“We’d like him to hold a town hall but he’s a fairly invisible man,” said Lisa O’Dwyer, who joined a handful of voters for what they called a “Tuesdays with Tom Kean” rally. They were pushing to chat with their newly-elected Republican congressman for the 7th Congressional District at his constituency office in Bridgewater. The protesters were escorted into Kean’s office and met with staff but not the congressman.
One Republican source said Kean feels no urgency to hold town halls, that he won election without them and he’ll talk to constituents on his own terms. Consultant Chris Russell noted that in this highly-polarized political environment with its weaponized social media, “It’s not really a productive dialogue if you feel the ‘gotcha moment’ is around the corner…”
