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Ptah

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Thu Feb 9, 2017, 01:12 PM Feb 2017

Montanans head to Daines offices statewide to protest Warren silencing

MISSOULA — Mo Essen called Sen. Elizabeth Warren's office on Wednesday to apologize.

Essen, from Missoula, said Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines' silencing of Warren on the Senate floor Tuesday was uncalled for.


Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, was reading a letter that civil rights leader Coretta Scott King wrote in 1986 protesting Jeff Sessions' nomination as a federal judge. At the time, he was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama. King argued that Sessions had used his political power "to intimidate and chill" black voters; testimony to the same effect eventually led to his nomination being withdrawn.

Three decades later and Sen. Sessions has been nominated for U.S. attorney general.


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Montanans head to Daines offices statewide to protest Warren silencing (Original Post) Ptah Feb 2017 OP
While I applaud their efforts, he couldn't care less. old guy Feb 2017 #1

old guy

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1. While I applaud their efforts, he couldn't care less.
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 01:44 PM
Feb 2017

The people protesting didn't vote for him anyway so he loses nothing. To his supporters it was just red meat.

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