John Rutherford has been in office for ten years and hasn't held a single in-person town hall meeting. When his own constituents begged him to hold one, he said they would just "scream and holler, and act like fools," and offered to meet voters three or four at a time in his private office instead. He spent forty years as a cop walking into tough situations, but he's terrified of facing the people who elected him — and even his own Republican primary opponent says he's only out to help himself.
Read the full story: Ten Years, Zero Town Halls. Now John Rutherford's Own Republican Challenger Is Running Against His Absence.
