Louie Gohmert Giffords’s husband to GOP rep: Don’t ‘hide behind’ my wife’s shooting to avoid town halls Giffords to lawmakers avoiding town halls: ‘Have some courage’ GOP rep invokes Giffords shooting as reason not to hold town hall MORE should not “hide behind” his wife’s shooting to avoid town halls. “If he doesn’t want to do town halls, he should just say he doesn’t want to face his constituents,” Mark Kelly said Friday, according to CNN .