Facing a packed auditorium and raucous crowd, Republican Congressman Tom McClintock on Saturday defended his party’s national agenda and voiced strong support for President Donald Trump’s disputed executive actions to scale back Obamacare, ban refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries and build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Vote him out,” hundreds of demonstrators chanted outside the Tower Theatre in downtown Roseville, the Republican-heavy population center of McClintock’s sprawling congressional district. Inside the theater, more than than 200 people gathered for a town-hall event hosted by McClintock.
Attendees, carrying signs that read “Resist,” “Dump Tom McTrump,” and “Climate change is real,” repeatedly pressed McClintock to denounce Republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, acknowledge the science supporting the human causes of climate change, and oppose Trump’s executive order temporarily banning refugee admissions to the U.S.
Meanwhile, in at least four cities of West Virginia, protesters showed up in at least four cities to oppose Sen. Shelley Moore Capito’s support for Betty DeVos, Pr*sident Trump’s choice for secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
In Denver, several dozen resisters organized by the American Federation of Teachers and Denver Federation of Teachers appeared outside Republican Sen. Cory Gardner’s office to protest his support for DeVos.
Gardner has riled people with claims that people who are emailing and calling his office urging him not to vote for DeVos are “paid protesters.”
And in Janesville, Wisconsin, hometown of House Speaker Paul Ryan, to challenge for his stance favoring draconian immigration laws and the proposed wall on the Mexican border. WKOW-TV reported that 500 people had peacefully marched to Ryan’s office to protest the Muslim travel ban.
No arrests or acts of violence were reported at any of the protests.
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