Alaska native woman, whose nephew committed suicide, confronts U.S. Rep. Don Young
Source: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
An Alaska native woman, whose nephew committed suicide, confronted Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, over a profanity-filled speech at a high school last week in which Young blamed teenage suicide on lack of support by friends and family and “government largesse.”
Young had just apologized to the Alaska Federation of Natives convention for his remarks at Wasilla High School, where students were mourning the suicide of a classmate.
The woman, Gloria Poullard, came up to Young and gave the 81-year-old congressman, senior Republican in the House, a piece of her mind.
“You know, it really put a hamper on my faith in you because my elders voted for you, and this is my state,” said Poullard. I’m an Alaska native. How do you feel within yourself, what possessed you to even make a comment like that? My nephew just committed suicide.”
Read more: http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2014/10/27/alaska-native-woman-her-nephew-a-suicide-confronts-rep-don-young/
And in case you missed Young's suicide and bull sex speech to a local school:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/don-young-wasilla-high-school-suicide
New numbers show Mr. Bridge to Nowhere falling behind and headed to a long-deserved defeat:
http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/270750/speedreads-poll-democrats-ahead-in-red-state-of-alaska-for-both-senate-and-house
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I don't know much about him, but I assume he talks a lot about gawd and guns and that's all it takes. 
and especially a woman. That was the coolest thing. 
!!! Except that she must have some real hurt inside over this, to do that, and I imagined that was what I was seeing in her eyes at the end. And then "oh well". lol. geez.
She tracked him down and told him what she had to say, and I was just cheering. Cultures are so funny - people outside of there get loud and raise their voice and get stupid like him. She is so reserved, but gets her message across too.
You go Ms. Poullard! I am in awe.
And he squeezed her hand hard? Wtf? Bully.
The native people I have been around just "do". They virtually never react, raise their voice, etc., over things that cause many other people to act out, and I say that after 60 years of just watching people. In the times I have been around them or worked on Native Nations land, I have never seen people in the normal course of the day so resilient, (except for Mexican golf course and agricultural workers maybe - how do they do that?) nice, hard-working, who, in the few times they can catch a break, do something with it.
He wasn't just wrong, he was ugly, and his timing was really bad. Then again, there is no good time to be a selfish and self-centered fool. What a sorry excuse for a Republican you are. She's right. Go away.
