Elizabeth Warren, Republicans both fundraise off her claims of being fired during pregnancy
As details of one of her signature stump anecdotes about being fired from her role as a first-year public school teacher after becoming"visibly pregnant" presents new questions for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the Democratic front-runner is not only pushing back but fundraising off of the criticism.
The Warren campaign later followed with its own blast, using the moment to ask supporters chip in for the fight. "Now this was a long time ago, but we know this kind of stuff still happens today, sometimes subtly and frankly sometimes not so subtly. So, I get out, and on the campaign trail, I tell my story. And I've asked other people to tell their stories as well. I think that's a good way to fight back," Warren continued.
Warren also detailed the interaction in her 2014 book, “A Fighting Chance,” which she wrote two years into her time in the Senate. In between when Warren was hired and when she later took that course, school board meeting records show that Warren was offered a job for the following year in April of 1971, when she was about four months pregnant.
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