A Wisconsin woman was escorted out of a town hall hosted by Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in Eau Claire last week after filming organizers blocking Trump supporters from entering the event.
Katrina Patterson, a Wisconsin voter, told Fox News Digital that she attended the town hall with the intention of having Walz address potential cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
However, Patterson, who was registered for the event, was asked to leave before the town hall even began.
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She was met by law enforcement officers and locked outside the venue.
While she was at the event, Patterson filmed organizers preventing three men wearing “Make America Great Again” hats from entering the town hall.
She said she only sat down for a few minutes before she was told to leave as well.
Patterson criticized Walz and the Democratic Party for what she described as hypocrisy.
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“Tim Walz and the Democrats are claiming that my congressman won’t listen to his constituents, but yet we’ve got proof of them blocking Republicans from coming into their town hall,” Patterson said.
“It’s really hypocritical. It makes it abundantly obvious that their town halls aren’t real. For lack of a better word, they’re fake town halls because they only want to hear from Democrats.”
Governor Walz, a former vice-presidential candidate, had been one of the first Democrats to announce town halls in Republican-held congressional districts.
This came after the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), a political committee focused on electing Republicans to the U.S. House, advised against holding town halls due to ongoing disruptions caused by Democratic protesters during President Donald Trump’s second term.
Following the Eau Claire town hall, NRCC spokesman Zach Bannon called the event “political theater” that was designed to engage only Democrats.
“Clearly, this political theater was designed to only engage Democrats with no real interest in listening to voters who rejected their out-of-touch agenda. Yet another embarrassing charade on Walz’s walk of shame,” Bannon told Fox News Digital.
When Walz announced his red state tour, he portrayed the town halls as an opportunity for constituents in Republican districts to make their voices heard.
“I’m hitting the road, traveling to red states across the country to lend a megaphone to the people. Your congressman may not want to listen, but they’re going to hear from us anyway,” Walz stated in a social media post.
Patterson criticized the Democrats for claiming they were willing to listen to all voters while blocking Republicans from attending their town halls.
“They’ve got people going to some of the Republican town halls and intentionally starting chaos and trouble, and then they turn around and block Republicans from going into their town halls. It’s just horrible and hypocritical. It really is,” she said.
She described the town hall experience as feeling like a “secret society,” where Democrats refused to allow Republicans to voice their opinions.
“The only reason they had to kick me out was the fact that I was catching them on camera, doing something wrong that they knew they shouldn’t do,” Patterson added.
Although Patterson was unable to voice her concerns at the Walz town hall, she praised Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin for being “really reachable.”
Patterson said she had no issues getting in touch with him and had participated in one of his virtual town halls.
“Tim Walz and Democrats have been just really running him through the mud and giving him a hard time for doing virtual town halls,” Patterson said.
“I watched one the other day and got to throw in some comments there. I did have one question that didn’t get answered during that one, but I’m just planning to ask him again the next time around.”
The Democratic Party has coordinated efforts to hold “People’s Town Halls” across all 50 states, following disruptions at Republican events that led to the NRCC advising against in-person town halls.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Democratic state parties held 22 events in 13 states during the first week, promoting the town halls as “open, inclusive and built to amplify your voice.”
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This is just more proof that the Democrats do not have a message that resonates with the people, so they have to manipulate the people to make it appear as though it does. It is so sad to see a political party stoop so low that they would do such underhanded tricks as force out potential voters because they do not like their looks or them filming. Truly sad indeed!