A swing-district Iowa Republican says she’ll hold town halls ‘when hell freezes over’

Iowa Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks speaks during the House GOP news conference on Tuesday, January 11, 2022. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP

Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks told Johnson County Republicans in an August meeting that she’ll hold town hall meetings “when hell freezes over.”

The Republican, who represents one of the nation’s most competitive House districts in southeastern Iowa, has faced questions for months over when she’ll hold a public town hall after promising to do so in April.

And in the meeting with the Johnson County Republicans of Iowa — which was later posted on YouTube by the county party, where it went largely unnoticed at the time — she was blunt, saying she’s already being hounded over Medicaid cuts in the GOP’s massive government funding and po