Woman tells Mitch McConnell if he can answer her questions, she’ll ‘sit down and shut up like Elizabeth Warren’
Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell was confronted Tuesday by hundreds of protesters and a reference to Sen. Elizabeth Warren during a luncheon with local business leaders in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.
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The Louisville Courier-Journal reports that at the end of the senate majority leader’s speech, a handful of critics who were able to RSVP seats for the event fired-off questions at McConnell.
One woman, identified by the Associated Press as 54-year-old Rose Perkins of Georgetown , Kentucky, stood and wagged her finger at the senator, questioning him about the number of people on welfare and the loss of coal mining jobs in the state.
“If you can answer any of that I’ll sit down and shut up like Elizabeth Warren,” Perkins said, a reference to McConnell invoking a Senate rule earlier this month to silence the Massachusetts Democrat during her speech opposing the confirmation of Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general.
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There were chuckles from around the room, including from McConnell, who then said, “I hope you feel better now.”
“I do, I do, I do,” Perkins says, in video from Courier-Journal.
According to the newspaper, the senator answered a few more “friendlier” questions before leaving the event, ignoring questions shouted by protesters.
In recent weeks, numerous GOP members of Congress have been confronted by protesters at town halls in their home districts.
