When do things stop being about politics and start being about actual human decency?
Tina Smith
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Tina Elizabeth Smith is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Minnesota since January 3, 2018. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, she has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and economic equity during her time in office. Smith previously served as the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota from 2015 to 2018, where she worked on initiatives to improve access to healthcare and support for families and children.
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I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bulls---.
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I wanted him to know how much pain that caused me and the other people in my state.
I told him that I thought it was brutal and cruel. He should think about the implications of what he’s saying and doing.
I don’t know whether Sen. Lee thought fully through what it was, you’d have to ask him, but I needed him to hear from me directly what impact I think his cruel statement had on me, his colleague.
We are at a moment right now where this uptick in political violence and politically motivated attacks is definitely concerning.
It was a terrible thing to do, and I wanted him to know how I felt about it—how devastating it was to see.
I think too often in the Senate, we talk to one another through other people.
I was glad that I had a chance to speak with him directly. I’m also glad that he took those posts down.
I needed him to hear from me directly what impact I think his cruel statement had on me, his colleague
I needed him to hear from me directly what impact I think his cruel statement had on me, his colleague.
The American people that this bill was crafted for may not have an army of D.C. lobbyists to defend them but they do have us, and they do have President Trump.





