Wisconsin US Senator Tammy Baldwin held a town hall meeting at Prescott High School on Wednesday. High school students and approximately 30 community members attended the meeting. Covering a wide range of topics including Syria, climate change and the Americans with Disabilities Act, Senator Baldwin spent an hour and a half answering questions from those in attendance. She advocated for citizens to be involved at grass roots levels regarding effecting change to legislation about topics such as federal government shortfalls of promised funding to special education needs, overturning Citizens United, and issues regarding natural resource management. She also discussed her efforts on various committees in the Senate to deal with the issues the citizens brought to the meeting. There was a brief outburst from an audience member regarding Syria. The person was convinced to calm down and was not removed from the meeting. Efforts by KDWA News to obtain an interview with the Senator either before or after the town hall meeting were denied. KDWA news will, however, provide more of our first hand report from the town hall meeting on tomorrow’s newscast.
