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He ended chauffeur-driven cars for top staff members, sold the presidential yacht, went to the White House mess hall for lunch with the staff and conducted town meetings around the country.

That sparked a massive grassroots backlash, fueled by public demonstrations and support in a series of New England town meetings.

Emergency management officials passed out a list of evacuation procedures to worried residents at a Wednesday evening town meeting meant to mitigate panic.

After initially targeting 55 towns, Lindell’s supporters gathered enough petitions to bring the topic up at 23 of the annual town meetings held this month to adopt budgets and settle other matters.

At town meetings, people sometimes go beyond voting on local issues and decide to take a stand on national issues of the day.