New York Republican Rep. Tom Reed raised $585,282 after facing angry protesters at town hall meetings when other upstate Republicans were avoiding them.

Reed’s quarterly fundraising haul was a personal high and doubled the amount raised by any other member from upstate New York, New York Upstate reported.

Reed used the disruptions at his meetings in his appeals to the “silent majority.”

“The past few months have seen liberals stepping up their attacks against us, trying to stop us from fulfilling our promises to cut regulations, create jobs and stand up for constitutional, limited government,” one fundraising email read.