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Group unable to meet with Rep. Schweikert brings cardboard cutout to rally

Members of a group calling itself Stand Indivisible posted up on a Phoenix sidewalk Wednesday next to a life-size cardboard cutout of U.S. Rep. David Schweikert. 

The group of independent voters, retirees and military veterans say they’ve spent years unsuccessfully trying to get a sit-down meeting with the Republican lawmaker.

U.S. Navy veteran Nick Prestera says Schweikert’s Scottsdale office is really a fortress that is always locked.  

“The cutout symbolizes the man we can never talk to. The man who never listens to us,” Prestera said. 

Schweikert’s office did not reply to a request for comment.

He won a seventh term in the U.S. House last year.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Due to an editing error, the headline on this story has been changed to clarify where the rally took place.

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Matthew Casey has won Edward R. Murrow awards for hard news and sports reporting since he joined KJZZ as a senior field correspondent in 2015.