Erin Maye Quade participated in a convention to attempt and secure her nomination for Minnesota State state senate while in active labor. She went into labor 4 hours before the event started.
She had contractions while giving her speeches and responses. She asked her opponent if he would be willing to suspend the convention and take the race to a primary but he declined. The delegates first round of voting was close enough to trigger a second round of balloting but Quade withdrew from the race so she could get to the hospital and give birth.
Maye Quade’s supporters feel certain that had a candidate been experiencing any other medical emergency — a seizure or heart attack, for example — the convention would not have proceeded.
“While we were in awe of her strength, it was actually horrifying to watch a woman go through this vulnerable experience with nobody with the power to do so stepping in and putting an end to it,” McBride said.
Clare Oumou Verbeten, a candidate for another state Senate seat, said it hurt her “to see this very public display of a Black woman pushing through pain.”
I cannot post links but this is quoted from the Washington Post article.
I watched the videos of her speech mid-contraction and she delivered her speeches so eloquently and did not miss a beat. Very impressive, and I hope she continues her journey because we could definitely use someone like her in a position of leadership.
@itsmaibirfday A living example of just how strong women really and truly are even as it illustrates just how inconsiderate and callous and compassionless men are..using that advantage to press their own cause.
I am proud of her strength and determination and heartbroken she had to do that.
I agree that it is beyond comprehension that anyone would use a laboring woman's pain to his advantage; however, I can't throw all men in the same category as this guy. There are many kind and compassionate men who would have responded in the same way we would have. Her opponent is clearly not one of those men, and that behavior will not bode well for him in the long run. I too hope she runs again!
@livingfree You are definitely correct... I should have said "some men". There are many very aware and good , kind men. I apologize if I seemed to bne "tarring them all with the same brush"
@enkasongwriter The deal isn't final yet, and it may yet fall through. There are several regulatory approvals that would need to happen, and those are not certain. Also, both Tesla and Twitter stocks are falling pretty quickly on the news, and Musk is attempting to leverage his Tesla stock holdings to complete the deal. If Tesla stock falls enough, he may not be able to use that leverage, and he doesn't have the liquid cash to fulfill his offer. There is also a $1B (yes, billion) penalty called a "break fee" for backing out of the deal (for either side), and while if Twitter backed out (not likely), they could write off that sum as an expense for the cost of doing business, for Musk, paying the break fee would fall directly on him, not Tesla, since he is making the offer in his own name. On the other hand, if Tesla stock continues to fall, he may find that it would be cheaper for him to pay the break fee than to proceed with the buyout under the current stock leveraging structure of the deal.
In addition, he may run into some serious issues of world politics and business economics. Much of the material for the batteries that Tesla makes comes from China, and China was completely rebuffed by Twitter when they demanded that Twitter censor Hong Kong news over the last few years. If Musk does finish the acquisition, China will likely make the same demands again, and for business reasons, he would be hard pressed not to agree. However, his selling point for buying Twitter is to restore unfettered free speech on the platform, and if he chooses to censor tweets or other information based on the demands from China, he will be shown to be a hypocrite. If he chooses not to censor, China could easily retaliate by embargoing the supplies Tesla needs for their cars. It's a sticky situation, and I'm not altogether certain that it will actually come to pass in the end.
First Chris Rock, now Dave Chapelle.
Last night Chapelle, who was on Stage at the Hollywood Bowl for the Netflix is a Joke Fest, was attacked by a 23 year old man with a knife shaped like a gun. Lots of concern about how the man got through security which is tight at the Hollywood Bowl.
Chapelle was ok.
Chris Rock, who performed earlier in the evening came back on stage with Chapelle on stage moments after the attack and joked: "Was that Will Smith?"
I put this here because I felt after Smith attacked Rock, we might get more of these incidents happen to performers on stage. I don't know where this "attack the comedian/performer" behavior is headed, it feels like a type of t "turning" happening.
https://abc7.com/dave-chappelle-attacked-tackled-hollywood-bowl/11817178/
@lovendures you know, I have not been a fan of how the whole Chris Rock and Will Smith fiasco has been handled. Two wrongs don't make a right. Both of them were wrong. What Chris did was not comedy, it was abuse. Verbal abuse is just as harmful and wrong as Smith's physical abuse. I hate the fact that only one of them was called out for inappropriate behavior. Both forms of abuse needed to be addressed in such a situation. It is sad that there are copycat attacks occurring.
@lovendures @cindy I think both of you are spot-on. The times have changed (maybe part of The Great Turning?) and that kind of mean, if it was ever funny, isn't so funny anymore. It is abusive. I think because it's found its way into our everything -- politics, social media, TV -- people feel both immune to it and tired at the same time. It's bound to change.