Machaela Cavanaugh, District 6 Nebraska (she is running for re-election.
Posted on 02/25/2023 5:10:50 AM PST by cotton1706
Nebraska state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (D) on Thursday pledged to filibuster every bill on the state’s legislative agenda this session if two Republican-backed bills seeking to ban both abortion and gender-affirming health care for transgender youth are not immediately withdrawn.
“If this legislature collectively decides that legislating hate against children is our priority, then I am going to make it painful; painful for everyone,” Cavanaugh, one of just 17 Democrats in Nebraska’s unicameral legislature, said Thursday at the state capitol in Lincoln. “Because if you want to inflict pain upon our children, I am going to inflict pain upon this body.”
“I have nothing, nothing but time,” Cavanaugh said, “and I am going to use all of it.”
The Omaha Democrat’s comments came during an evening debate on a bill that would alter how property tax refunds are processed in the state. Cavanaugh introduced five motions and three amendments to the bill, all of which failed.
“I want to annoy you,” Cavanaugh told her colleagues on Thursday. “I want you to genuinely be frustrated to all get out with me.”
Cavanaugh’s filibuster aims to slow the progress of two controversial bills moving through the Nebraska legislature. One of them, Legislative Bill 626, would establish a fetal heartbeat law that bans abortions after cardiac activity is detected, with some exceptions in cases of sexual assault, incest or medical emergency.
The other, Legislative Bill 574, officially titled the “Let Them Grow Act,” would bar health care professionals from providing gender-affirming health care to transgender youths younger than 19.
The measure would also prohibit state funding from being distributed “directly or indirectly” to entities, organizations or individuals who provide “gender altering procedures” to patients younger than 19.
“You cannot stop me,” Cavanaugh said Thursday. “I will not be stopped.”
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It is nice when the demons just come out in the open and expose themselves. A simple media campaign by the republicans could get this guy removed. Go to his district and just start asking questions about his position to the local reporters...
Oh my, at one level (federal) the Democrats want to abolish the filibuster, but this fellow in Nebraska has no qualm of using it over and over.
Write a bill that specifically protects children from rape and increases funding for their well being. Then have her filibuster it and point out she want to see children raped and take away health services for babies.
Sounds like a win-win.
She labels procedures which seriously harm children as essential to their care.
This is really evil. She has deluded herself into thinking she is doing "good".
She’s explaining how “our democracy” works.
Keep him talking 24 hours a day. See how long he lasts
Demon-rats are always focused on one sexual issue or another.....if not about genders it’s about screwing up everything about sex their hands touch. Disgusting creatures!
OOPS Her. Or is she?
BTTT
Give in to intimidation once and you have not just lost the battle, you have lost the war.
The best defense if offense. Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh should prepare to face the consequences of her actions. If she is a typical Demonrat her actions cannot stand the light of day. Best to have a general ethics review of the chamber so that there are no accusations of targeting...
It is a demonrat. It is probably confused on the issue too
The party of death, dismemberment and mutulation of children.
That’s the problem with the modern filibuster, they generally don’t make them talk 24 hours. Want to gum up the works prepare to stand and talk continuously. No food or bathroom breaks. If you need a break, better hope you have others that want to talk.
I call them Demonicrats.
Machaela Cavanaugh, District 6 Nebraska (she is running for re-election.
This is the way radical extremist progressive leftist democrats think.
Democrats continually PLOT to “Game the System”.
Are you a biologist?
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