Colorado Politics told you Saturday morning that U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner is planning a town hall meeting at the Pueblo Convention Center Monday at 11:30 a.m.

In August, he held town halls in Colorado Springs, Greeley and Lakewood in the same day, and at each stop faced harsh opponents who shouted angry questions about repealing and replacing Obamacare and his embrace of President Donald Trump.

Three months later the questions have only deepened, but in Pueblo on the Monday morning of a holiday week, will activists have the passion to rally? Lookin’ at you, ProgressNow Colorado.

Here are some questions I might ask if I got up earlier enough to drive to Pueblo:

What’s up with tax reform?

Gardner has to make the sale that the Republican tax reform plan isn’t about making the rich richer at the expense of the poor. He should try to convince Pueblans and assembled activists – if they’ll let him speak – that simplifying the tax code benefits everyday Americans, and not just those with lobbyists, tax lawyers and offshore tax havens. The House passed a bill last week. The Senate, with a thread of a majority that proved it couldn’t pull together on healthcare, is in a precarious position, and so is Gardner as an aspiring leader of the caucus, when they take up the bill after the break for turkey.

Why use a tax bill to fix a healthcare problem? Is that policy or politics?

Republicans argue that Obamacare added millions of people to Medicaid by trying to offer them some kind of insurance. By doing so Democrats endangered a system that disabled and elderly Americans depend on. Democrats did that, which Republicans keep trying and failing to show people. But people who are scared for their lives blame Republicans for trying to dismantle their safety net in the name of managing costs. People in wheelchairs staged a 58-hour “die in” in the lobby of Gardner’s Denver office in June to demonstrate their legitimate fears. Also in June Gardner urged patience for Republicans who were working the best they could on healthcare reform. Now five months later, have we been patient enough? It’s time to talk specifics about how to fix the cost and availability of healthcare, Cory.

How scared, really, should we be about North Korea?

In the same week in August when Trump rattled America’s saber by saying of North Koreans, “They will be met with fire, fury, and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before” for testing nuclear warhead-bearing missiles that might reach Guam or Hawaii. Gardner was tough but measured. “We will deploy every economic, diplomatic and, if necessary, military tool to deter them,” he said. Should kids today have nightmares the way we Cold War children did? We assume Gardner knows more than anyone else we know personally, since he’s chairman of the Senate subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific.

Will he accept the price for Roy Moore?

Cory Gardner is the chairman of the committee that tries to get other senators elected nationwide, a critically important job to build up the GOP majority to pass things such as tax relief and healthcare reform the way the right sees fit. So why is Gardner trying so hard to keep Alabama from electing Roy Moore, a Republican, running against a Democrat? Gardner has already pulled the committee’s financial aide in the Yellowhammer State. Everybody’s favorite Yuma Republican said Moore should never be allowed in the Senate, even if Alabama Republicans vote differently. Why? Because some things are more important than politics. Plus, Republicans will just win back Jeff Sessions’ old seat in two years anyway. If they don’t start passing some legislation, however, Republicans could wind up on the wrong side of a majority sooner rather than grow one later. The Republican base in Colorado is not a winning machine, but it’s not to be trifled with, either. Gardner is more than trifling with the religious right; he’s delivering a kick in the shins. Be careful, Sen. Gardner. You’ll be on the ballot in 2020, the same year the establishment GOP’s replacement candidate for Moore is feeling the far-right backlash in Alabama, and Trump presumably will be up for re-election. Steve Bannon is not to be trifled with. Political memories are short, but sometimes they’re long.

Can the federal government do something about Colorado’s interstate traffic jams?

Most of the money that goes into Colorado transportation comes from the federal government, one way or the other. It’s how state legislators are able to play a shell game with the state budget money to put it anywhere but solving traffic jams on interstates 25 and 70. Trump promised the biggest public infrastructure-building initiative in history (sorry, New Deal) on the campaign trail if we would give him the keys. In the White House, he doesn’t talk much about that anymore in any way that makes sense. So what can our country for do for us, if our state won’t?

Trump, how do you like him now?

If they’re honest about it, Democrats won’t be able to make a case that fair reporters will buy that Gardner was ever a Trump man. No way, not beyond guilt by association. He’s called Trump a buffoon. He told him to call evil by its name after the white nationalists marched on Charlottesville, Va., and he wanted Trump out of the race for the “Access Hollywood” remarks. Gardner has fearlessly tapped the brakes or outright opposed Trump’s handling of sanctions and threats as a means of diplomacy. But with the special prosecutor’s investigation into the Trump inner circle’s ties to Wikileaks and Russian collusion, where might Gardner land on the eventual question of impeachment and a new president?