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- For Rep. Ed Perlmutter, Colorado Democrat, that meant
holding court outside the King Soopers grocery store here Saturday
behind a 6-foot wall of bottled water, blocked from view of roughly 400
voters in a parking lot.
"He's in there hiding,"
said John Frantum of Denver, who opposes the proposed expansion of
government-provided health care. "He should have been out here with a
bullhorn once he saw the writing on the wall."
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Rep. Jared Polis, a Democrat, was easier to spot outside Vic's Coffee
Shop in Boulder. He opted to meet his constituents one at a time and
was calling out numbers, butcher-style, to the packed crowd of several
hundred.
Polis
spokeswoman Lara Cottingham said the congressman was using the
one-on-one format because of the sensitive nature of some of the health
care questions he would hear.
Lawmakers who still go the usual town-hall route have faced
name-calling and finger-jabbing across the country. Some lawmakers have
found crowds so unruly that they canceled their events on the
spot. [Article]
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