Hundreds of protestors gathered outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) home in Louisville Friday night to read Coretta Scott King’s 1986 letter against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, which Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was barred from reading earlier this week, The Huffington Post reported.
The protestors, using the hashtags #LetterToMitch and #LetLizSpeak, read the letter from the civil rights icon that Warren attempted to finish during a speech about her opposition to Sessions’ nomination as attorney general. She was silenced using a rarely-used Senate rule and McConnell explained the decision in now-infamous words that have become a feminist meme online.
“Sen. Warren was giving a lengthy speech,” McConnell said then. “She had appeared to violate the rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.”
Last night, protestors used those words against him, showing up with posters bearing the quote with Warren’s face on them.
@womensmarch @SenWarren We finished reading Coretta Scott King’s letter in front of McConnell’s house In Louisville tonight. #LetterToMitch pic.twitter.com/HnYJsKrAfk
— Amy (@AmyOlive) February 11, 2017
Sessions was later confirmed as attorney general, but not before many Senate Democrats finished Scott’s letter in honor of Warren. It appears last night’s protests were to continue in that effort.
About 400 people in front of @SenateMajLdr‘s house in Louisville to read a #LetterToMitch tonight pic.twitter.com/oapi7rNnHr
— Molly Shah (@MollyOShah) February 11, 2017
It is not clear if McConnell was home during the protests.
The Turtle really screwed the pooch on this one. He had the votes in his pocket and if he let Sen Warren read the letter, it might have been old news the day after. But when men lose patience or get that itch to chastise a woman who wants out of the kitchen, all kinds of stupid stuff happens.
Sometimes when you fight a battle you know you’re going to lose, good things happen.
Do Mitch and Elaine really live at this address or is it a dummy residence providing Mitch access to the ballot?
The area looks a tad downmarket for our beautifully tailored power couple.
http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Mitch+McConnell+Senate+Committee+Holds+Confirmation+LDvkV0sOuwEl.jpg
We all heard his prophetic words at the Convention last summer, but I think they bear repeating here.
Apparently, Mitch wasn’t listening then, either.
Last night on Bill Maher, Piers Morgan (whoever the fuck he is) was pooh poohing the spontaneous protests that have broken out all over the USA from the day after the inauguration on as “hysterical”. The Town Hall protests in places like Tennessee and Kentucky bode well for the notion that the GOP has overplayed its hand, just like they did during the Reagan years, and believe that a majority of the country buys 100% into their inbred minority viewpoint of the World and Country.
I’m glad that these protesters persisted.