Women Read Coretta Scott King Letter Outside Mitch McConnell's House Tonight

[Maru Kitteh]

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Women Will Read Coretta Scott King Letter Outside Mitch McConnell's House Tonight
by Rachel Sadon in News on Feb 8, 2017 3:50 pm

As the news keeps pouring out of the Donald Trump administration, Ruth Eisenberg deleted Twitter.

"There are so many outrages every day with this administration that one is in a constant state of outrage," says Eisenberg. "I want to be able to live my life, and choose my outrages. I don't want to be outraged constantly."

But when she came home from a meeting last night, turned on the TV, and saw what happened on the Senate floor, Eisenberg swelled with anger. "The combination of the sexism of silencing one of the few female senators, and the fact that she was reading Coretta Scott King's words, outraged me."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) invoked a rarely used rule to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as she read aloud from a letter that King wrote in opposition to Jeff Sessions' nomination for a federal judgeship.

"Senator Warren was giving a lengthy speech,” McConnell said. “She had appeared to violate the rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted."

Tonight, Eisenberg and a small group of friends will take up the mantle and read King's speech on C Street NE, right outside McConnell's home.

more at the link: http://dcist.com/2017/02/washingtonians_will_read_coretta_sc.php

[font size = 4] I hope they had a great turnout.

We need to start bothering them everywhere they go. Where they live, where they eat, where they try to go on enjoying their lives as we suffer. They need to feel us and fear having to answer to us EVERYWHERE. [/font]

[Cha]

1. Wonderful.. mitch unleashed this.. Censored Senator Elizabeth Warren

and all these pubs voted for it..

Link to tweet

And, yet Senator Merkley was allowed to read Coretta's speech.. why is that?

Mahalo for this great news, Maru!

"Senator Warren was giving a lengthy speech,” McConnell said. “She had appeared to violate the rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted."

Words to live by~

Link to tweet

[Maru Kitteh]

2. Some of those are a surprise. I guess it shouldn't be, but really.

It's so SHAMEFUL!!!

[Cha]

3. It is beyond shameful.. and those names will live there

forever.. wanting a fellow Senator Silenced for reading Coretta Scott King's Letter to the Senate during Black History Month

[Maru Kitteh]

8. I can do a hand-written letter to one, my oldest daughter to a couple others

my youngest, I think two more.

They need to know WE ARE WATCHING them.

[Cha]

11. Yes.. thank you! brave wrote to Sen Murkowski

[Maru Kitteh]

14. They covered the march tonight on his house on MSNBC

The guy sitting in for Lawrence O'Donnell.

[Cha]

15. Awesome! #NeverthelessshePersisted

Link to tweet

[MontanaMama]

31. I'm calling Steve Daines.

Fucking loser. I've got his ass on speed dial anyway.

[Cha]

35. I had to look him up.. Good Luck, Montanamama!

Thank you!

[Maru Kitteh]

36. I will DO THE SAME. And a handwritten letter with my MONTANA address

prominently featured.

[MontanaMama]

40. Sweet!! Do it!

Senator Daines is reportedly more responsive to calls and letters from certain parts of our state than others, say for example, Missoula which is very blue. I am hearing that he has locked down his offices phones of late and you can't even get a human to answer. There may be some truth to that rumor because I have written and called at least 5 times since January 21st and I have not gotten one follow up email or letter from Daines. Senator Tester (D) on the other hand has emailed AND written a letter each time I've called him. Daines knows that most of us in Missoula didn't vote for him. We're apparently easy to ignore. Wrong!

[Maru Kitteh]

41. I'm just north in the Flathead Valley. Maybe that will perk his ears up a litte bit.

Some parts of the Flathead are very red while others lean pretty strongly blue.

[MontanaMama]

42. Oooooh. Dainsey Boy ought to pay attention!

I can't ell you how happy it makes me to know how many DUers are from MT! Sometimes I feel all alone - I know it isn't true - hell there were 10,000 of us at the women's march in Helena. I should know better, but still.

Give him hell MK!! I'm taking a cue from you and sending a hand written letter instead of a call.

[Maru Kitteh]

43. It would be fun if we could do a meet-up of MT DU'ers this summer

I'll bet we all feel alone fairly often. I know Mr. Maru and I do!

[bigtree]

4. k&r

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Ruth Eisenberg..........

WONDERFUL - and he didn't have the "Good-ole'-boys" club there to stop you!!!!!!!!!


This is my 1000th post - and I couldn't have picked a better posting to share my support!

[Maru Kitteh]

9. A hearty congratulations on your 1000th post!

[bdamomma]

6. silencing a US Senator

that is despicable, Senator Warren was on the floor for about 1 hr. She even read what her great predecessor Senator Ted Kennedy wrote about Jeff Sessions. The repig Caines who was the Chairman was being coached by a staffer regarding what to say. McConnell was called to come in the Senate from home when he silenced Senator Warren. I heard that on Randi Rhodes this afternoon. What a scum bucket he is.

Senator Ted Kennedy (The Lion) I am glad he is not around to see this crap.

[suffragette]

7. Glad to recommend this.

Resistance at its finest.

[ismnotwasm]

10. K&R

[Lifelong Protester]

12. I guess he wanted to poke the dragon to see

if it was really awake.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. It's DAMN woke!

[Lifelong Protester]

17. Yep.

[panader0]

16. Nevertheless, she persisted.

So must we.

[tclambert]

18. It's so sad when they make a turtle cry.

[Raster]

19. How did you make the bottom of your post bigger?

[Maru Kitteh]

23. like this

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but use the lowercase brackets instead

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you can use different values and make it

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Give it a try!

[Raster]

25. I thought the Admins had disabled most of the HTML commands....

[font size = 5]Nice! Thank you!

[Maru Kitteh]

26. Oh yeah, you have to do the

"end font" command or your
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is [font size = 7] REALLY BIG [/font]

[moonscape]

28. Thanks! Now ...

if only I weren't

[font size = 15] too old [/font]

to remember how to do this without your cheat sheet right above!

Maybe I'll surprise myself

[Hekate]

20. "Nevertheless she persisted." I expect to see this at the next rally.

[Maru Kitteh]

34. YES! I may use it for a sign at the scientists march

I'm hoping to get one going locally.

[Hekate]

37. Perfect. Think of any woman scientist: Nevertheless, she persisted.

[Maru Kitteh]

38. I think that would be ALL of them, lol. Known and unknown.

[ProudLib72]

21. I hope there is a huge turnout

and is covered on all news stations. Should be headline news tomorrow!

[DesertRat]

22. This is amazing! K&r

[Maru Kitteh]

24. It was covered live on MSNBC

[Beartracks]

27. It's even worse when you know where the rule came from...

... that McConnell used to silence her.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8617348

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[Maru Kitteh]

33. yes it is. it's disgraceful

In literally ANY OTHER administration they would have the sense to try and HIDE their white-supremacist leanings, instead they've gone mainstream, loud and proud.

[manicraven]

29. McConnell meant to humiliate her, but he brought shame upon himself.

[bluedigger]

30. Some video from this evening.

I have a friend who is a neighbor. Came home to this tonight.

[mucifer]

32. I think every democratic senator on the committee should have read it

over and over again on the senate floor to hear it would have been awesome.

[ck4829]

39. K&R