Elizabeth Warren Is The Latest High-Profile Democrat To Rally In GOP Territory

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Elizabeth Warren Is The Latest High-Profile Democrat To Rally In GOP Territory
The Massachusetts senator is hitting the road for a town hall this weekend in Nashville, Tennessee, focused on fighting the GOP's tax cut agenda.

WASHINGTON ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is headed to Nashville, Tennessee, this weekend for a town hall focused on protecting Medicaid, joining other prominent Democrats fanning out in Republican-held districts across the country to protest the GOP’s legislative plans.

Warren will join the Tennessee Democratic Party, which is hosting the town hall on Saturday, to “fight back against Republicans’ dangerous agenda to put billionaires over working people’s health care,” per an invitation obtained exclusively by HuffPost.

While Elon Musk wields a chainsaw in Washington and a Republican-controlled Congress prepares to give tax breaks for billionaires, a town hall gives people the chance to come together, share their stories, and voice their concerns,” Warren said in a statement.

“Cutting health care for new mothers on Medicaid and threatening Social Security benefits while funding tax cuts for the rich is recipe for disaster. The people of Tennessee deserve to be heard in this powerfully important moment,” she added.
The event is also aimed at putting some pressure on far-right Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), whose district lies just outside Nashville. Ogles has refused to hold town halls and recently introduced a far-fetched amendment to the Constitution that would allow President Donald Trump to seek a third term in office.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/medicaid-elizabeth-warren-town-hall_n_67eb4457e4b0b5d66dd03593


And, no, she is not going to a rich persons ‘wine cave’ to speak. This is deep red Tennessee.

[Jirel]

1. Please let these tours continue.

I hope she takes a long tour, and after a break Bernie and AOC get back on the road again. These events are badly needed to inform and rally people to resist.

Honestly, I’d hope that these town halls become the Dem version of the rethugs always wearing a flag pin. It should be shameful for a Dem if they aren’t touring America in spates for town halls, in a rotation, it doesn’t have to be an exhausting, full time thing, but every one of our congresscritters should be out doing this kind of organizing.

[CTyankee]

2. That's a good idea. A kind of "each one reach one" as we used to say and do in the anti-Vietnam War protests.