Constituents left him an empty chair in Corning in 2025. In February 2026 the community station in Jamestown published a piece saying his office repeatedly failed to notify them of press events in their own county. The man who stood up at that empty-seat town hall is now his opponent.
In 2025 he said 'there's been no communication' and called the people asking 'left-wing liberals' who are 'mad because Trump won.' On July 27, 2026 his opponent invited him to four public forums. A week later, the opponent's campaign said, there had been no reply.
A billboard, an empty-chair town hall organizers say drew 500 people, and a website called WhereIsWilliamTimmons.com. He dismissed the town halls as 'staged political pep rallies' and never showed up — and now he says he can't wait to leave.
Cleveland.com says both of his opponents had already released platforms while Ramaswamy relied on attack ads — until it refused to stop asking. He has never held elected office.
Ten years without an in-person town hall. Nearly three times the median rate of missed roll call votes. Declined an interview. And a district so red he doesn't have to answer any of it.
More than 100 people protested outside his Lakeland office in March 2025. Franklin's answer to in-person town halls is a phone call his office runs — and the Ledger found his office does not appear to post recordings of them.
Caroline Stevenson organized the first protest in February 2025. Fifty-two consecutive weeks later, French Hill has not held the in-person town hall they're asking for. He does his by telephone.
Congress was in recess and the congressman wasn't at his Warner Robins office. So constituents put a blue blazer on a folding chair and asked it about Medicaid, Robins Air Force Base, and pecan tariffs. Nobody from Scott's office came outside.
Betty Redd-Mendez cares for her brother, son and father in Wasilla. She spent weeks arranging coverage so she could go ask her senator about the Medicaid cuts he voted for. He refused to speak with her.