Confrontational conversation with Cathy

They’re billed as “Conversations with Cathy,” but while last Friday’s town hall meeting at Cheney’s Wren Pierson Community Center with 5th District Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers was conversational, it was also somewhat confrontational and ended becoming emotionally-charged.

Arriving over half an hour late because of a previous meeting at Fairchild Air Force Base, the incumbent Congresswoman was frequently challenged in her positions on a variety of issues, but none so emotionally testy as the one audience member Nancy Street posed near the end of the hour-long meeting. Street said she was concer...