{"id":1543207,"date":"2022-07-07T16:04:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543207"},"modified":"2022-07-07T16:04:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:04:43","slug":"this-rhode-island-dem-says-she-focuses-on-real-issues-like-twerking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-rhode-island-dem-says-she-focuses-on-real-issues-like-twerking\/","title":{"rendered":"This Rhode Island Dem Says She Focuses on \u2018Real Issues\u2019\u2014Like Twerking"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthis-rhode-island-dem-says-she-focuses-on-real-issues-like-twerking%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543207&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">State senator Tiara Mack says she&#8217;s shaking her butt for &#8216;black girl magic&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tRhode Island state senator Tiara Mack (D.) \/ Credit: @libsoftiktok\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/robert-schmad\/\" title=\"Posts by Robert Schmad\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Robert Schmad<\/a> \u2022 July 7, 2022 3:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Democratic Rhode Island state senator Tiara Mack on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MackDistrict6\/status\/1545027199337742337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> a series of flyers saying she will &#8220;twerk for trans rights,&#8221; among other reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Mack was responding to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1544131356526948352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> posted on Monday by influential Twitter account &#8220;Libs of TikTok&#8221; that shows the state senator &#8220;twerking&#8221;\u2014dancing in a provocative manner that involves shaking her butt and thrusting her hips. Mack in response blasted &#8220;the media&#8221; for &#8220;trying not to cover the real issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not on MY watch,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;I #TwerkFor joy, abortion justice, body autonomy, trans rights, and intersex rights.&#8221; She then posted the flyers.<\/p>\n<p>While Mack will likely win reelection in her heavily Democratic state Senate district, Democrats face a surprisingly tough race in one of the deep-blue state&#8217;s congressional districts. Republican Allan Fung is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/rhode-island-republicans-alan-fung-congress-district-1719841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polling ahead<\/a> of all potential Democratic nominees in Rhode Island&#8217;s Second Congressional District, a seat the GOP has not held for 30 years. The Rhode Island Republican Party is using the Mack controversy\u00a0to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MackDistrict6\/status\/1544751021313986561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fundraise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other causes for which Mack shakes her butt include\u00a0&#8220;the human right to safe housing&#8221; and &#8220;black girl magic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Links to donate to Mack&#8217;s reelection campaign accompany the flyers.<\/p>\n<p>Mack faced extensive backlash for the twerking video, with user @nikki_1968, who describes herself as &#8220;an admirer of Michelle and Barack,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nikki_1968\/status\/1544310096313942016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writing<\/a>, &#8220;I&#8217;m not a conservative and I&#8217;m disappointed. Where do we draw the line on the behavior of public figures?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Girl,&#8221; Mack <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=ivy%20league%20%20(from%3Amackdistrict6)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded<\/a>. &#8220;I have an Ivy League degree and am a state senator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the senator has tried to combine politics and sex. Mack, who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MackDistrict6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calls herself<\/a> a &#8220;Queer Educator,&#8221; this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/04\/30\/rhode-island-sex-education-bill-lights-up-debate-talk-pleasure-gender-identity\/9559240002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushed<\/a> a state bill to teach 11-year-olds about &#8220;pleasure-based sexual relations.&#8221; Rhode Island parents spoke in &#8220;overwhelming opposition&#8221; to the bill, which one mother told the <em>Providence Journal<\/em> was &#8220;disgusting and inappropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats State senator Tiara Mack says she&#8217;s shaking her butt for &#8216;black girl magic&#8217;  Rhode Island state senator Tiara Mack (D.) \/ Credit: @libsoftiktok  Robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}