The 14,000 Twitter users who follow U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette were otherwise engaged Wednesday and unable to participate in her confusingly-named online chat.
What Q’s do you have for me? Tweet your Q’s @RepDianaDeGette using #5at5 before 5pm & I’ll pick 5 & answer them. pic.twitter.com/nnEiNcpeDx
— Rep. Diana DeGette (@RepDianaDeGette) July 1, 2015
She used two different hashtags, #Fiveat5 and #5at5, and received only two questions, one of which she answered.
This was not the question she answered:
@RepDianaDeGette Where does violent hate crime movie 50 Shades of Grey fit into helping equality for women? #Fiveat5
— Fancy (@Fancy_Tale) July 1, 2015
Other Fiveat5 hashtag users were more interested in photography and music requests to a London station.
Over on the 5at5 hashtag was the granddaddy of softball questions from user Shrillerthanyou, who asked what she considered to be the three most pressing issues facing Colorado and what could be done to address them?
Now, there’s a question that screams out for a 180-character response.
We’ll keep you on tenterhooks no longer, DeGette’s answer was roads, affordable housing and student debt.
And how will each crisis be addressed? “I’m bringing stakeholders to the table, stay tuned & come work w/us.”
No wonder nothing ever gets accomplished in Washington.
Meanwhile, everyone else on the hashtag 5at5 was more interested in this:
#YourTaxDollarsatWork