BATTLE GROUND — Despite occasional outbursts and one person who repeatedly shouted, “progressives will not vote for you,” the mood at U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s town hall Wednesday evening in Battle Ground was much more subdued than other ones recently.

Last week, Perez’s town hall in Longview “devolved into a shouting match … as audience members questioned her continued support for Israel despite a rising death toll in the Gaza Strip,” The Daily News reported.

In April, during her last Clark County town hall , hundreds challenged the Democratic congresswoman on her voting record while an overflow crowd outside the Vancouver venue chanted, “Vote her out.”

The crowd of about 200 people who gathered inside the Battle Ground Event Center to hear Perez speak were considerably m

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