullshit ass protest will lead to nothing
Hey Florida.. you’re to blame.
And in a couple years those same voters will vote for Republicans again. Lol.