A spokesperson for Congressman Paul Ryan, Conor Sweeney, told The Rochester Citizen that the protesters sitting in in Congressman Paul Ryan’s Kenosha, Wisconsin office have been offered a conference call with Congressman Ryan. When asked whether that was true, Shanon Molina, who is an unemployed constituent of Ryan’s said that they were not offered a personal conference call with the Congressman, but they were offered to be able to listen in to a teleconference town hall with hundreds of other people on the call where she may or may not be able to address a question to the Congressman.
Sweeney told us that the people sitting in at Congressman Ryan’s office have asked for a meeting with the Congressman and that they were offered a conference call, “one that they were not interested in.” Sweeney also told us that a scheduling request for September has been offered for the past four days and that the protesters have refused to fill out a form. According to Shanon Molina, the protesters were asked to fill out a scheduling request form and were given a fifteen minute deadline to fill out the form and that after the form was completed and the fifteen minute deadline passed, that they were asked to clear Congressman Ryan’s office.
According to the Kenosha Police Department, the police have been contacted by Congressman Ryan’s office, but they have not been asked to arrest the protesters since currently they are not doing anything illegal. The spokesperson for the Kenosha Police did tell us that if the protesters did not leave when asked, they could be charged with trespassing. The protesters have also been asked by the Congressman’s staff not to use video recorders while they are in the office. The police were not aware of any law that addresses video recording while in the Congressman’s office.
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