#ShePersisted Becomes New Battle Cry After Senate Silences Elizabeth Warren

[briv1016]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/she-persisted_us_589abcfee4b0c1284f295d65?

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) unwittingly gave women a new rallying cry when he silenced Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Tuesday night.

“She was warned. She was given an explanation,” he said. “Nevertheless, she persisted.”

#ShePersisted almost immediately began trending on Twitter.

Warren had been attempting to read a letter written in 1986 by the late Coretta Scott King ― civil rights hero and widow of Martin Luther King Jr. ― that criticized Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), then a U.S. attorney who had been nominated for a federal judgeship.

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I guess Warren has her 2020 campaign slogan now.

[Cha]

1. Good! The ghoulish gops have overkilled yet again..

Link to tweet

What a legacy for the history books.. they're flying high now but the higher they are the louder the thud.

History will honor Senator Elizabeth Warren

Mahalo, briv

[aikoaiko]

2. Does anyone know the history of this sort of censure?

Has it happened before? When? Under what type of context?

I'm curious. I've never heard of it before and I find it despicable.

[TexasTowelie]

4. Here is an article from the Washington Post about the origins of Rule 19

and when it was used:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/08/the-silencing-of-elizabeth-warren-and-an-old-senate-rule-prompted-by-a-fistfight/?utm_term=.e9bcc8dc78fb

[Skidmore]

3. Men are always trying to silence women.

Galls me. Our children deserve better than this. Women know it.

[ehrnst]

5. THEN they let Jeff Merkley read it aloud UNINTERRUPTED hours later

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/02/jeff_merkley_reads_coretta_scott_king_letter_about_jeff_sessions.html

[spooky3]

6. Sexism and racism often go together. I sent a campaign contrib.

to Warren.

[LWolf]

7. I'm glad they did.

It needed to be heard, and I'm not surprised that my senator stepped up to finish the job.

It certainly doesn't excuse shutting Warren down, but I'm glad he was paying attention and brought the letter, and the issue, back to the floor.

[NightWatcher]

8. Was #FuckYouIWontDoWhatYouTellMe too long?

If so, #FUIWDWYTM would work too.