(23 Apr 2025)
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++WARNING: EXPLETIVES THROUGHOUT EDIT++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Centralia, Washington – 22 April 2025
1. Washington Democratic Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez speaking then interrupted by person yelling during town hall ++EXPLETIVES++
2. Person continues yelling until he is removed by law enforcement officers. ++EXPLETIVES++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Salvner, town hall participant:
"A complete failure to answer questions honestly and earnestly, circle talking to waste time, and that’s really all it’s been."
4. Man yelling at congresswoman
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Salvner, town hall participant:
"We have every right to be upset. That’s what these are for, is so that we can discuss with our representative what our feelings are, especially if she’s not doing what we voted her to do."
6. Various of people at town hall ++EXPLETIVES++
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Oxford, town hall participant:
"The town hall was, sadly, what I expected it to be on a lot of levels. I expected Marie to skirt the issue, typical politician move, for them to control the questions and not let people really voice their opinions. I knew there was gonna be anger and we definitely saw that here tonight."
8. Gluesenkamp Perez on stage talking about SAVE ACT, then audience members replying
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Salvner, town hall participant:
"I have a distinct issue with the congresswoman. First of all, when you call a bill, a train wreck bill like the Save Act was, and then you voted for it on two different occasions, calling it, oh, it’s not going to pass or I’m trying to get political capital. We don’t know that it’s going to not pass. It’s still in the Senate."
10. UPSOUND (English) Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez, D- Washington:
"I think there’s this kind of toxic narrative that like democracy is a consumer product that you can buy. It’s not, it is something that you make. It is something exists in all of us coming together, engaging in civil dialog about what it is that we really want. At the end of the day, what do we want? "
++ENDS ON UPSOUND++
STORYLINE:
Tempers flared at a town hall hosted by Washington Democratic Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez on Tuesday, with one person taken away by police officers.
Glusenkamp Perez flipped a GOP stronghold in southwest Washington with a campaign that focused on bread-and-butter issues, held the first of several town halls Tuesday with voters in her district.
But the second-term congresswoman has run into opposition from Democratic voters because she has sided with Republicans on several issues in D.C. and that was apparent at her town hall in a community college in Centralia with several outbursts from people in the audience.
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