(21 Mar 2025)
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Egg Harbor City, New Jersey – 20 March 2025
1. Resident Susan Coll-Guedes speaking UPSOUND (English):
"What it looks like, it’s not.. I lost my job teaching when COVID happened and by a miracle, I’m now the assistant professor at the College of New Jersey, right with a 90 minute commute from here. I live here, we are part of your community. We are not bad people. This is not waste. It’s not fraud. It’s real. So please, please, I want everyone to know that we need to. We need to not be cruel and not snuff out people’s lives in a most cruel and heinous way by causing our tired family to collapse. Thank you." ++SHOT CONTINUES++
2. Sen. Andy Kim approached Susan Coll-Guedes and gave her a hug
STORYLINE:
New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim implored a standing-room-only town hall on Thursday to get involved in politics as a way to push back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s agenda.
The Democrat opened a three-day tour of GOP-held House districts on Thursday, visiting a town in the southern New Jersey district not far from where Trump’s casino empire in Atlantic City rose and fell decades ago.
Kim’s meetings come as the out-of-power Democrats struggle to find a message and a method for pushing back on the president’s quick-paced policy rollouts. It also coincides with word from the Republican House speaker to his members to skip townhalls after an onslaught of protests, though some GOP members are forging ahead with constituent meetings.
Many of the questioners expressed frustration at cuts to government agencies and the prospect for cuts to Medicaid in particular. An emotional moment unfolded when Susan Coll-Guedes of Galloway said she worried her 24-year-old son with Down’s Syndrome who relied on Medicaid to cover nursing could lose care if the service is cut. Kim approached her and gave her a hug after she finished speaking.
“We are not bad people. This is not waste. It’s not fraud. It’s real,” she said.
Kim was elected last year, but took office early because of the seat opened by Bob Menendez’s resignation after he was convicted on federal corruption charges. Kim was first elected to the House in 2018 in a GOP-leaning district that Trump carried twice.
The town hall had an estimated capacity of 150, according to the senator’s office. There were about two dozen people outside, watching on their phones. Some of them they were turned away at the door because of a lack of space.
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