Rep. Eshoo recently hosted a telephone town hall with constituents from Atherton, Menlo Park, Woodside, Portola Valley, and La Honda to hear about their concerns about national and local issues. Sandy Brundage, staff writer for the Menlo Park Almanac, covered the telephone town hall. An excerpt of the article is below:

Nearly 7,000 people listened to a telephone town hall hosted by U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Menlo Park, on Tuesday night.

Constituents from Atherton, Menlo Park, Woodside, Portola Valley, and La Honda took advantage of the opportunity to ask Ms. Eshoo, who was in Washington, D.C., about national issues that are having a local impact, such as unemployment, health care, and green jobs.

Ms. Eshoo spent about an hour fielding 12 questions. Agreeing with one caller, Helen from Woodside, who suggested that current environmental problems presented an opportunity for creating jobs, the Congresswoman said, "Unfortunately, it's almost a form of torture for me to be in a Congress that's as anti-environmental as this one is. They have cut and hollowed out the departments that are responsible for all of these policies."

The telephone town hall wound down with a commentary on changes in campaign financing disclosure, with a recent Supreme Court ruling making it possible for corporations to anonymously donate millions, according to Ms. Eshoo's analysis, and job creation.

Saying the Republican majority in Congress refuses to take up the President's jobs bill because they put their dislike of the current administration ahead of the needs of the country, Ms. Eshoo ended on what she called a sad note, stating that it's almost November, with no jobs bill in sight, and unemployment in the Bay Area rising.

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