Posted on 01/29/2019 7:49:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The House Democratic Women's Working Group is inviting female members of both parties to wear white to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address next week as a symbol of solidarity.
"Wearing suffragette white is a respectful message of solidarity with women across the country, and a declaration that we will not go back on our hard-earned rights," Rep. Lois Frankel of Florida, the chair of the working group, told CNN.
Frankel pointed out there have never been as many Democratic women serving in Congress as there are today.
In 2017, the same group coordinated Democratic women wearing white to Trump's joint address to Congress. At the time, the women said they were wearing white not only in memory of the women's suffrage movement but also to show Trump their support for a number of issues affecting women, including affordable health care, reproductive rights and equal pay.
Wearing white has become common among female politicians who want to make a statement. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore white to the new-member swearing-in ceremony earlier this month, and wrote in a tweet, "I wore all-white today to honor the women who paved the path before me, and for all the women yet to come."
The New York Democrat added, "From suffragettes to Shirley Chisholm, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the mothers of the movement."
Hillary Clinton wore white when accepting the Democratic nomination for president in 2016.
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Frankel(y) my dear, i don’t give a damn!
Just be gone!
Will they hide their hoods, in their purses?
I think it was Newt who created last year's collage of "The Many Ugly Faces of Nancy".
White shows stains more than any other color - plus it sounds raciss to me.....
Demoncrap women wearing white? ROFLMAO!
Don’t these women know that it was Republican Party that gave women the right to vote; and that Democrats opposed voting by women?
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