Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) might be wishing she had taken Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) advice not to hold town hall meetings after she got booed and cursed at a town hall event in Westfield, Indiana, on Friday.

People in the central Indiana towns shouted things like, “You’re a f**king liar!” and “Do your job!” at Spartz, who has made a name for herself as one of the more far-right members of Congress.

Attendees got particularly angry at Spartz as she tried to defend Elon Musk, who has been illegally ending spending on programs authorized by Congress and firing people in violation of federal law. The crowd booed her as she tried to talk.

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Constituents also expressed frustration about the potential national security implications of the Signal group chat, where high-ranking members of the administration were caught making war plans on the commercial messaging app in a group chat that inadvertently included at least one journalist. A constituent got cheers when she asked Spartz if she would push for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to resign over the scandal, and Spartz got booed when she said no.

Constituents also brought up the Salvadoran prison camp that immigrants are being sent to, allegedly without any due process to determine if they actually broke the law. The administration has already conceded that at least one legal immigrant was deported and sent to the prison camp due to “an administrative error” but said that he wouldn’t be brought back to the U.S., while a gay make-up artist was allegedly deported and sent to the camp because he has tattoos.

“If you violated the law, you don’t get due process,” Spartz said, not explaining how it would be determined if someone broke the law without due process. She got booed by the ruckus crowd.

She was booed constantly as she tried to justify her opposition to immigration, even though Spartz herself immigrated to the U.S. as an adult from Ukraine.

Outside the venue, people who couldn’t get in chanted, “Do your job!”

Spartz represents Indiana’s Fifth Congressional District, which includes parts of Indianapolis’ northern suburbs like Carmel and Fishers, as well as some small cities like Kokomo and Muncie and swaths of rural land. Fifty-seven percent of the district voted Republican in the 2024 presidential elections.

Spartz is serving her third term in Congress. She got a score of “0” on HRC’s Congressional Scorecard in her first two sessions of Congress, showing her solid opposition to LGBTQ+ rights.

She voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, which protects same-sex couples’ marriage rights if the Supreme Court overturns its 2015 Obergefell decision. She voted against the Equality Act, which would have banned anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination at the federal level. She voted for several anti-trans pieces of legislation, including a federal sports ban and several amendments offered by House Republicans to end “radical gender ideology” in the military.

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