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7-20-2023 12:47pm

Congressional Tele-Townhall Tonight for Western Half of SFV

Rep. Sherman has hosted 150+ Townhalls "in a variety of formats" over 26 years. There are PR's for 72 general public events, but 60% were e-appearances (16 prior & 28 post Covid).

Tonight, the West SFV Congressman presents a tele-townhall.  While listener tallies have been purported to be in the past 3000 -7000, there is no guarantee of the time or capacity for a listener to be heard.  Whether the transmission is full-duplex or half-duplex, allowing multiple participants to simultaneously ask the Congressman a question would be confusing - contrast an in-person event with the flavor and temperature of the audience palpable. 

The date & telephone number for the townhall is provided via the townhall page on his website. The event starts at 7pm.  Number to Dial: (855) 920-0548

"Our Next Town Hall will take place on July 20th, 2023 - RSVP Here"

There is no requirement in the Constitution for a Congressman to meet, meet & greet with constituents. Although, the short two-year term does suggest the meet & greet aspect would be scheduled in order to accomplish a re-election.  The Constitution does stipulate an accountability of government to the citizens.  REDRESS.  That is articulated in the very noticeable FIRST Amendment!  

"Congress shall make no law respecting...and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." 

Cornell Law School details this petition & redress including this extraction of the full text:

"Furthermore, the right of petition has also expanded beyond what might be implied by the language of “a redress of grievances.”...The right extends to all departments of the government, including the “approach of citizens or groups of them to administrative agencies (which are both creatures of the legislature, and arms of the executive) and to courts, the third branch of Government.”

The San Fernando Valley is represented in Congress by 

A  tally, based on the Congressman's Press Releases & social media posts, of townhalls from 2004-2023 is presented here. Links to the source of information is within the date. An additional 28 townhall events at high-schools  for the students were not included in our list:

Year Location Date
2004 Reseda High School 8/29
2005 ONEgeneration Center 3/22
2005 Reseda High School June
2006 Reseda High School 3/26
2006 Reseda High School 8/24
2008 Telephone 2/13
2008 Telephone 6/24
2009 Telephone 1/29
2009 Birmingham CommunityCharter 8/31
2009 Woodland Hills/Tarzana Chamber of Commerce 8/19
2009 Sherman Oaks Chamber of Commerce 8/20
2010 Telephone 1/25
2011 Valley Performing Arts Center/CSUN 5/1
2011 Reseda High School 8/28
2011 Reseda High School 11/6
2011 Temple Judea- - Tarzana 11/12
2011 Village - Senior Living 9/27
2011 Birmingham Charter School 11/15
2012 Reseda High School 1/21
2012 Birmingham High School 8/26
2013 Dixie Canyon Elementary School 6/2
2013 El Camino High School 8/25
2014 Birmingham High School 8/24
2014 Fountainview Jewish Home 3/17
2015 Telephone 4/21
2015 Birmingham 9/20
2015 Milikkan Middle School 11/15
2016 Telephone 1/26
2016 Granada Hills Charter School 4/3
2017 Staff onsite Alysso Cyn 2/1
2017 Reseda High School 4/22
2017 Facebook 5/24
2017 Telephone 6/30
2017 Telephone 11/15
2018 Telephone/skype 1/22
2018 Telephone 2/28
2018 Reseda High School 3/25
2018 Telephone 8/8
2019 Chatsworth High School 1/19
2019 Telephone 4/9
2019 Facebook 5/1
2019 Telephone 5/16
2019 Granada Hills Charter School 6/1
2019 Millikan Middle School 11/10
2019 Telephone 12/18
2020 Telephone 3/31
2020 Telephone 4/7
2020 Telephone 4/21
2020 Telephone 5/5
2020 Telephone 5/19
2020 Telephone 6/2
2020 Telephone 6/16
2020 Telephone 7/7
2020 Telephone 8/4
2021 Telephone 1/21
2021 Telephone 3/25
2021 Telephone 5/20
2021 Telephone 6/24
2021 Telephone 7/21
2021 Telephone 9/28
2021 Telephone 11/16
2022 Telephone 1/20
2022 Telephone 2/7
2022 Telephone 3/15
2022 Telephone 4/6
2022 Telephone 4/27
2022 Telephone 7/28
2022 Telephone 9/7
2022 Telephone 11/17
2023 Telephone 2/3
2023 Telephone 3/28
2023 Telephone 5/18
2023 Telephone 7/20
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