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Thu Aug 17, 2017, 04:58 AM Aug 2017

Cory Gardner finally held an in-person town hall. Here's what happened.

“Senator, you suck!” “Party hack!”

Those were just a few of the epithets hurled at Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner during his first in-person town hall in more than a year, held on the campus of Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs.

For more than an hour, Gardner took questions from a largely hostile crowd of hundreds about health care, climate change, net neutrality, hate groups, money in politics and even whether legal marijuana users should be able to own guns.

The first-term senator from Yuma who is up for re-election in 2020 opened with the recent racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Over the weekend, he was among the first Republicans in Congress to demand that President Trump issue a stronger condemnation of the white supremacists who marched on the University of Virginia’s campus.

“I don’t know about you but I think it’s about time that asses with Nazi flags go back to their hole,” Gardner said during Tuesday morning’s town hall. “We will not stand for it.”

Read more: http://www.coloradoindependent.com/166673/cory-gardner-town-hall-colorado

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