{"id":6745,"date":"2017-02-22T18:24:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T23:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=6745"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:49:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:49:10","slug":"missing-hultgren-il-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=6745","title":{"rendered":"Missing: Hultgren IL-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that long ago I wrote about<a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=6722\"> my Congressman\u2019s attempts to kill me<\/a>. \u00a0Since then I\u2019ve joined in an ongoing game of \u201cWhere\u2019s Randy?\u201d with many \u2014\u00a0oh, so many \u2014\u00a0of my fellow residents of IL-14. \u00a0We\u2019ve been calling his office, we\u2019ve been visiting his office, we\u2019ve been relentlessly commenting on his Facebook page with several concerns, but one unified message: \u00a0When\u2019s your town hall Randy?<\/p>\n<p>There has been a deafening silence in response to all of our Facebook pleas for a town hall. \u00a0Our calls to his office have yielded an array of answers from \u201cno news on a town hall yet,\u201d to \u201cwe\u2019re looking for a venue, just let me take your name and number and we\u2019ll get back to you when it\u2019s scheduled,\u201d to (and I am NOT making this up) \u201che\u2019s leaving the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just now Randy the Elusive took the cowardly step of posting a recorded video to his Facebook page saying \u201cI&#8217;m answering your most pressing healthcare questions from your recent phone calls, emails and meetings with me. Take a look.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes indeed, please do take a look at the soon to be former Congressman Randy\u00a0Hultgren reading cherry-picked letters and spouting vague talking points.<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re done with that, and if you are at all near the Chicagoland area, please do clear your calendar for <a href=\"http:\/\/hultgren.house.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/hultgren-to-join-veterans-forum-at-geneva-american-legion\">this event on the afternoon of March 3.<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Guess Randy will be back from Africa by then. \u00a0We are working on a way to, er, greet Randy appropriately without disrupting this event for the Veterans attending, so if you think you can make it, please say so in a comment, or message me and I\u2019ll respond with information about that.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, beyond spreading word of Randy\u2019s cowardice I\u2019m at a loss for how to get him to face his constituents, so any suggestions would be welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that long ago I wrote about my Congressman\u2019s attempts to kill me. \u00a0Since then I\u2019ve joined in an ongoing game of \u201cWhere\u2019s Randy?\u201d with many \u2014\u00a0oh, so many \u2014\u00a0of my fellow residents of IL-14. \u00a0We\u2019ve been calling his office, we\u2019ve been visiting his office, we\u2019ve been relentlessly commenting on his Facebook page with several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[2935,2072,2917,9,960,316,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6745"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6748,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6745\/revisions\/6748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}