Kansas Senator Roger Marshall ran like a bitch from a Saturday town hall at a hospital in the state’s rural western reaches, saying “We don’t have time for everyone to stand up. I do got two more commitments today. I appreciate everybody making the drive out and God bless America,” as he fled from the room, the Lawrence Times reports on yet another act of cowardice.

Western Kansan Rodney Bates complained that too many people from the bluer eastern part of the state had come to the event. “I came because I wanted to see what was affecting nursing homes right now,” Bates told the Times. “Rural hospitals are hurting but all people wanted to do was scream at the senator.” He wasn’t wrong, at least one person, Anne Parelkar, from Overland Park did in fact tell the paper she had traveled to Oakley to confront Marshall to question him about the efficiencies of cutting government workers, to which Marshall told her she’d been fed disinformation.

But the first problem with Bates’s complaint is that Marshall is a Senator. This isn’t like if libs from Atlanta had rushed Marjorie Taylor Greene’s event. Every Kansan is a constituent and, to that point, it’s no fucking mystery why he held the town hall in a rural hospital cafeteria that the Times says seats 20 people. The second problem is that at least one local, Chuck Nunn, had in fact stood up and called Marshall out, saying federal job cuts affecting veterans were “a damn shame.”

Another man, probably a local, then said “I’m not a Democrat, but I’m worried about the veterans.”