Sen Tammy Baldwin championed marriage equality w/ the Respect for Marriage Act, yet she used her tim

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I want you all to know that WI has a great Senator in Tammy Baldwin. We hear so much about our other crappy Sen Ron Johnson but Balwin is good for WI and for the USA!!


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Senator Baldwin championed marriage equality with the Respect for Marriage Act, yet she used her time on the Senate floor to uplift the activists who fought so hard to get this done.

I’m very grateful for my friend @SenatorBaldwin
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‘Her leadership was critical’: Tammy Baldwin guides same-sex marriage bill through extremely divided Senate
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/politics/tammy-baldwin-same-sex-marriage/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2022-11-30T01%3A31%3A05&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_medium=social




By Alex Rogers, CNN
Published 7:37 PM EST, Tue November 29, 2022

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat from Wisconsin, during a news conference at the US Capitol on Tuesday, November 29, 2022.
Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images
CNN — 

Hours before the Senate voted to protect same-sex marriage rights, Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin tapped twice on the wooden table before her for good luck.

“I’m not a superstitious person,” the Democrat told CNN. “But I still have to do that.”

Baldwin needed not worry; She had not left the rights of LGBTQ people like herself up to fate. The Senate passed the bill 61-36 on Tuesday, five months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and left the left fearful about what six conservative justices could do.

In an interview at her hideaway office in the basement of the Capitol, Baldwin – the first out LGBTQ member of the Senate – noted two key moments in the passage of the bill, which would repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and establish into federal law that same-sex marriages in one state must be recognized by another.

The first was on June 24, when the court decided in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to undo the constitutional right to an abortion. In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that the court should also reconsider past rulings built from the same legal ground, including those protecting same-sex marriage and access to contraception. ................................................................

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1. Minority Leader McConnell voted against the bill

I wonder what he might have to say to Sen. Duckworth? Or to his own wife? This bill means he can travel with his wife anywhere in the country and have his marriage recognized, instead of being at the mercy of some bigoted yokel who doesn't think White men should marry Asian women.

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2. McConnell cares only about McConnell and his own power.

I’m hoping that he retires now that he’s been denied the Senate leadership for another two years. He needs to fade away and never be heard from again.

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3. So, of course, did Little Narco and Lindsey

If only Republicans were as quick to grasp irony, as they are dark money.

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