Arkansas Rep. Steve Womack criticizes constituent for wearing a Mexican flag shirt to town hall meeting

At a heated town hall meeting, Rep. Steve Womack (R-AK) chose to address the most important issue of the day: the shirt that a constituent, Yardley Leonard, was wearing when he asked the Representative a question about immigration reform.

Leonard, who identified himself as being "Mexican-American" and was wearing a shirt with a Mexican flag on it, asked Womack if it would be possible "to legalize the 11 million [undocumented immigrants] who are here and contributing." After providing Leonard with a boilerplate Republican response -- that this is "a country of laws" and people here "illegally" want him to "walk away [and] just say 'the law doesn't count for a day'" -- Womack stopped Leonard as he walked back to his seat.

"It does strike me as a bit odd," Womack said, "that I would get a question as to why we shouldn’t just automatically make it legal for people who didn’t come here in a legal circumstance, with a flag of another country hanging around his neck."

He then offered Leonard "some good ol' friendly advice."

"If you want to win friends and influence people on the issues that you are talking about, I would suggest a little different approach in terms of my attire when I’m appealing to an audience like this."

The mostly white "audience like this" lustily applauded Womack's wardrobe advice.

Watch a video of Leonard and Womack's exchange here:

[Image via Steve Womack on Facebook]