Julie Kleinbach
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Representative Zephyr has 5 minutes to make remarks.
(Re-posting Erin Reed's live coverage of the Montana Leg)
03:31 PM - Apr 26, 2023
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Julie Kleinbach
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In response to Julie Kleinbach.
"This legislature has systematically attacked that community. We have seen bills targeting our art forms, our books, our history, and our healthcare. And I rose up in defense of my community that day, speaking to harms that these bills bring."
03:33 PM - Apr 26, 2023
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Julie Kleinbach
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In response to Julie Kleinbach.
Rep Casey Knudsen is calling this self protection.

Says they will exercise the right to do so, because she stood up and raised up her microphone to give her people a voice.
03:42 PM - Apr 26, 2023
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Julie Kleinbach
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In response to Julie Kleinbach.
Representative Howell, nonbinary rep:

"We are here because we are struggling with a debate we have had since the beginning of this session on a set of bills. Bills that directly impact the safety of the LGBT community. Not one Dem brought any of those bills."
03:43 PM - Apr 26, 2023
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Julie Kleinbach
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In response to Julie Kleinbach.
"It is deeply unsurprisingly to me that the community responded the way it did. Its not just one of our own that has been silenced. It happened after a session where bills have targeted us, struggling for equal treatment under the law."
03:44 PM - Apr 26, 2023
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Julie Kleinbach
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In response to Julie Kleinbach.
"The right to protest is a clearly upheld right in the state and US constitution and we took oaths to protect that constitution."
"Though I love my job, I have faced a series of deeply offensive behaviors. There [is a] pattern of unwillingness to listen to a diverse set of opinions in front of us."
03:45 PM - Apr 26, 2023
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Julie Kleinbach
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In response to Julie Kleinbach.
"A yes vote on this motion puts our Democratic process and job as legislators second."
03:46 PM - Apr 26, 2023
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Julie Kleinbach
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In response to Julie Kleinbach.
Says that this isn’t about the blood on your hand comments.

And yet it is.

Because what happened on the 24th is a direct result of silencing her unlawfully.
03:50 PM - Apr 26, 2023
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Julie Kleinbach
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In response to Julie Kleinbach.
Minority leader Abbott: “I wish we were debating other things on this floor today. I wish the gallery was full. I disagreed with you not allowing the representative to speak. You didn’t take that path.”
03:51 PM - Apr 26, 2023
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Julie Kleinbach
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In response to Julie Kleinbach.
“There is an opportunity cost for choosing this path. We don’t have a state budget. Today I will vote in support for constitutional principles.”
03:51 PM - Apr 26, 2023
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Julie Kleinbach
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“The disciplinary actions proposed ensure the safety of the body”

(Literally kicking out the trans woman they hate and silencing her for the rest of the year)
In response to Julie Kleinbach.
03:53 PM - Apr 26, 2023
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Julie Kleinbach
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In response to Julie Kleinbach.
Motion passes. Rep Zephyr will be censured for the rest of the session. Party line.

😭😡
03:57 PM - Apr 26, 2023
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