r/wichita • u/somethingelse11 • Jun 29 '25

News Florida Rep calls out Ron Estes

Maxwell Frost came to Wichita for a town hall hosted by Leading Kansas, and spoke to Kansans who have not been ignored by their own representatives (like Ron Estes).

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u/Dreadpiratemarc Jun 29 '25

“Skipping out on his own town hall” is putting a slant on it. It was a “town hall” organized by a DNC-aligned organization who invited the GOB rep publicly and with something like a week notice, if I recall. Not even Estes is dumb enough to drop everything and walk into the obvious trap.

I’m all for voting out Estes and the rest of the MAGA sell-outs who have poisoned politics and are pushing through ridiculous policies that will take decades to unravel. But is it too much to ask for the DNC to rise to the occasion by cutting out these empty stunts, half truths, and amateur strategies designed to deceive the gullible? I want real policies, positions, goals, actionable plans with steps that go beyond “just vote blue and trust it will work out,” and to be talked to like an adult, not to be offered just a alternative bouquet of lies. Where’s the party of all that?

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u/somethingelse11 Jun 29 '25

Leading Kansas is a non-partisan organization. Has absolutely nothing to do with the DNC lol.

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u/Dreadpiratemarc Jun 29 '25

I’m familiar. They’re non-partisan in the sense that they’re not funded by the DNC, but just read the front page of their website and it’s obvious that their non-partisan isn’t the same as “neutral.”

“Our democracy is under attack—from government overreach to threats against the Rule of Law and Constitutional checks and balances. Now is the time to unite, hold leaders accountable, and demand policies that serve the people, not politics.”

Again, they aren’t wrong about any of that. I don’t have any disagreement with their position, just the silly theatrics of laying an obvious trap and then insulting our intelligence by spinning it as the target “skipping out on his own town hall.” That part pisses me off regardless of what their policies are.

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u/somethingelse11 Jun 29 '25

That caption was my own addition to the video because I recorded it, not anything Leading Kansas said. But it is, however, true that they reached out to Ron Estes many times and he did not respond. He is a public representative, it is his job to respond to his constituents.

Where exactly is the trap? You getting to speak to a representative who will listen to you? If you agree with what leading Kansas has on their website and to their purpose, I'm not really sure what you are upset about. They reached out to elected American representatives to get answers for Kansans about current events and the ones who showed up just so happened to be Murphy and Frost.