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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 09:44 PM Jul 2016

code pink protester found credential on the road

https://twitter.com/juliegraceb/status/755227598792355840/video/1

A CODEPINK protester interrupted Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama’s speech to slam presumed GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence during the Republican National Convention Monday.

Holding up a sign that read “We Can Stop Way,” 27-year-old Washington, D.C. native screamed Alli McCracken, “stop Mike Pence’s war on women.

McCracken told reporters after being removed from the Quicken Loans arena she found her credentials allowing her near the politicians on the road.

“I was going to wait until Trump was speaking because I think it’s really, really important to speak out against his rhetoric, but I saw Mike Pence right there near me, and as a woman I am particularly offended by Mike Pence’s war on women and the things he has done to restrict reproductive rights,” she alleged. “He’s even tried to restrict equal pay for women – so I felt compelled the moment that I saw him and so I stood up.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/18/rnc-protester-interrupts-jeff-sessions-to-slam-mike-pence/#ixzz4EuQghLP6
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