Senator Begich had many town hall meetings all over the state with the voters. I saw Mark all the time meet with 6 voters or  in the hundreds.  During the creation of the ACA with all the Tea Party chaos Mark would show up at his town hall meetings and people wanted to yell at him and he was such a people person that they left the meeting happy to be able to talk to him , express their views and he would listen, he had no fear of the voters. Mark considered Town Hall meetings all over the state part of his job. Mark often drove himself here and usually brought a staff member with him. I use to help him unload the car. Sullivan, I think he was here once.  I saw Sullivan in August in Fairbanks for a small gathering in there and he had 4 staff people with him who filled him in on the "details" of what the event was and they wrote everything down we said to him personally.