Sen. Wyden addresses packed town hall in Hillsboro as political uncertainty brews in D.C.

[0rganism]

Source: The Oregonian

Hundreds of people, some bearing signs, lined up along the snowy block in front of Hillsboro’s J.W. Poynter Middle School at noon Saturday.

And many of them were about to find out that their efforts to get in were in vain. At least 1,200 people had already maxed out the school gym’s fire safety capacity, and staff outside the school doors were met with yells of protest when they announced they would have to turn people away.

But Saturday’s turnout wasn’t for a basketball game or other school event. It was for an annual town hall hosted by U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. It was a stark change from August, at his last town hall in the county, which fewer than 200 people attended.

In other years, people may have asked the senator about a range of issues impacting Oregon. But Saturday’s town hall was dominated by a single topic: the newly sworn-in administration of President Donald J. Trump.

Read more: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/02/sen-wyden-addresses-packed-town-hall-in-hillsboro-as-political-uncertainty-brews-in-dc.html

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Here's some Democratic outreach, for those of us wondering where it went. BTW, I live in Hillsboro and this article was the first I'd heard of the event, article says it's not usually this well-attended which may be part of the reason. Anyway, it seems like the population is stirring towards widespread outrage and might be ready to activate fairly soon. By the way, this happened during recent snowfall, always a real damper on public activities around here.

[gab13by13]

1. All Congressional Democrats need to do this.

[DBoon]

2. If you have a Democratic Congressperson

go to their website, send them a message.

Note the incredibly successful town hall by Wyden and suggest they hold one in their home district.

[nilram]

12. Ditto if you have a Republicanner one.

A lot of them, reportedly, dislike what's going on, so maybe they also could grow a spine with some pressure.

[zorbasd]

16. Reportedly, yes key word

But actually, they're all in on this, ignore the fake hemhawing they present to their Democratic colleagues.

[nilram]

17. Interesting thought.

I'll take it under advisement. Maybe the Dems like the situation too, then. After all, many of them will profit from it.

At some point you have to presume someone is telling the truth.

[magicarpet]

3. This is needed big time.

Communicate with constituents, get out infront of the messaging of issues, take an offensive (first out of the gate) stance with the narrative as we deal with the Nazis.

Good job Senator Wyden.

[neverforget]

4. Senator Jeff Merkley has a townhall at Clackamas Community College, Feb 23 at 630pm.

I'm gathering as many people as I can to attend it.

[NoMoreRepugs]

6. Our 250+ reps and senators in DC cannot do it by themselves.

There’s nothing wrong with trumpeting that msg across the country.

[jeffreyi]

7. An attendee posted this:

Parkrose Permaculture:

?si=VrXyQCuy7QvkZriu

[nilram]

11. This could be it's own post

Most, if not all, of her points are relevant to any state in the country.

[0rganism]

14. Agree entirely

She raises concerns shared by many DUers.

[bhikkhu]

8. I was at a Wyden Town Hall in my little city a little over a year ago

He'd come back to the state to do two or three town halls, and he stopped at mine to speak to about 50 people, and answer questions. I don't remember much of it, except that he was pretty generous with his time, and if there was something he couldn't answer or that someone needed to look into he had his staff take notes to do some legwork and follow-up, and to keep him informed. It was pretty interesting to see an actual working politician work. If they were all like that, things might be a little better.

[Initech]

9. Trump is a chaos agent.

That's all he does.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. Self-admitted 10 years ago. "I love chaos."

[Hassler]

10. I'm happy to have Wyden as one of my senators.

He's repeatedly visited every county in Oregon throughout his career in the Senate. It's a big state, and there are a lot of Magastan counties in Oregon

[Owens]

15. Not "Administration" REGIME

This is the Trump Musk REGIME

[calimary]

18. Yes indeed. Including one guy who got less than 50% of the vote,

and another guy who never even bothered to run for office. He just found the right "coattails" to which to hitch his wagon.