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Classmate of Ford's on "All In" just now (Original Post) Raven Sep 2018 OP
Remarkable interview. Taraman Sep 2018 #1
Very strong, elleng Sep 2018 #2
ReTHUGs are fucking with the wrong malaise Sep 2018 #4
I agree elleng Sep 2018 #5
She said: we (women) will be taken seriously". guillaumeb Sep 2018 #3
That's interesting about Shelley Capito DeminPennswoods Sep 2018 #6
Sounds good to me. elleng Sep 2018 #7
Murkowski's brother also attended GP DeminPennswoods Sep 2018 #8

Taraman

(373 posts)
1. Remarkable interview.
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 08:44 PM
Sep 2018

If her friend Chrissy Blasey is as well spoken and present, the old white men of Judiciary will be humiliated.

elleng

(130,669 posts)
2. Very strong,
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 08:45 PM
Sep 2018

and by referring to her/their classmates @ Holton Arms, everyone should take note; it's an outstanding school, with many outstanding graduates.

Brooke Astor, philanthropist
Christine Blasey Ford, American psychologist and professor
Katharine Byron, first woman elected to Congress from Maryland
Shelley Moore Capito, Senator from West Virginia
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress, played Elaine on Seinfeld; daughter of billionaire Gérard Louis-Dreyfus
Susan Ford, daughter of former U.S. President Gerald Ford
Michelle Gielan, anchor of CBS Morning News and the overnight Up To The Minute
Nancy LaFon Gore, daughter of Albert Gore, Sr. and sister of Al Gore
Princess Aisha bint Hussein, Princess of Jordan
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former first lady (attended the middle school)
Anne Kornblut, White House correspondent for The Washington Post
Christine Lagarde, Minister of Finance of France, head of the International Monetary Fund (attended 1 year)
Patricia Richardson, actress, played Jill on Home Improvement
Ann Schein, pianist
Reagan Thompson, Director of policy for first lady Melania Trump
Margaret Warner, award-winning senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Elinor Wylie, poet
Rachael Yamagata, singer-songwriter
Azita Youssefi, musician/artist

elleng

(130,669 posts)
5. I agree
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 09:15 PM
Sep 2018

(but don't have any 'inside information; one of my daughters' primary school classmates attended Holton, but I don't even recall WHO!)

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
3. She said: we (women) will be taken seriously".
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 08:53 PM
Sep 2018

The exception is among the males leading the GOP, and on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

DeminPennswoods

(15,264 posts)
6. That's interesting about Shelley Capito
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 09:16 PM
Sep 2018

I wonder how many Dems are talking to her about the G'town Prep boys? No one has ever pegged her as a swing vote, but maybe with the charge coming from an HA alumnae, maybe she's not a given aye vote.

DeminPennswoods

(15,264 posts)
8. Murkowski's brother also attended GP
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 07:24 AM
Sep 2018

Despite the partisanship divide, I'm sure senators still do talk to each other. Maybe there's at least some context of what life was like at those two schools being shared.

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