Rep. Mark Alford stopped mid-sentence during a Harrisburg town hall to address a woman in the audience, asking her to stand if she wanted to yell. The woman's remark was unintelligible, and Alford reacted with a sarcastic comeback: "OK, if you didn't want to hear my lies, why did you come here?" He then attempted to correct himself by asking, "If you don't want to hear anything I say, why did you come here?" Alford's tour had earlier encountered a hostile crowd in Harrisonville, with constituents criticizing his work, questioning his Christian values while supporting spending cuts, and using profane rebukes. Other Republican lawmakers have faced similar hostile town halls recently.
The woman's comment was unintelligible, but the congressman was visibly put off by her remark and fired off with what he may have thought was a witty comeback, but turned out to be a brutal self-own. OK, if you didn't want to hear my lies, why did you come here? Alford said. The congressman quickly tried to recover, saying, If you don't want to hear anything I say, why did you come here? All right?
Alford's tour got off to a rocky start earlier this week, when KSHB 41 reported, Most of the 55 people in the back room at the Apple Barrel Restaurant inside Harrisonville's Sapp Brothers gas station seemed upset with Alford and his work in Washington. One man admonished Your job as Congress is to check and balance our president. There's been no checks and balances at all.
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