'Look at me when I'm talking to you!': Crying protester confronts Jeff Flake in Capitol elevator

[babylonsister]

Brava to all the women who are standing up to these cowards!

‘Look at me when I’m talk­ing to you!’: Crying protester confronts Jeff Flake in Capitol elevator
By Lindsey Bever
September 28 at 10:58 AM


After Sen. Jeff Flake’s announcement that he would, in fact, vote to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, the emotional debate over the confirmation spilled into the halls of Congress, on live television, as two women tearfully and loudly confronted the Arizona Republican in an el­e­va­tor, tell­ing Flake that he was dis­miss­ing the pain of sex­ual as­sault survivors.

“What you are doing is al­low­ing some­one who ac­tu­al­ly vio­lat­ed a woman to sit in the Su­preme Court,” one woman shout­ed during a live CNN broadcast as Flake was making his way to a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. “This is hor­rible. You have chil­dren in your fam­i­ly. Think a­bout them.”

Then another woman chimed in, tell­ing Flake that she was once sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed and that no one be­lieved her sto­ry.

“You’re tell­ing all women that they don’t mat­ter — that they should just stay quiet be­cause if they tell you what hap­pened to them, you’re going to ig­nore them,” she said as cameras rolled.

“You’re just going to help that man to pow­er any­way,” the woman add­ed, weep­ing. “That’s what you’re tell­ing all of these women. That’s what you’re tell­ing me right now.

“Look at me when I’m talk­ing to you! You’re tell­ing me that my as­sault doesn’t mat­ter, that what hap­pened to me doesn’t mat­ter and that you’re going to let people who do these things into pow­er! That’s what you’re tell­ing me when you vote for him!"

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Flake lis­tened quietly, then told the women: “Thank you.”

“Say­ing ‘thank you’ is not an an­swer,” the first woman re­spond­ed. “This is a­bout the fu­ture of our coun­try, sir.”

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[Anon-C]

1. To Hell with Jeff Flake!

[LandOfHopeAndDreams]

2. He's A Fucking COWARD

He couldn't even look her in the eyes. He was thinking more about what he's going to have for lunch, than what she was saying. Couldn't wait for her to finish so he could get to his office and be protected from women like her.

[area51]

4. Here's Jeff Flake when an ALS patient asks him for help

[babylonsister]

5. I dunno; maybe she did get to him! nt

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Flake is going to recieve a

multi million dollar job in Mesa next year. Count on it. Remember Dan Quayle,same shit just a new year.