(23 Apr 2025)
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Northwood, Iowa – 23 April 2025
1. Town hall attendee yelling
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Grassley, (R) Iowa:
“You see that people have very strong feelings, but you heard me also say in the beginning that a lot of us have been advised not to have these town meetings because it gives a forum for people to exert disagreement, sometimes very strong disagreement with what’s going on in Washington.”
3. Town hall attendee asks Grassley questions
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Smeby, farmer:
“It kind of saddens me. I mean, it’s good to get your point across, but you know that’s sometimes that’s a lack of respect going both ways and you know we have to we have to learn to respect the questions and we need to learn to respect the answer whether you like that answer or not.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Keith Olson, retired farmer:
“Well, they’re expressing their true feelings. That’s all I can say. I mean, they are telling people in government what’s going on out here and how they feel.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Grassley, (R) Iowa:
“The bottom line of it is that the language you heard here, and I heard, was stronger than it’s been in any place I have and I don’t think it’s typical of Worth County. It’s not typical of most town meetings I have, and let’s just say this is an outlier.”
7. Town hall attendees arguing
STORYLINE:
Sen. Chuck Grassley, (R) Iowa, held a town hall on Wednesday, April 23, in Northwood, Iowa, where arguments erupted between attendees.
Grassley says that the profanity-laced town halls are not typical.
“You see that people have very strong feelings, but you heard me also say in the beginning that a lot of us have been advised not to have these town meetings because it gives a forum for people to exert disagreement, sometimes very strong disagreement with what’s going on in Washington,” Grassley said.
Mark Smeby, a farmer, says that the behavior saddens him.
“It kind of saddens me. I mean, it’s good to get your point across, but you know that’s sometimes that’s a lack of respect going both ways and you know we have to we have to learn to respect the questions and we need to learn to respect answer whether you like that answer or not,” Smeby said.
But Grassley thinks that what’s happening at these halls it not common for Worth County.
“The bottom line of it is that the language you heard here, and I heard, was stronger than it’s been in any place I have and I don’t think it’s typical of Worth County. It’s not typical of most town meetings I have, and let’s just say this is an outlier,” Grassley said.
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