Now, best we can tell, Sandra Fluke, she's a gender activist, and she was at Cornell from 1999 to 2003. She got a BS in policy analysis and management and feminist gender and sexuality studies. And while she was there she organized activities centered on the far-left feminist and gender equality movements, and she went to a lot of rallies supporting abortion, protests against the war in Iraq, efforts to recruit other women's right activists to campus.
One of her pet causes is domestic violence. So this is why the Democrats wanted, at the last moment, to call her as a witness to Darrell Issa's committee without Issa having a chance to vet her on who she was and what the point was. When Issa said, (paraphrasing) "No, you asked for Barry Lynn," this is a 4:30 in the afternoon the day before the hearing, "you asked for Barry Lynn and we don't have time. She doesn't have any expertise in anything we're talking about. We're talking about Obama, the president, and can he or can he not mandate contraception be provided by the Catholic Church and its schools and so forth, what's her expertise in this?" There isn't, we can't find any. So the Democrats held their own press conference made to look like a subcommittee hearing. And that's what all this is.
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