Topeka — U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Topeka, will visit 25 communities, including Lawrence, in the 2nd Congressional District over the next three weeks during the congressional recess.
Her tour starts Wednesday at the Holiday Inn Holidome in Topeka.
She will be at the Dole Institute in Lawrence at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1.
Jenkins, a freshman legislator, said she wants to hear the concerns of people in the district and give updates on what is happening in Congress.
“Folks are concerned about the out-of-control spending, increasing debt and the rapid expansion of the federal government,” Jenkins said. “I share their concerns and look forward to listening to them and discussing ideas to turn our nation around,” she said.
Here is the schedule of meetings provided by Jenkins’ office:
Wednesday
Topeka
Holiday Inn Holidome, 605 SW Fairlawn Road
10 a.m.
Thursday
Oskaloosa
Oskaloosa Public Library
1 p.m.
Holton
Hutchins Building
3 p.m.
Friday
Pittsburg
Pittsburg Congressional Office, 701 N. Broadway
1 p.m.
Fort Scott
Citizens Bank Lobby
2 p.m.
Aug. 18
Iola
County Courthouse Basement Meeting Room
10 a.m.
Chanute
City Hall Commissioners Room, 101 South Lincoln
1:30 p.m.
Aug. 19
Wetmore
American Legion Building
11 a.m.
Hiawatha
Fisher Community Center
1:30 p.m.
Troy
Pioneer Center
3 p.m.
Aug. 21
Baxter Springs
Downtown Walking Tour
2 p.m.
Parsons
Parsons Senior Center, 1800 Belmont Ave.
3:30 p.m.
Aug. 24
Yates Center
Ambulance Service Meeting Room, 114 N. Main
10 a.m.
Fredonia
Fredonia Public Library
1 p.m.
Aug. 25
Wamego
City Hall Commission Chambers, 430 Lincoln St.
10 a.m.
Manhattan
Chamber of Commerce Luncheon, Holiday Inn, 1641 Anderson Ave.
(Luncheon only open to Chamber of Commerce members)
11:30 a.m.
American Airlines Inaugural Flight
Manhattan Regional Airport
2:45 p.m.
Aug. 27
Ottawa
Courthouse Square Apartments, Community Room 235 S. Main
1 p.m.
Aug. 31
Carbondale
Carbondale Community Center
9 a.m.
Burlington
Coffey County Hospital, Allen Woods Room
11 a.m.
Sept. 1
La Cygne
Labette Bank Community Room
10 a.m.
Garnett
Garnett Inn & Suites
noon
Paola
Paola Senior Center
2 p.m.
Lawrence
Dole Institute
4 p.m.
Sept. 3
Leavenworth
Leavenworth Public Library, Jahn Meeting Room
1 p.m.
Atchison
Speaking to Atchison High School government cass
2:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Effingham
Town & Country Senior Center
3:30 p.m.
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overthemoon (anonymous) says…
Lynn Jenkins sends out questionnaires in which the questions are put so that the only answers that fit the question are those with which she agrees. With that sort of dialog, she assumes that everyone agrees with her positions. She isn't interested the least in what people really think.
She and Bachman make a good duo of one side of the coin thinking.
GardenMomma (anonymous) says…
I wondered about that. Glad someone else sees her "survey questions" the same way I do.
BrianR (anonymous) says…
Do you mean engaging in two wars overseas and creating the Department of Homeland Security kind of spending?
KansasVoter (anonymous) says…
Does Lynn really want to listen to us? It doesn't seem that way to me, considering that all of her meetings are during the work day. Unless you're retired or unemployed you probably won't be able to go to any of them....but that's probably her plan.
GardenMomma (anonymous) says…
Once I got a call from her (well, an auto-call) inviting me to a town hall meeting via the phone but since I was "not at home" she was sorry she wouldn't be able to get my input.
Funny thing is, I personally answered this call. I guess the auto-bot caller thought it got my answering machine instead a human.
yankeelady (anonymous) says…
I'm sure she will listen---as long as you agree with her positions. The whole tone is slanted just like the questionnaires she sends. I have been trying to get on her email update list, with no luck. I have called her office on several issues---the nice young man was not very helpful, or interested. I thought she was supposed to represent the 2nd district, all of us, not just the ones that agree with her.
Phillbert (anonymous) says…
I look forward to attending and yelling at her to "Keep government out of Medicare!" as that is apparently now the customary thing to do when one sees a member of Congress.
gccs14r (anonymous) says…
You mean the ones who fund her. If you're not a donor, she probably really doesn't care if you agree with her or not. Besides, she's a freshman rep in a minority party, so she's completely powerless. She should be spending her first term building alliances in DC and not alienating the voters if she wants to have a second term and have some success with it.
gccs14r (anonymous) says…
It's the Republicans who require lock-step agreement from their members, not the Democrats.
yankeelady (anonymous) says…
Amen gccs14r. You got that right.
none2 (anonymous) says…
Is she really hear to listen, or is she just hoping to find a local man to marry? Men from Washington DC tend to be unfaithful, and leave their wives.
KEITHMILES05 (anonymous) says…
Is she gonna turn out worse than Ryun?
thtb (anonymous) says…
Will this be the same listening tour she went on last time (or the lack thereof)?
Keith (anonymous) says…
Maybe she's back here to mend fences.
Thats_messed_up (anonymous) says…
Wow Tax and Spend Dennis Moore won't even show his face here, where's you're idiotic comments about that bleeding heart Libs?
Orwell (anonymous) says…
My idiotic comment would be that you know no more about representative government than you know about spelling and grammar. You might be more persuasive if you (a) relied on facts instead of name-calling, and (b) knew the difference between possessive pronouns and contractions. Some of us learned both of those rules in elementary school.
vertigo (Jesse Crittenden) says…
Mr_Nancy_Boy_To_You (Tom Shewmon) says…
The lefty loons still not over the fact Jenkins blew Boyda outta the water?
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Jenkins got 152K votes
Boyda got 138K votes
That's a difference of only 14K votes in a state that is historically very conservative and has overwhelmingly voted Republican in the vast majority of races. Doesn't sound like she got "blown out of the water"... she lost but it was still fairly close considering Kansans voting tendencies.