Go ahead and call us Twit-compoops; try as we might, we weren’t able to find a response in Twitter-space earlier today on behalf of U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman when we blogged about how the Colorado Republican congressman was accused of ducking out early from a meeting with constituents in Aurora on Saturday. A lot of them had come to express support for Obamacare and voice their dismay with Coffman for seeking (along with the rest of the GOP majority in Congress) to disband the much-debated health-care policy. Coffman’s critics later took to Twitter, where they launched a barrage of barbs that we published in our blog post this morning.

Turns out, @TeamCoffman2016, the voice of Coffman’s successful re-election campaign last fall, had in fact responded via Twitter a day ago. We were…really busy and must have missed it:

That three-part response prompted yet another round of indignant tweets taking offense at being labeled “activists” rather than constituents. The nerve of the Coffman camp-implying the whole affair had been ginned up! As if it were a well-planned ambush! Can’t a congressman’s constituents show up to one of his meet-and-greets and lay into him over some issue or another without being accused of conspiring to punk him in public?

Well…let’s all pull our chairs up to the adult table for a moment. Politics is about orchestration and choreography and all those other words that boil down to this: Not much in the business happens by chance.

And, come to think of it, it does seem a stretch that these folks just spontaneously broke into song (after song)-staying in better synch than some church choirs:

There also were those lightning-fast Twitter blitzes mounted by Coffman’s foes as well as media-ready quips by Obamacare defenders who seemed a little too queued up in the wake of Saturday’s meeting-gone-wrong. As in this account today from Denverite:

“Last I heard, [Coffman] is hiding out in some undisclosed location,” said Ron Ruggiero, president of Local 105 of the Service Employees International Union. “He doesn’t want to face rooms like this.”

Ruggiero was referring to a community meeting Saturday in which a few hundred people showed up to ask Coffman about what would happen to them if the ACA goes away.

Of course, activists can be constituents, too, and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s just that they were a little more rehearsed than your typical constituent-and it’s our job in the media to point that out.