May 30, 2017 02:36 PM UTC

BREAKING: Cory Gardner Holds Recess Town Hall!

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• by: Colorado Pols

Unfortunately most Coloradans missed out, as South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reports:

South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo held a series of meetings Monday with visiting U.S. lawmakers, during which they reaffirmed a robust alliance, his ministry said.

Han met with Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), head of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, at his office, hours after North Korea fired another ballistic missile…

Gardner was quoted as telling Han that the Capitol Hill’s support for and assistance with the alliance will continue.

Sen. Cory Gardner’s junket to South Korea during the congressional recess makes sense on the one hand, as his role on the Foreign Relations Committee puts diplomacy with South Korea firmly in Gardner’s wheelhouse. On the other hand, taking diplomatic junkets to Asia when you’re the only elected federal official from Colorado in either party who has not held a public forum with Colorado voters since Donald Trump took office looks really bad–particularly to Coloradans wondering why Gardner is afraid to face them, but not afraid of visiting the world’s most militarized frontier.

Last time we checked, South Korea doesn’t elect Senators from Colorado…