After ignoring her constituency for the entire congressional recess, except for a telephone town hall meeting to which new folks need not apply, naturally 8th District Congresswoman Melissa Bean did not show up for the Libertyville Town Hall meeting set up by citizens.

Neither did her congressional colleagues U.S. Representative Make Kirk and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin. Kirk actually did hold a real live town hall meeting on health care, but Durbin and Bean have refused to allow warm bodies to question him at an open forum.

Above you see the organizers–all women–having some fun with the congressional cutouts (pun intended).