Senator Mike Rounds is listening—just five days after hosting a live town hall in Rapid City, he’s hosting a public teleconference on Wednesday, May 24 (that’s tomorrow!). Here’s the e-mail invitation that’s popping up in various South Dakotans’ mailboxes:
That’s only a day’s notice, but it sure beats the surprise teleconferences Rep. Kristi Noem has held, where the phone rings and a voice announces that Noem is holding a tele-town hall right now.
The e-mail provides this link to a page at TeleForumOnline.com, which the e-mail says will activate around 7:50 p.m. Central/6:50 p.m Mountain Wednesday evening, ten minutes before our junior Senator comes online.
Note also that the e-mail says “submit” questions, not “ask”, which suggests the website will take questions in writing that Team Rounds can then filter for the boss’s convenience. O.K. fine—we make what we can with the opportunities we get.