A cut-out photo of Congressman Mike Rogers is brought in to a "Town Hall in Absentia" in Anniston Tuesday, March 7, 2017.

About 70 people cheered today as a stand-in for U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Saks) came to a town hall meeting "in absentia."

It was a suit with a photo of Rogers, blown up to near lifesize, which stood at the front of a room while people from his district vented their frustrations over the Trump Administration and what they said was Rogers' unwillingness to answer their questions.

The group Indivisible, which has staged similar protests around the country, hosted the meeting at Anniston Meeting Center.

For the next hour, members of the audience rose to "ask" questions of Rogers about a proposed border wall, about healthcare, and other issues related to Trump policy initiatives. The group says Rogers will not hold meetings to take questions and that he had been invited.

Rogers' office yesterday said he plans on holding town hall meetings in the future, but that he did not plan on having any representative at today's meeting.

One of the organizers, Rufus Kinney, addressed the picture of Rogers, asking why the congressman has not denounced comments Trump has made about women and Hispanics.

"You have always wrapped yourself in the flag and in Christian values, have you not?" Kinney asked, directing the question at Rogers, asking "what could be more unchristian" than not to have spoken out.

"Raise your hand if you're a paid protestor," Kinney said to the crowd, getting only derisive laughter.

One woman compared building a border wall to the Tower of Babel, while another said she had lived for years in fear without insurance until receiving Obamacare.

Nicki Arnold Swindle said her son is currently serving in the military as her father did. She said the money being proposed to bolster the armed forces and build a border wall would be more responsibly spent in caring for veterans. Instead, she said, much of the money spent will go to contractors.

"My son is leaving to go to combat, and he feels like they don't even care about them," she said. "Take care of our veterans, take care of our government workers, take care of our poor."