About 200 people turned up to the Waverly Country Club just south of Portland Wednesday to protest a fundraiser headlined by House Speaker Paul Ryan to benefit U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, Oregon's only Republican member of Congress, and a Washington lawmaker.

The fundraiser -- which ran $1,000 for a photo-op and $2,700 for a meet-and-greet -- came after a packed day for Ryan and Walden. They toured Intel's Hillsboro campus, met with company executives to talk tax reform and held a press conference.

The pair then met with bigwigs in Oregon's nursing home and assisted living industry, according to Willamette Week.

Outside the Waverly, a swanky private club on the eastern banks of the Willamette, protesters held signs and banners and delivered speeches through portable loudspeakers as cars streamed into the fundraiser. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican from southwest Washington, was a beneficiary along with Walden.

Protesters chanted "Shame!" at arriving cars.

"Paul Ryan is enabling a madman," read one protester's sign, referencing President Trump. "Resist, Reject, Replace Republicans," read another sign.

Most protesters were opposed to Ryan and Walden's handling of Congressional Republicans' effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Walden played a central role in crafting the House bill as chairman of the committee that writes health care laws. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the plan pushed through Walden's committee, and eventually approved by the full House, would leave 24 million people uninsured within the next decade, relative to current law.

Will Layng, of worker rights advocacy group Portland Jobs with Justice, said he came to the protest to voice his disappointment in Ryan and Walden's health care efforts.

"It's fitting for everyone to see that they charge $2,700 for a secretive dinner," Layng said, "where they can plot how to take away our health care."

-- Gordon R. Friedman

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