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Subject: Re: Republican response by Katie Britt
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 18:48:26 -0500
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On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 19:49:10 -0000 (UTC)
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> I heard a bit of the Republican response to the Biden state of the
> union address by Katie Britt.
> 
> I found it impossible to believe that someone that young was in the US
> Senate, a place where very very old white dudes go to die. I had to
> look her up to make sure she's not in the Alabama state legislature.
> 
> She looks like a former high school cheerleader, and she looks a good
> decade younger than she actually is. I'm looking for a cheerleading
> picture with her but haven't found it.
> 
Wikipedia says she was indeed a cheerleader in high school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Britt

> She won the election in 2022, succeeding Richard Shelby. She'd been on
> his political and legislative staff at various times and was rising
> through the ranks of various civic groups and government positions in
> Alabama. US Senator was the first election she ran in.
> 
> She ran against Mo Brooks, six-term House member from Alabama. Brooks
> ran for Senate in lieu of running for another term.
> 
> Both are Trump supporters. Brooks is so conservative, he's a founding
> member of the House Freedom Caucus. Britt is quite a religious
> conservative.
> 
> What's the difference? Britt endorsed Trump's lies about having been
> re-elected in 2020. Brooks would not endorse all of Trump's lies, but
> he did sign an amicus brief in favor of Trump in one of the lawsuits
> contesting the election, Texas v. Pennsylvania. The case went no where
> for Texas's lack of standing. Brooks even endorsed some of the
> unfounded claims of fraud. But by March 2022, Brooks said the law
> doesn't permit him to work to remove Biden in order to install Trump.
> 
> Trump withdrew his endorsement and Brooks could not get elected
> Senator.
> 
> The Trump loyalty test has no end limit, it seems.
> 
> Britt has got to be the most attractive Senator I've ever seen.



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Rhino