Rep. Cliff Bentz holds second tele-town hall since announcing he won’t be holding any in-person events
Spencer Sacks
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Representative Cliff Bentz, R-Ore., held his second of two previously announced town halls on Wednesday evening.
During the town hall, he spoke about rural hospitals, rural schools and wolves. Additionally, the congressman was asked about timber and wildfires
Bentz said: “This situation is becoming more and more difficult because the more fuel that we have in the woods, the more dangerous the fires are and the more difficult it is to put them out, and the more difficult it is to find anybody that wants to sell insurance to people who have homes anywhere in the neighborhood of a forest. And so these kinds of problems can only be addressed by reducing the amount of wood in the forest.”
Representative Bentz also took a question about nuclear power.
He said: “I support nuclear, completely. The question has always been with nuclear. How do we how do we ever actually get any of it in Oregon, any generation, when the Constitution years ago was amended to prohibit it? So the first thing that would have to happen in Oregon to make it happen is to change the constitution. and I think there’s some enthusiasm for doing so. I hope there is, because nuclear reactors, small nuclear reactors, I think are the future
The congressman was also asked by a constituent about the Jeffery Epstein investigation.
He reiterated his remarks from last week’s town-hall, saying that he supports Representative James Comer and the house oversight’s committee’s investigation, rather than Representative Thomas Massie’s discharge petition.
This town hall wrapped up the two he had scheduled after previously announcing that he will no longer be holding in person town halls due to the protests and disruptions that have taken place before.
Representative Bentz also shared some remarks about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, condemning the assassin.