Women’s Group Demands Rep. Jason Lewis (MN-02) Resign After New Audio Reveals Offensive Comments About Women
FOR IMMEDIATE: Wednesday, July 18, 2018
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Women’s Group Demands Rep. Jason Lewis (MN-02) Resign After New Audio Reveals Offensive Comments About Women
TWIN CITIES — Today, CNN released an audiofile that features Congressional Representative Jason Lewis (MN-02) making derogatory comments about female voters in the United States and women’s rights activist Sandra Fluke. In the recording, Lewis bemoans the inability to call women “sluts” in public, says women voters are “without a brain”and asks the question, “…is birth control really that important to you ladies? Is that really the most important thing that you get your condoms for free?”
In response, Karin Roland, Chief Campaigns Officer at UltraViolet Action, a national women’s advocacy organization, released the following statement calling for Rep. Lewis to resign:
“Representative Jason Lewis’ (MN-02) must resign. Immediately. His views and comments about women, including women voters in his own district, are simply vile. This toxic misogyny does not belong anywhere in society, let alone in the halls of Congress.
“Donald Trump and Jason Lewis sum up all voters need to know about today’s Republican Party and what they think of women.“
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UltraViolet Action is an online community of over 1,000,000 women and men who want to take collective action to expose and fight sexism in the public sector, private sector and the media. Find out more at weareultraviolet.org.