BUTTE COUNTY, CA (MPG) – Despite the early morning hour, reportedly hundreds of individuals waited outside the Chico Elks Lodge Monday Aug. 11 to attend a short-notice town hall meeting hosted by Congressman Doug LaMalfa.

Congressman LaMalfa announced the town hall meeting Aug. 7, inviting residents of the Butte County and residents of the 1st District to voice their concerns, ask questions and “discuss the issues that matter most to our region” he told KRCR.

The meeting was scheduled for 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and saw a large turnout of individuals representing both sides of the political isle.

The congressman tackled topics such as passing of the “Big Beautiful Bill” and the Epstein files, and more of local import.

Apparently, some voices were louder than others, based on information reported by local media outlets and even congressional staffers. Teri DuBose a representative with the LaMalfa’s office told the Herald that the behavior of those in attendance was less than respectable.

In a social media post, DuBose stated “the antipathy for the prayer, posting of the colors, and pledge were the first signs of hot the next hour and a half of this town Hall would go” in reference to the republican representatives meeting with the public.

During the town hall, LaMalfa was “booed” and heckled while trying to speak, while attendees in opposition to the Republican Representatives views angrily yelled comments studded with profanities. At times LaMalfa could barely get a word out over the public commentary.

“Thank God I did not witness any young children in the room throughout its entirety, as the F-you’s were shouted constantly, nor when I was called an F-ing C as we were getting the Congressman in his car to leave,” said DuBose in an online post, “No matter what your beliefs, there is no reason for such behavior.”

LaMalfa’s held a second town hall later that day in Red Bluff later the same afternoon, with KRCR channel 7 reporting a somewhat similar emotional climate of the public turnout.