Overview
- Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks faced sustained heckling at an hourlong town hall in Keosauqua that used written audience questions read by a moderator.
- Law enforcement and her security detail removed multiple disruptors, including Democrat Taylor Wettach, who led a chant of “Vote her out.”
- Constituents pressed her on tariffs, immigration enforcement, and health care, and she defended tariffs as a negotiating tool and said ICE is doing its job.
- Outside the venue, supporters of Daniel Angel Meléndez urged the congresswoman to help stop his deportation, and his wife described an unsatisfying meeting with her.
- The event revived backlash after a report that she said in August she would hold town halls “when hell freezes over,” following a period of favoring phone and radio forums.