On the recordMay 21, 2019
What an amazing day: 100 years ago, the Congress voted out a resolution to empower women with the right to vote. What is interesting, the last day, the last State, Tennessee, when the vote was taken, or when it was about to be taken, the then-Speaker, who was against it, wearing a red rose, said: We have got the votes. But there is nothing like the power of a woman and the power of a mother. And a young legislator got a letter from his mother that very morning that said: Son, be a good boy, and vote to let women vote. And, lo and behold, Tennessee ratified that right because that 24- year-old voted to let women vote. It is an important time now for women to be empowered, because the States of Alabama and Texas and Mississippi and Missouri and others are now trying to reign back the rights of women and the right to choose. We respect other values. We respect the Constitution and the Ninth Amendment, but Alabama and Mississippi and Texas and Missouri, we are not going back, because women got the right to vote. And just like that young man, be a good boy and leave women alone, for them to choose their own right, the right to vote. ____________________
