i want to follow-up with sara and sending olga and sonya and also patricia schroeder for her leadership. [applause] for laying down the foundation we all stand on. and so it is that when i was in graduate school i actually taught in the women's studies department in addition to being a political science student. so i taught multiculturalism, women in politics, and through that process, i became an activist if you would come and there was a group of us who were really engaged in really standing up. we organized take back to the -- take back the night marches and we got various people to come on campus to talk to us about women's issues. we even organize our own protest movement, okay? so one day we heard a woman had been assaulted in a frat house off-campus so we were sitting together in the room talking about the injustice of it all and how the women's assault issues are taken over by universities that don't want to acknowledge violence against women on campus is etc, violence in general but especially against women and to take matters into our own hands and we actually coordinated a co

thank you. >> i cannot think of a better introduction for congresswoman patricia schroeder than that.[applause] [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. my goodness. that was very moving. i also want thank albany for scheduling that wonderful vote right here. [applause] to [cheering] what we have to remember is you keep working and sometimes it works. i also want to apologize to the woman over here the sheriff for an hour now and my sticker won't stay. >> i'm sorry i meant equal rights amendment. my sticker will stay on. >> we almost didn't have her come. she said she couldn't. i said what the heck you're on the agenda, and she said that engagement was changed. any we come here i am. anyway, thank you. equal rights will ever come to florida, but us help. [applause] >> i have this terrible problem i made a mistake and i moved from colorado to florida to years ago and then i discovered what kind of a government we have down here. [laughter] you may notice i do have my pink uterus but then on and for those of you -- [applause] those of you who don't know, i was totally flattened wh

thank you. >> i cannot think of a better introduction for congresswoman patricia schroeder than that. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. my goodness. that was very moving. i also want thank albany for scheduling that wonderful vote right here. [applause] to [cheering] what we have to remember is you keep working and sometimes it works. i also want to apologize to the woman over here the sheriff for an hour now and my sticker won't stay. >> i'm sorry i meant equal rights amendment. my sticker will stay on. >> we almost didn't have her come. she said she couldn't. i said what the heck you're on the agenda, and she said that engagement was changed. any we come here i am. anyway, thank you. equal rights will ever come to florida, but us help. [applause] >> i have this terrible problem i made a mistake and i moved from colorado to florida to years ago and then i discovered what kind of a government we have down here. [laughter] you may notice i do have my pink uterus but then on and for those of you -- [applause] those of you who don't know, i was totally flattened w

i remember eleanor chmiel, patricia schroeder walking up the steps in saying we're going to take a stand against this guy for harassment commit serial harassment. so i watch these hearings. i was a spectator who wanted to see somebody mauled, like lions mauling romans. and i watched day one, day two, the entire team. i went from wanting him to be taken down to wondering what's going on here? i don't understand what i'm watching. i understand the color commentary on the screen where they say this is outrageous. i didn't understand a bumper sticker is going by me on the streets saying i believe any data. i said i believe any to what? what is going on here? i don't understand that's going on here. everything i knew, everything i picked up the college american studies cultural marxists oppressor oppressed, black people are always right, why people are always wrong -- i didn't understand how ted kennedy -- the dead kennedy could claim how howard metzenbaum, joe biden and a series of white privilege men would sit in judgment of this man who is assigned a grand parents who are sharecroppers, yo