Congressman Mark Alford
[August 23, 2024]
[….] Big Announcement
We are very excited to announce our upcoming Town Hall on August 31 at 7PM!
We’re looking forward to hearing directly from you, your thoughts, your concerns, and the issue is most important to you.
Join us for meaningful face-to-face conversations and let’s shape our future together.
Please find the time, date, and location below.
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A panel representing local shelters, community resources, the Trails Regional Library, and a local church held an open public town hall this evening at the Trails Regional Library Warrensburg Branch to discuss, explain, and enlighten the community about what they do and what they can’t do for homeless/unhoused individuals in Warrensburg.
A representative from the Trail Regional Library – Warrensburg Branch:
Kansas City media market news coverage:
The rest of the panel:
The town hall (1 hour, 37 minutes):
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It’s a special kind of irony when someone’s business plan is predicated on higher rents and profits, making housing less affordable, and thus helping create the unhoused/homeless issue that they’re complaining about…because business.
There were questions and statements from individuals attending the meeting:
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….And I really want to emphasize that then folks who are unhoused have a huge, huge just wide variety of reasons for being unhoused. Some of them are working, some of them are looking for work, domestic violence victims, there’s a lot of reasons that people become unhoused. Some of them are mentally ill. We don’t have any cure for persistent mental illness, except to take care of them the best that we can.
And trying to lump all of these situations, because we’re talking people that have jobs, they are, they’re living in their car, they’ve got kids that are going to school, they’re trying to do all the right things and they can’t afford housing.
So we can’t allow ourselves to lump them in to this cattle car situation and say all of the homeless can’t come here, we’re gonna ship ’em south of town, we’re gonna ship ’em to some other place. That is a huge, huge danger sign. That is cattle cars. And you should be, we should never go there.
People who are unhoused are human beings and they are citizens of this place. It may not be the most recent place, but they are citizens here. And yes, they pay taxes every time they buy something, every time they have to put gas in their car, every time they have to fix a busted car, yes, they’re paying taxes.
I’m over, over the demonization of people because they fell into the hole that we have been lucky enough not to fall in yet. I’m really over it.
I have worked with the severely mentally challenged. I have had people on moving…try to shove heads through windows. They don’t ask to be that mentally ill. And it’s a minority, but because we don’t have mentally, mental health services at the scale that we need these people get lost.
Warrensburg is a great little town. It cannot become that gated community where we cattle car people out because they don’t look nice.
Nobody’s got a scarlet H on their forehead that tells you that they’re homeless. I’m over it.
These folks [on the panel] are doing an incredible job and there’s more. And they have half the Warrensburg cat ladies here tonight [laughter] and I admire the work that they do, but they know that, that homeless people, sometimes the only thing they have that loves them back is their animal, and yes, they will stay out in the woods to protect that animal. I don’t care if it’s a cat, or a dog, or [inaudible] possum.
I’m over it. We can do better than this. And we do not have to get ugly about it.
These folks deserve our compassion and our attention and help because most people that are homeless aren’t homeless permanently. It’s very short term….
Mark Alford @markalfordkc
Please call in tonight and let’s talk!!!!
[….] 2:55 PM · May 9, 2023
Some of the responses:
No
Do you support sexual assault?
You did great! I appreciate hearing from you and what is going on. I prayed for you and all of yours, along with all the Country’s Leaders.
You can take the stage with MTG but you can’t face the people you supposedly represent. Coward
Mark Alford @markalfordkc
Please come to my office in Raymore Monday would love to meet you in person 10:12 PM · May 9, 2023
Another way of you trying to control your room and your narrative in your little one on one. You can’t do a live town hall because you are petrified you are going to be asked questions you either don’t know or you will be caught in a lie. Face everyone and answer questions.
Hey Mark! Local Kansas Citian, wont be able to call in tonight but do have a question via twitter if I may….. which characteristic of Trump really gets you excited/jazzed? Is it the rapist in him, the fraud, the lies, how he wants to fuck his daughter? Please do let us know!
I did. You didn’t let me ask a question and I can see why. You lied about several things like ‘illegal immigrants’. A caller asked about people crossing our border & you CLEARLY agreed once they cross the border they get a phone, a car, money, everything they want, they get. BS.
ya know i wasn’t sure if you were the kind of patriot i would support. but then i saw the 4 flag emojis, and now i’m like fuck yes, you are just the chucklefuck i should be supportin. yee ha. [….] because i’m a bigger patriot.
Mark Alford @markalfordkc
Unicorns are NOT real.
The sun rises in the east.
What goes up must come down.
Just in case you’re starting to question reality. #bizarroworld 8:59 AM · Apr 6, 2023
Mark Alford (r) doesn’t ever hold open public town halls in his district.
Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].
Some of the responses:
When a local tv news anchor gets seated on the House Armed Services Committee ahead of dozens of military veterans with a career in uniform already behind them.
#bizarroworld
Banning books, getting involved in healthcare decisions, telling folks what to wear and who to love goes against the constitution. Just in case you were wondering.
Says an awful person who will be hosting @RepMTG on April 15!!
Seriously, she’s done & said horrendous things!! Why would you even associate with her?
Alford, this says a lot about you. Nothing good!
Ok fun I’ll go: Criminals ARE indicted
Morning show host is a congressman. Bizarro indeed.
And a second-rate newsreader becomes a congressman!
I started questioning reality when you got elected.
This is how you represent us? Pathetic
And a talking head moves into a district that he has never lived in to win an election. Go back to knobtown. Weren’t you the Mayor there?
Shut up, Mark
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What is bizarre?
And the party of law and order No longer believes in that if their corrupt idol is held accountable. Elections are only rigged if you lose. I used to respect you as a journalist. What a shame…
Biden won a free and fair election in 2020.
Trump cheated on all his wives.
The House Republicans have not proposed a budget.
Books don’t kill people; guns kill people.
Clarence Thomas has received gifts in the tens of thousands and has not reported them.
Important truths.
Again, why the fuck are you popping into my time line? I don’t need your right wing rhetoric harshing my mellow…go away ass hat.
Also yesterday:
Mark Alford @markalfordkc
So good to be with you and your wife and the young Republicans who are the future of our great nation!!!
Senator Denny Hoskins, CPA @DLHoskins
Thank you @markalfordkc for visiting Warrensburg and our @UCMMULES College Republicans. Keep up the good fight in D.C.! @HouseGOP @MissouriGOP @JacomoGOP #moleg
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Are you in the district, Mark? Florida? Just asking.
Mark Alford @markalfordkc
Replying to @angiewong
Thanks so much for attending we attempt to inspire people to greatness and make Americans great again!!! 11:06 AM · Mar 16, 2023
Any open public town halls in the district? Where? When?
Rep. Eric Burlison @RepEricBurlison
Busy week back in the district meeting with local leaders and discussing priorities for Southwest Missouri!
[….] 2:36 PM · Feb 18, 2023
What about some regular folks? Just asking.
The responses:
Hey Eric, is there anyway we can talk? I sent you a message and I think it would benefit Missourians very well.
Okay.
Do you support @RepThomasMassie bill to abolish the department of education?
Okay.
Maybe. Just maybe, you would investigate requirements being made by youth club coaches that their athletes be mRNA shot in order to participate. Just maybe.
Okay.
Currently, Ukraine serves as a shield for NATO and holds the frontlines.
By including Ukraine in NATO, the US could help to promote military interoperability and strengthen defense cooperation between NATO members and Ukraine.
Слава Україні!
An open public town hall in the district would definitely be epic. Heh.
Easy answer. Yes. Donald Trump is no longer the President.
As usual, there is much hilarity in the responses:
I did not know that Trump is President in 2021.
Is he in your world?
Is it considered extremism if someone supports insurrectionists who stormed the US Capital to halt our election?
Apparently not if it’s on January 6th.
He answered the question. You just didn’t understand the answer. You were wasting everyone’s time.
When is your next in person town hall so we can ask you questions (that you will truthfully answer).
So, Vicky – WHO is currently the President of the USA?
Will you answer or dodge?
Um. Yes. that’s extremism. Good lord, the state of the GQP today.
The answer is yes and anyone like him
Your job is to defend Missourians, not Trump.
If they still believe he was re-elected and will be re-instated it’s a form of extremism. Extreme stupidity.
No one dodges questions like you do, Slick Vick. And btw was that the best question you could come up with? How bout “did Trump incite the insurrection?”
Well, DJT continues his attempts to overthrow our democracy, so…
I’d like to ask @RepHartzler if it would be considered grifting if a wealthy congresswoman scammed/scams the federal government out of farm subsidies.
Will you dodge the question?
He answered the question to extent such a stupid question deserves an answer. They are not basing anything on political views. FORMER president Trump is a political figure. To extent he suggests the military be involved in the overthrow of the gov’t that moves beyond political.
Was not aware you were so successful in the whine business.
God what an embarrassment you are. Why don’t you do a town hall in Columbia – we’ll see about dodging questions
Feel some shame, you ignorant flibbertigibbet.
You referencing dodging is hilarious. You are the coward that will not hold a town hall.
Also, trolling for that all important U.S. Senate primary endorsement.
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
Republicans are united in solving the #BidenBorderCrisis.
We’re here on the ground. Where are Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Democrats?
[….] 4:27 PM · May 24, 2021
Heh. No masks?
No time or effort put into an open public town hall in the 4th Congressional District?
As always, the responses are hilarious:
You had years to do something about it and you just made it worse.
There’s that.
They’re doing their jobs. Where are you? At the border? Why is the MO rep dicking about at the border with Mexico and not here, dealing with REAL problems?
Not doing pointless photo ops that solve nothing?
1/6/2021. We remember.
Joe and Kamala are taking care of business not going stunts for photo ops yoy hypocrite.
Are they, were they? Can you show us the republicans immigration and security package they proposed and laid forth a sweeping overhaul of the system and fixed a problem that even Reagan called a crisis 50 yrs ago? Or is that a bill that was to come after their healthcare reform?
You think doing photo ops for your pretend “crisis” is solving anything?
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