Democratic senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri hosted a town-hall meeting on Tuesday that quickly became a lecture. The Kansas City Star reports:
About 1,500 people turned out for the sometimes boisterous meeting in Hillsboro, about 30 miles south of St. Louis. Shouts frequently disrupted the meeting, and one man was arrested after allegedly taking a sign brought in by another person and ripping it.
“I don’t understand this rudeness,” McCaskill told the crowd at one point. “I honestly don’t get it.”
Someone shouted out that they didn’t trust McCaskill, a Democrat who was among the earliest supporters of President Barack Obama when he began his run for the White House.
“Beg your pardon … you don’t trust me?” McCaskill said. “I don’t know what else I can do.”
Senator McCaskill asked the crowd to “give her a chance,” before griping that she was “so disappointed.”
Later on in the day on her Twitter account, the senator found time to issue a mea culpa of sorts:
I’ve watched some of todays public forum, and I think at times I sounded condescending. My apologies for that.
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