Members of Forward Kenosha have held numerous protests outside Ryan’s local office, 5031 Seventh Ave., this winter.

No Ryan events planned

Martorana said Ryan has no press-open Kenosha events nor town halls scheduled in the immediate future. He said any upcoming events will be posted to Ryan’s website paulryan.house.gov.

Ryan has previously held at least some in-person, in-district listening sessions in the spring, most recently in Kenosha in April 2015 and March 2014. Sessions were also held here in April 2008 and 2011, based on a search of Kenosha News archives.

However, Martorana said telephone town halls were held in April 2016, but Ryan and his team were barred by the House Committee on Administration from doing any others from May to after the Nov. 8 election.

“Basically, the rules are that you cannot use any funds from the (members’ representational allowance) to engage in any unsolicited mass communication to more than 500 people within 90 days of being on the ballot, hence no (telephone town halls) from April — after the election,” he said. “We plan to have a telephone town hall next month. We group callers by geographic area.”

Martorana encouraged constituents who want to be on the call list to contact the Ryan administration via phone or email. Martorana said Ryan has done six telephone town halls since he become speaker in October 2015.

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