'We can’t bear it': Republican locks office doors as constituents demand meeting

Grassroots organizers delivered more than 2,000 petition signatures to the Lansing office of U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI) demanding that the first-term congressman hold an in-person town hall meeting.

Barrett held a telephone town hall earlier in the month, following guidance from the House GOP’s campaign arm to avoid backlash at in-person meetings.

But the information to call in for that meeting didn’t reach everyone who registered for the event, and some Democrats have...