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But because those principles steered Brown onto private property — he sat outside Wagner's office in a west ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ County business park — he was arrested Monday for trespassing.

"It was a very humiliating experience," said Brown, 74, a former teacher at Eureka High School who lives in Ballwin. 

Wagner's office said staffers were aware of Brown's arrest only after the fact. "We had absolutely nothing to do with that and no one in our office played any role in his arrest," a spokesperson said.

The day Brown was arrested was actually his sixth day of protesting. The week before, Brown said, he spent two hours every weekday morning outside Wagner's office.

The property in question is Prospect Center, near Manchester and Weidman roads. It houses about , along with Wagner's office.

Brown said no one approached him until Friday, when a property manager told him he was trespassing on private property.

A spokesperson for the office park's management company, Skyline Commercial Real Estate, said Brown's arrest Monday was "by his choosing."

Brown was told Friday that if he returned to his spot, the company would take action. So after Brown returned Monday, a manager told him he needed to move to public property. At that point, both Brown and the company concur, he refused to leave.

He was arrested by ×îÐÂÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ County officers, handcuffed and taken to police headquarters in Clayton. Brown was quick to say the officers were "very professional, extremely polite."

His beef with Wagner, a seven-term Republican from Town and Country, is her reluctance to hold town hall meetings. Specifically, Brown's homemade protest placard carries the message of: "Rep. Wagner, Townhall please!"

Wagner's office has said that because of the increasingly confrontational nature of public meetings, she has opted to communicate with constituents more through newsletters and appointments. The office also noted that Wagner's can be contacted by telephone or email.

Since his brush with the law, Brown has moved his protest to a different, and more visible, location: the Manchester/Weidman intersection.

"I know some people are going to write me off as a kook," he said. "But if Harry Truman wasn't holding town hall meetings, I'd be sitting outside of Harry Truman's office."