Steve Daines Shuts Down Senator Warren's Remarks
Posted by Mary Catherine Dunphy (+2896) 6 years ago
Senator Daines of Montana apparently does not believe in free speech in the United States Senate. He would not allow Senator Warren to continue her remarks in opposition to the nomination of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. Shame on Senator Daines!

http://www.nbcnews.com/po...ns-n718166
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Posted by Gunnar Emilsson (+18775) 6 years ago
I bet Oddjob won't get his panties in a wad over this, like he did over Berkeley.
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Posted by Bridgier (+9547) 6 years ago
Only oddy understands the horror of liberal fascism.

NEVER FORGET THE HORRORS AT BOWLING GREEN!!
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Posted by Hannah Nash (+2537) 6 years ago
That's cool, because he allowed some men to say what Senator Warren was attempting to say.

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Posted by Mary Catherine Dunphy (+2896) 6 years ago
Yesterday Senator Steve Daines on the U.S. Senate floor was a textbook example of sexism in action!

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Posted by Mary Catherine Dunphy (+2896) 6 years ago
Fortunately, women are still allowed to read, so here it is: Correta Scott King's 1986 letter and statement to Senator Strom Thurmond, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee detailing why she thought Jeff Sessions was unqualified to be a federal district court judge.

http://documents.latimes....-sessions/
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Posted by mikeh (+303) 6 years ago
Casting the tying vote on De Vos...and now this...all within a 24 hour period. What a P.O.S.
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Posted by Mary Catherine Dunphy (+2896) 6 years ago
Montanans have headed to Senator Daines statewide offices to protest his silencing of Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Read more at:

http://billingsgazette.co...78423.html
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Posted by Mary Catherine Dunphy (+2896) 6 years ago
"Senate Rule 19 prohibits Senators for speaking ill of one another. [Senator] Warren may not have been speaking ill so much as she was speaking truthfully, and there's a difference. Saying something truthful and saying something nice are two entirely different things. And Warren was not speaking of Sessions as a senator, but as a person being considered for the country's top law enforcement agent. In that case, Warren must be given the broadest latitude for speaking freely because no stones should be left unturned when it comes to having as much power as is given an attorney general. . . .

"For Daines to play any part of this scheme is shameful, un-American and needs to be condemned. But I don't condemn his actions solely as an editor — a person vehemently and ardently opposed to anything that would look like a curtailing of free speech. I am simply doing as Coretta Scott King herself urged me years ago: I am fighting injustice in my own community.

Not letting someone speak, and using power to thwart that speech is an injustice."

That quote is from an editorial written by Darrell Ehrlick, editor of The Billings Gazette.

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http://billingsgazette.co...4e5eb.html
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