July 10, 2012 08:08 PM UTC

Why Won't Coffman Talk to the People He Represents?

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• by: ColoradoFairShare

( – promoted by ClubTwitty)

For more than six weeks, since May 21, Rep. Mike Coffman’s constituents have been asking him for a Town Hall in Aurora so they can talk to him about the issues that matter to them. There are now more than 500 signatures on a petition that states, “We have been trying to reach Rep. Coffman and give him the opportunity to tell us how he will represent us — the 99% of his constituents who are not part of the wealthiest 1%.

We have called his local constituent office and his D.C. office.  We have tried to reach Rep. Coffman at places across his district.  But we haven’t had any luck tracking him down.

We have made ourselves available to him. Now it’s his turn to make himself available to us — his constituents.

Specifically, we want Rep. Coffman to host a Town Hall in Aurora. This would allow current and prospective constituents to know what kind of representative he is and what kind of representative he will be for all of Colorado’s 6th Congressional District.”

But Rep Coffman hasn’t responded, even when constituent Thomas Delon, an Air Force and Coast Guard veteran, personally delivered the petition to his office. Since Rep. Coffman won’t meet with his constituents, and is never in his office, his constituents have tried finding him in his district, documented in a series of “Where’s Mike?” videos.

According to Wanda, an Aurora senior who relies on Medicare and wants to know why Mike Coffman supports the Ryan budget that eliminates Medicare as we know it,

“I’m Wanda, Mike Coffman’s constituent, who’s in the videos.  I’ve been trying to talk to my congressman for six months.  I’m on Medicare and I want to know where he stands.  

I’ve called his DC office, his Colorado office, and checked his website.  He hasn’t scheduled any public appearances for people like me.  I’ve been by his office and left my card so that he could call me.  More than 500 constituents have signed a petition asking Rep. Coffman to hold a town hall and we gave that to his office as well.  He still hasn’t responded.

Congressman knock on my door all the time, so after a number of attempts to talk to Rep. Coffman, I knocked on his.  He works for us and he should be willing to talk to us.”

So the question remains – why won’t Mike Coffman talk to the people he represents? When will he hold a Town Hall and answer their questions?