Connie Schultz: I snapped this photo of @SenSherrodBrown in the wee hours of December 24, 2009...

[demmiblue]

1/ I snapped this photo of @SenSherrodBrown in the wee hours of December 24, 2009, as he walked through the Rotunda to the Senate floor to cast his vote for the Affordable Care Act. He had asked that I be with him, but he was alone with his thoughts as he walked into history.

2/ I stood back for a moment, taking in the loneliness of leadership. In the end, each senator stands alone. How they vote determines how America remembers them. There is no revision for cowardice.

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[True Blue American]

1. I remember it well!

Actually stayed up to see Sherrod fly back from his Mothers funeral in Ohio to cast that vote.
My hero.

I never stay up until midnight! The Supreme Court is refusing the ACA case before the election! Toadies?

[sarcasmo]

2. Sherrod Brown would be a great President

[raging moderate]

3. Yes. Sherrod Brown would be a great President.

You are right.

[blm]

26. This raging liberal agrees with you.

😉

[calimary]

33. +1!

Sounds like a candidate for the quote of the week...

"I stood back for a moment, taking in the loneliness of leadership. In the end, each senator stands alone. How they vote determines how America remembers them. There is no revision for cowardice."

[demmiblue]

5. Yep, and Connie would make an exceptional First Lady.

What a team!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. A great photo...........and a great Senator.

If only all the Senators had his integrity and intelligence!

~sigh~

[UTUSN]

6. We don't run our best ones - from fear of losing his/*one* senate seat?!1

I would think that winning the presidency would outweigh the one seat and would steer the seat back.

[blm]

34. He knows a lot of us wanted him to run.

[UTUSN]

35. Good to hear. May us (me) old Dems who have lost so often see the day of another great one.

[Raven123]

7. That last sentence perfectly captures this moment

[Perseus]

8. I repeat myself, these crooks do not care how they will be seen by history

they are in a mission for TODAY, for THE NOW, and they know dead people don't read history or anything else. Whether they believe in this mission of destruction and feel that all the horror the con has brought and continues to bring to the country and the world are part of the mission is another story, and that could well be, they are dead inside, they have no principles, their souls only have room for hate and greed. So, do they care what history will say about them, how America remembers them? No, they don't.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Love it

Sherrod is a true politician for the people. I know it would weaken us in the Senate - but I would love to see him as the VP pick. He can't relate to the Kasich Type Republicans.

[YOHABLO]

10. Why the hell isn't he running for President?

[zeusdogmom]

12. If my memory serves me, he thought about it

But decided it wasn't the job he wanted. I don't have a source for this - simply relying on memory from newspaper and local media.

Being a great senator doesn't necessarily mean one would also be a great president. Different skill sets - both vitally important.

I am very glad - and proud - that he is my state senator. The other one is Portman.

[yellowdogintexas]

27. Think Edward Kennedy. He did run for President

but I never thought his hear was really in it. It was as if he was responding to those who cried out for him to follow his brothers.

The US Senate was his calling and his place in history.

[soldierant]

28. That is exactly how I remember it too

I have an impression he also thought that we had a great bench and that therefore he was not needed on it, whereas he was needed in the Senate .. but I may be over-remembering or extrapolating that. I do remember his statement on it only made me love him more.

[malaise]

11. Beautiful

One of the most memorable and hilarious moments linked to Connie and Sherrod was THIS

https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/07/18/sen-sherrod-browns-wife-makes-conservative-blogger-look-silly
<snip>
A Pulitzer prize-winning columnist and wife of Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, posted an E-mail exchange between herself and an unnamed, unwitting conservative blogger to her Facebook page Tuesday night.

The blogger emailed Schultz on July 9 to say, smugly: "Dear Ms. Shultz, We are doing an expose on journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned to cover. We have found numerous photos of you with Sen. Sherrod Brown. In one of them, you appear to be hugging him. Care to comment?"

Schultz, of course, is married to Brown. She wrote back a day later: "Dear Mr. [Name Deleted]: I am surprised you did not find a photo of me kissing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown so hard he passes out from lack of oxygen. He's really cute. He's also my husband. You know that, right?"


A week has passed, but Schultz says she's received no response from the blogger. "Waiting, I'm waiting...." the columnist wrote on her Facebook page Tuesday.

[CTyankee]

14. OMG what a wonderful story!

And what a wonderful photo.

What would we do without these heroes?

[malaise]

15. I remember thinking that the nosey Bword was put in his place

It was soooooooooooooo funny.

[soldierant]

29. It was. And he IS really cute, too. (Sherrod I mean)

[demmiblue]

16. Thanks, I haven't heard that one before!

[malaise]

19. That's from 2012

It's etched in my memory. - I love when idiots and busy bodies looking for scandals are exposed and she slapped him to oblivion.

[IronLionZion]

21. The liberal media is in so deep these days

they've resorted to marrying politicians!

[malaise]

22. Eent!

[usaf-vet]

13. I wish he were my Senator. I unfortunately have the albatross Ron Johnson a Trump a$$ kisser.

If the truth ever comes out I would bet a month's SS check that he was in the loop in the WI 2016 tRump/Russian election stealing. Knew it was going to happen before a single vote was cast. Traitor.

I will call his office yet again to tell him to allow witnesses and documents. BUT, BUT, BUT I stand a better chance of convincing the sun to rise in the west and set in the east.

[Frustratedlady]

18. Me, too. Sherrod has always impressed me.

He is one of the rare Senators that you feel comfortable with and believe what he has to say.

[calimary]

17. Quote of the year! "There is no revision for cowardice."

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Gotta make a note of that one!

Our Call to Action email every week, in my Indivisible group, starts with an “Inspirational Opening” - which is always a quote.

Connie Schultz for the win, this week! But then again, it’s only Tuesday and we don’t start working on the email til the weekend.

[maddiemom]

20. You're as good a photographer as you are a writer,

Very thought-provoking.

[JohnnyRingo]

23. K&R Thanx for posting!

He's my senator and we haven't had anyone like him since John Glenn. Everything Brown does is for the working person and those who are unable and he has a job for life here if he wants it.

How do senators like McConnell and Graham keep getting re-elected when it's obvious someone like Brown appeals to those on both sides?

[Karadeniz]

24. Thanks for the uplifting post...we need them now!

[Skittles]

25. how America and HISTORY remembers them

yes indeed

[KY_EnviroGuy]

30. K&R for a historical keeper. Thank you.

I only wish we had a Senator to take pride in (*).

KY..........

* We do have a House member we love for his service - Rep. John Yarmuth.

[Eric L.]

31. I agree wholeheartedly

I won't forget his work on the bill to tax Wal-Mart, McDonald's etc when they pay workers so little they need social welfare while working roughly full time hours.

[burrowowl]

32. K&R

Great photo