‘BUT YOU’RE NOT HERE’: Hoosiers voice concerns, frustrations at ‘empty chair’ town hall that Sen. Todd Young declined to attend

By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen March 21, 2025 The young woman stepped up to the microphone at the town hall meeting and began reading from a small notebook in which she had written a handful of questions she wanted to ask Republican Sen. Todd Young of Indiana. Her inquiries indicated she aligned with the political left, as she asked about the senator’s confirmation votes for President Donald Trump’s controversial nominees, what she saw as his “refusing to protect the legislative branch” and why he was remaining “silent on the current intimidation of the judiciary,” as well as whether he believes in a constitutional right to due process for everyone in the Unite ...