Paul Ryan Spent His Entire Recess Avoiding His Constituents

For the second time in three months, House Speaker Paul Ryan went on recess, like his
fellow members of Congress, but he did not hold a single town hall meeting during this
recess.
Now, for somebody like Paul Ryan, who currently holds the lowest approval rating of any member
of Congress, it would make sense to go out and talk to your constituents and explain
to them why you're doing the horrible things that you're doing, or even better, listen
to your constituents and find out what they actually want you to be doing.
But no, once again Paul Ryan decided that he didn't need to spend any time with the
voters, and instead, he wanted to spend time with his wealthy fund raisers.
Back in February, during the Presidents Day recess, Paul Ryan raised a ton of money over
a nine-day span, a couple hundred thousand dollars just in February.
Now, this was before all of the horribleness with the American Healthcare Act and all of
the scandals involving Donald Trump that Paul Ryan refuses to acknowledge.
Obviously, Paul Ryan needs to go back to his donors and say, "Look.
I know things look bad, but if you don't give me money, I'm not going to last as Speaker
of the House," and that is absolutely true.
To date, so far in 2017, Paul Ryan has already raised over $17 million.
The only question at this point is, is that enough?
Now, we saw last week in the Kansas special election where a far left Berniecrat Democrat
almost beat a Republican in a very red district with almost no money, no help from the DNC,
no help from the State Democratic Party, and only a few phone calls made from the DCCC
to help out this candidate, and he closed a 20 point gap between he and his opponent.
Now, Paul Ryan understands this, and he understands that money may not be everything in the upcoming
midterm elections in 2018.
That's why he's spending more time with his donors than he is with his constituents.
As we've seen, that is not a winning strategy anymore.
For years Republicans have thought that they could just meet with their donors, get some
money, maybe go out make a stump speech or two, and that would be enough to calm the
voters into thinking that they're actually on their side.
Not anymore.
The voters in Wisconsin have demanded that Paul Ryan come back home, hold a town hall,
and actually listen to the people who put him in office.
Instead, he chooses to go on vacation.
Everybody needs a break every now and then.
There's nothing wrong with that.
The fact that he's choosing his fundraisers over his own constituents shows you where
this man's loyalties lie.
He doesn't care about the voters back in his home district, a district that very easily
could vote him out in the next election.
He's worried about the fact that the Freedom Caucus, that Donald Trump, everybody is threatening
his speakership because he can't get anything done.
Donors, at least right now, still seem to have a little bit of faith in Paul Ryan, but
as we tick on throughout this year, as we see Paul Ryan continue to fail on initiative
after initiative, that support is going to dwindle.
Suddenly, that $17 million that he's raised in 3 1/2 months isn't going to sustain him
into the 2018 midterms, and it's all because this man decided to ignore his constituents,
and instead, focus on
wealth Republican donors.

Paul Ryan Spent His Entire Recess Avoiding His Constituents

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