Around 2,000 residents gathered for The People’s Town Hall for Liberty held at Pack Square Park on April 19, noon-2 p.m.
“Welcome to our empty chair people’s town hall,” Gerry Nugent of Good Trouble WNC told the crowd. “An empty town hall is what happens when a politician is invited to a community forum but decides to ghost their constituents harder than a bad Tinder date.”
Nugent went on to explain that the event organizers added their own twist to the gathering, inviting stand-ins for Sen. Thom Tillis, Sen. Ted Budd and U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards…