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Sohn: Our lawmakers should own up to town hall anger

People attend a People's Town Hall event Friday, Feb. 24, at the Chattanooga Public Library.
People attend a People's Town Hall event Friday, Feb. 24, at the Chattanooga Public Library.

It’s town hall time again for our senators and representatives.

And once again they seem to be shunning the Tennesseans who want to talk to them about issues such as health care, the Supreme Court, Trump’s Russia links and his suddenly itchy war finger.

Wouldn’t you like to know from Sen. Bob Corker and Sen. Lamar Alexander what was so different about Judge Neal Gorsuch that they were willing to first break 230 years of precedent to deny Judge Merrick Garland a hearing and then support an unprecedented Senate rule change to confirm Gorsuch?

Wouldn’t you like to hear – face to face – from Rep. Chuck Fleischmann why he and Reps. Diane Black, Marsha Blackburn, John Duncan and Phil Roe all signed a letter to President Obama urging him to go to Congress for authorization to use force in Syria yet now they apparently think that shouldn’t apply to President Trump?

Wouldn’t you like to ask Fleischmann, Corker and Alexander why we don’t deserve an independent investigation of Russian interference in our 2016 presidential election?