JACKSON, Wyo. — Following tense public meetings across Wyoming this month, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman has announced that she will no longer attend in-person town hall meetings due to her safety concerns.
In a press release posted to her website on Tuesday, Hageman stated that she and her staff have been subjected to “credible threats,” noting that following a town hall meeting in Wheatland on March 20, an attendee “initiated a physical confrontation with staff.” She also cited “numerous, credible threatening phone calls and emails” to her offices in Wyoming and Washington D.C.
Hageman’s town hall meeting Laramie earlier this month made national headlines after the crowd heckled her for defending recent actions taken by the Trump administration.
“As the saying goes, ‘This is why we can’t have nice things,’” Hageman said in the release. “I am proud of my record of holding dozens and dozens of town halls – 75 of them in just three years, at least three times in each of Wyoming’s 23 counties. And the only times we have had any problems with safety have been at two of the six held in the last week.”
In-person meetings scheduled for Cheyenne and Torrington have been converted to virtual town hall meetings.
“I am formally calling on Sen. Schumer and his leadership counterpart in the House, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, to denounce their party’s organized disruptors and crime,” Hageman said in the release. “A failure to do so will only further confirm that the left’s radical tactics are no longer on the fringe but the mainstay of the Democratic party and prove once again their disdain for the First Amendment and legitimate political discourse. It is time for them to demand that their partisans stop threatening and intimidating people and causing actual violence before someone gets seriously injured or killed.”
