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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11949172" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="michigan" source="Orion">Michigan</keyword> state Sen. <keyword id="13654712" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mallory-mcmorrow" source="Orion">Mallory McMorrow</keyword> gave an impassioned floor speech on Tuesday.</li><li>She responded to a GOP colleague's claim that she's trying to "groom and sexualize kindergarteners."</li></ul>As Republican politicians and conservative media personalities have increasingly accused their opponents of being pro-pedophilia, one Michigan lawmaker took to the state senate floor on Tuesday to call out the incendiary rhetoric.State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a first-term Democrat whose district includes several Detroit suburbs, delivered a fiery floor speech in response to Republican State Sen. Lana Theis, who sent out a fundraising email last week that accused McMorrow of being "outraged" that schools "can't groom and sexualize kindergarteners."On Tuesday, McMorrow attempted to draw a line in the sand over Theis' rhetoric."I didn't expect to wake up yesterday to the news that the senator from the 22nd district had, overnight, accused me by name of grooming and sexualizing children in an email fundraising for herself," McMorrow said.The Democratic state senator went on to say her Republican colleague sought to "dehumanize and marginalize me" over her opposition to a bill similar to a new <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-ron-desantis-dont-say-gay-bill-law-2022-3">Florida law, dubbed by critics as the "Don't Say Gay" legislation</a>, which curtails educators' ability to teach children about gender identity and sexual orientation.McMorrow argued that Theis' rhetoric had gone too far, but that Democrats need to respond to such ad hominem attacks rather than ignore them."So who am I? I am a straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom who knows that the very notion that learning about slavery or redlining or systemic racism somehow means that children are being taught to feel bad or hate themselves because they are white is absolute nonsense," McMorrow added.Theis is facing a primary challenge from Republican real estate manager Mike Detmer, who former President Donald <a href="https://michiganadvance.com/blog/trump-endorses-detmer-says-sen-theis-forgot-shes-a-republican/">Trump's endorsed</a> last November.Theis' office released a statement on Wednesday."Sen. McMorrow is not naïve about <keyword id="11893346" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics" source="Orion">politics</keyword> and fundraising," Theis said in the statement emailed to Insider. "I know that because it took her mere minutes to turn her Senate floor speech into a plea for campaign donations. While Sen. McMorrow is on MSNBC preaching to her choir, I'll keep my focus on Michigan parents, who Democrats are seeking to undermine as the primary decision-makers in the education of their children."McMorrow appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the day after her floor speech.

Michigan state senator blasts colleague for accusing her of 'grooming and sexualizing children' in fundraising email

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Democratic campaign vet <keyword id="12635625" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lis-smith" source="Orion">Lis Smith</keyword> thinks the US could benefit from backing young politicians.</li><li>She told Vanity Fair younger pols could appeal "to people across the political spectrum."</li></ul>A Democratic campaign veteran said there is sometimes a "schoolmarm or school monitor vibe" from the left "policing" people from middle America.Lis Smith, a Democratic political strategist who worked on campaigns for former President Barack Obama and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pete-buttigieg-campaign-song-mr-brightside-high-hopes-lis-smith-2022-7">then-presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg</a>, appeared on an <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lis-smith-says-the-path-to-trounce-ron-desantis-is/id1232383877?i=1000570606045">episode of Vanity Fair's "Inside the Hive" podcast</a> on Wednesday ahead of her upcoming memoir, "Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story."The political strategist is currently working with Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow. The 35-year-old Democratic state lawmaker <a href="https://twitter.com/MalloryMcMorrow/status/1516453738403143681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1516453738403143681%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fmichigan-state-senator-video-grooming-sexualizing-children-fundraising-email-gop-2022-4">recently went viral for blasting her GOP colleague</a> for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/michigan-state-senator-video-grooming-sexualizing-children-fundraising-email-gop-2022-4">accusing her of "grooming and sexualizing" children</a> over McMorrow's opposition to Florida's LGBTQ+ education legislation, dubbed by activists as the "Don't Say Gay" law.In the podcast episode, Smith spoke with host Joe Hagan about getting new, younger people in political offices, especially those who break from the "stereotype of younger politicians of under 40 politicians that they're either a member of the Squad, they're super far left, they're DSA; or they're like Madison Cawthorne super far-right."The campaign strategist said it would be "a lot healthier for our body <keyword id="11893346" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics" source="Orion">politics</keyword>" to uphold young politicians who can appeal "not just to Democrats, but to people across the political spectrum.""It would be more appealing to more people if politics was a little less yell-y, screamy and a little less drawn to the extremes," Smith said, "because most people aren't in that extreme 10% of the right or that extreme 10% of the left — they're somewhere right in between."On top of embracing less extreme politics, Smith noted there is also merit to adjusting the tone and style that lawmakers portray."On the Republican side, it's clear that anger is in Vogue these days, and whoever the Republican base hates the most is the king of that day or queen of that day," the campaign vet said. "And on the left, there sometimes is ... sort of a schoolmarm, school monitor vibe, where we're policing people's language or seen as looking down on people from the middle of the country or from different backgrounds.""There is a middle ground between those two," she continued. "And I do think that there is a generation of younger politicians that has had enough of the endless, circular warfare in Washington that they are trying to sort of go for a more common sense tone."

Democratic campaign vet warns that the left's 'schoolmarm' tone is alienating middle America

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12635625" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lis-smith" source="Orion">Lis Smith</keyword> spoke to Insider about her new book, "Any Given Tuesday."</li><li>Smith earned plaudits in the 2020 campaign for her work as <keyword id="12026650" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="pete-buttigieg" source="Orion">Pete Buttigieg</keyword>'s communications advisor.</li></ul>Over a tumultuous two decades in <keyword id="11893346" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics" source="Orion">politics</keyword>, Lis Smith has seen a thing or two.She's taken gambles on underdogs like Transportation Secretary <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lis-smith-pete-buttigieg-2020-campaign.html">Pete Buttigieg</a>, advised establishment stalwarts such as former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, and mostly survived the cauldron of New York politics, working on both ends of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-cuomo-bill-de-blasio-face-dartboard-feud-report-2021-3">long-simmering feud</a> between former New York Gov. <keyword id="11909344" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="andrew-cuomo" source="Orion">Andrew Cuomo</keyword> and former New York City Mayor <keyword id="11921771" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="bill-de-blasio" source="Orion">Bill de Blasio</keyword>.Her new book, "Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story," goes behind the scenes of her time with some of the nation's most powerful Democratic lawmakers, sometimes in the midst of spiraling crises. Well before she worked for Cuomo and then briefly rejoined as an outside advisor <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lis-smith-texts-during-cuomo-sexual-harassment-scandal-2021-11">during the height of his sexual harassment scandal</a>, Smith worked for his arch nemesis, de Blasio."I basically blacked out for the next ten minutes as he talked about everything from Fiorello La Guardia to Buddhism," she wrote of her first job interview with the future mayor. Insider caught up with Smith on Thursday, and learned about her time with de Blasio and what she looks for in undiscovered star candidates.This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.Since a lot of your book is about relationships in politics, could you start out by telling me about the time you met Bill de Blasio when you were volunteering for the John Edwards 2004 presidential campaign in New Hampshire?I like to call myself the Forrest Gump of politics — but in a positive way — because I feel like I have been a random witness to just so many seemingly insignificant things that then turned out to be like big historic events. I first met Bill de Blasio in December of 2003, when I was a field organizer for the Edwards campaign during a term off from Dartmouth College. I was a field organizer for him in Keene, New Hampshire, and a bus of New Yorkers came up and the "New York for Edwards" delegation was led by none other than then-City Councilman Bill de Blasio. He stood out obviously because of his height, but he was one of those guys that was almost overly enthusiastic about knocking on doors and making phone calls, to the point that everyone else around the office sort of rolled their eyes.My first impression was that he was a bit goofy and unserious, and never, never, ever in my wildest dreams did I think I would be sitting across the table from him 10 years later, interviewing to work for him as he was about to be the incoming mayor of New York. Going back to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chuck-todd-biden-virtual-campaign-white-house-messaging-80s-90s-2021-12">when the 2020 campaign went virtual</a>, how do you think the Biden team has handled its messaging since then? Do you think the lack of in-person events hurt them later on in building a relationship with the eventual White House press corps?I think it forced them to up their game in terms of their digital campaigning, and they understand — I think more so than the Trump administration did — that a lot of the ways you reach people now is not just through traditional big legacy media outlets. That's why you've seen them lean on people like Olivia Rodrigo, Matthew McConaughey, the Jonas brothers. And I do think that some of that savvy did come out of innovations they had to make during the 2020 campaign.As for their interactions with reporters, it's a good question, but if you look back on the Biden campaign's outreach during the general election, I think it actually increased his number of interactions with local press with the number of interviews he did remotely in states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. But there's no doubt that there is no substitute for being in a scrum, and for having a traveling press corps with you every day, lobbing questions at you. I'm not saying that it affects him negatively, but it's an interesting question.How do you think the decline of local news has affected campaigns? The death of local news is a tragedy for voters and it's a tragedy for campaigns. It obviously leads to a lot less accountability for politicians. It makes it much harder for candidates to get their message out, and it puts a premium on money versus having the best policy prescriptions, or being the best campaigner. Retail politics matters much less if there are no local papers or local TV stations to go out and capture you on the campaign trail.What the decline of local media means is that the way that voters will get their information about candidates will come increasingly from paid media, from mail pieces and TV ads, and we all know that is not where you get the full truth. And it makes it especially difficult for challengers. If you are not someone who is an established name, it's really hard to break through.You've talked a bit about identifying talent, particularly candidates who might get overlooked, like a Pete Buttigieg. You recently signed on with Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow and Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval. If you could just attend town board and county legislature meetings for a year, what are the intangible qualities you'd be looking for in scouting candidates? This is so funny, because I was just saying to Mike Schmuhl, Pete's 2020 campaign manager and now chairman of the Indiana Democrats, that my dream project would be to take off an entire year and go to the big Democratic fundraising dinner in all 50 states. Now, I understand that sounds completely sick.It sounds horrible!I know, but sitting at this dinner in Indianapolis, I was completely gobsmacked by how impressive some of the speakers were that I had never heard of before in my life, that you will never read about in national publications. There are so many talented Democratic elected officials across the country. But in our party, it seems the only people we ever talk about are members of Congress and senators. I mean, for God's sake, we don't even pay that much attention to governors.And it drives me crazy because you see the Republican Party elevating governors left and right, like Ron DeSantis or Kristi Noem. There is a huge bench of mayors, of governors, of state legislators, like Mallory McMorrow, who we should be lifting up, we should be using as spokespeople for the Democratic Party.We should start thinking about what prominent national Democrats we can use to help raise money and help campaign for them to do things like flip the Michigan state Senate. And why that matters is because the states are where a lot of the key fights are going to play out following the Dobbs Supreme Court decision. We are at the risk for seeing abortion rights eroded in more and more states.Now, to go back to the premise of your question, I think what we should be looking for is — I'm not breaking any news here by saying that the leadership in Washington right now is a bit on the older side — we should be elevating young candidates, elevating millennial candidates in their 30s and 40s.We tend to think of younger politicians as either captive to the very far left or the very far right, but there is a whole crop of younger elected officials across the country that aren't on the extreme, and that can relate to the majority of voters. And those are the people that we should be elevating.

Lis Smith says the future of the Democratic Party is local and young

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Michigan Sen. Peter Lucido came under fire last week for telling a female reporter that a group of high school boys could "have a lot of fun" with her. </li><li>Fellow state Sen. Mallory McMorrow filed a sexual harassment complaint against Lucindo on Tuesday, <a href="https://www.crainsdetroit.com/government/michigan-senator-lodges-new-sexual-harassment-complaint-against-lucido">Crain's Detroit Business</a> first reported.</li><li>McMorrow alleged Lucido suggested she only beat an incumbent senator because of her looks and touched her for a long period of time that made her feel "uncomfortable." </li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>A Michigan senator who came under fire for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reporter-details-sexually-explicit-comments-from-michigan-state-sen-2020-1">telling a female reporter that high school boys could "have a lot of fun" with her</a> now faces allegations of sexual harassment from a fellow state senator, as <a href="https://www.crainsdetroit.com/government/michigan-senator-lodges-new-sexual-harassment-complaint-against-lucido">Crain's Detroit Business</a> first reported. Sen. Mallory McMorrow, 33, filed a sexual harassment complaint with the Senate Business Office on Tuesday regarding an encounter with Sen. Peter Lucido, 59, that took place when she introduced herself to Lucido during a new senator orientation in 2018.In her <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6663681-McMorrow-Complaint.html">complaint,</a> McMorrow wrote that she hoped to prove that Sen. Lucido's behavior is "not a one-off, misunderstood occurrence... but a pattern of behavior intended to demean women at the workplace and abuse a position of power."McMorrow accused Lucido of suggesting she only beat the incumbent senator because of her appearance while, at the same time, he held her lower back for a prolonged period of time."He shook my hand and, with his other hand, held my low back with his fingers on my hips, effectively upper rear, and we had a back-and-forth conversation," McMorrow told Crain's about the encounter that occurred days after the 2018 midterm elections.McMorrow added that she felt "uncomfortable" by the prolonged touch and felt she could not move away from Lucido during their conversation. When McMorrow told Lucido she had won against the incumbent senator, Marty Knollenberg, McMorrow told Crain's that Lucido "looked me up and down, raised his eyebrows and said, 'I can see why.'"McMorrow said the senator's looks and suggestion that she won because of her appearance "felt really degrading and deflating." "It was shocking," she told Crain's. "It just knocked me off my feet that that was the first interaction. But you deal with it. You try to do your job."<h2>Lucido recently came under fire for a sexist remark</h2>In response to the news of McMorrow's accusations, Lucido has vehemently denied her account and accused the allegations of being "politically motivated." "I categorically deny this allegation, which I believe is completely untrue and politically motivated," Lucido, 59, told Crain's. Although Lucido has denied the sexual harassment allegations, fellow Michigan state senators have come forward to confirm McMorrow's story. "They were standing there talking together and his arm was… reaching around her back," Sen. Rosemary Bayer told Crain's. "This is the age of consent, right? You have to have permission. You can't be touching people."The sexual harassment allegations against Lucido come shortly after 22-year-old Michigan Advance reporter Allison Donahue exposed Lucido for making sexist comments to her in front of a group of Catholic high school boys. Donahue spoke out against Lucido in a <a href="https://www.crainsdetroit.com/voices-chad-livengood/commentary-metoo-moment-arrives-michigan-capitol-lucido-outrage">first-person account of the incident</a> along with a taped recording of Lucido's comments. McMorrow said she was inspired to come forward after Donahue went public with her encounter and felt "guilty" for not speaking out sooner."Once I saw [Allison Donahue] give an interview and she said 'it made me feel small,' I felt guilty," McMorrow told Crain's. "I felt like had I said something sooner maybe this wouldn't have happened to her."Lucido's comments to Donahue prompted state leaders to launch an investigation into whether the Michigan politician violated the senate's sexual harassment policies. State leaders announced Tuesday that they would be investigating McMorrow's sexual harassment complaint along with Donahue's allegations. <h2><a href="https://www.crainsdetroit.com/government/michigan-senator-lodges-new-sexual-harassment-complaint-against-lucido">Read the story from Crain's Detroit Business here&gt;&gt;</a></h2><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reporter-details-sexually-explicit-comments-from-michigan-state-sen-2020-1">A young female reporter exposed a Michigan state senator who told her a group of high school boys could 'have a lot of fun' with her after she asked him a tough question</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microaggression-unconscious-bias-at-work-2018-6">What is a microaggression? 14 things people think are fine to say at work - but are actually racist, sexist, or offensive</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sexist-dress-codes-for-women-in-the-workplace-japan-glasses-2019-11">Women in Japan are being told not to wear glasses in the workplace - here are 5 sexist dress codes from around the world</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mississippi-republican-bans-female-reporter-from-covering-him-alone-2019-7">A Mississippi GOP candidate for governor cites his Christian faith in barring a female reporter from covering him unless she's accompanied by a man</a>

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