California GOP senator wants public apology after Vietnam speech 'silenced'By Joseph Weber Published March 06, 2017 FoxNews.com
FILE: Feb. 23, 2017: California state GOP Sen. Janet Nguyen, removed from the chamber after refusing to end a speech critical of former legislator Tom Hayden and his anti-Vietnam war activism. (AP)A California Republican state senator removed from the chamber floor during a recent speech critical of anti-Vietnam War activist Tom Hayden is calling for a public apology from the leader of the Democrat-controlled Senate.“My voice is my constituents’ voices. And when I cannot speak, they are the ones who are silenced,” state Sen. Janet Nguyen told Fox News on Monday. “They deserve the apology.”
Her late-February floor remarks were delivered two days after the Senate held a celebratory memorial for Hayden, a student radical in the 1960s who helped organize protests against the war. He later was elected to the state legislature and married actress Jane Fonda, becoming an elder statesman of the country's left. Hayden died in October.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hiXDIuaUNsDemocrats said Nguyen was told to stop speaking and escorted from the Senate floor by several officers because she violated chamber rules. They said she could have spoken had she made the appropriate motion later in the session.
However, the Feb. 23 incident has become a rallying cry for fellow Republican lawmakers and their supporters, many of whom said it was an example of liberals shutting down speakers with whom they disagree. The controversy was similar -- with the party roles reversed -- to the furor in Washington over Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren being shut down on the floor of the U.S. Senate last month.
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