i don't know if she's here, but she wrote a wonderful book about helen ring robinson who was the firstoman elected to the colorado senate. and she was the second woman elected in the united states to a state senate. a very distinguished woman and part of a huge progressive movement that was sweeping colorado at that time. unfortunately, there was a little backlash that happened that maybe some of you have heard about. ludlow and all the little labor violence up there and the governor would refuse to send out the national guard and finally president wilson had to call out the troops and all of this. and helen ring robinson was very involved in that because she was involved with children's rights, you know, equal pay with minimum wage, with all these good progressive issues. and she even got molly brown to donate $1,000, which in those days was a whole lot of money to help the ludlow families that had been affected by this terrible event that went on. and after her four years in the senate, she said enough. it's gotten too crazy up there. i said to people when i was reading senator pasco

and helen ring robinson was very involved in beca s w involved with children's rights, you know, equal pay with minimum wage, with all these good progressissu and she even got molly brown to donate $1,000, which in those days was a whole lot of money to help the ludlow fa that had been affected by this terrible event that went on. and after her four years in the senate, she said enough. it's gotten too crazy up there. i said to people w i was reading senator pascoe's book that we ought to send that book around to a lot of people who are currently in officeit was rk then, too. context.ives you a little she did live through it. well, then in 1916, montana sent wonderful jeanette rankin. anshe immediately went there and voted against the war. she gotdef and went back again, you know, right before world war ii, went back and voted. she was consistent. but there is a marvelous picture in the national archives of her being sworn in on the house floor. there is not another male other than the ones that had to perform the ceremony on the floor. but the entire gallery is ringed in women in whit