Thread by @capitol_REB

.@Renee_Unterman is not happy about the changes to committee chairs, including her getting stripped of her position. Talking abt lack of women leadership. legis.ga.gov/Streaming/en-U… #gapol

She’s rehashing her accomplishments regarding human trafficking, opioid overdose, child abuse, as leader of Health and Human Services. #gapol

And now @elenaparent is also speaking about the lack of women on the most important committees, let alone serving in leadership roles. #gapol

Not to be Debbie the downer, but I wish @Renee_Unterman had brought up these concerns when she was the *only* woman serving in a leadership role under Cagle. Glad it is finally being addressed still. #gapol

FYI Georgia now has one of the largest women’s caucuses in the nation at 31%. #gapol

Now Sen. Freddie Powell Sims (another female dem) is also taking to the well to talk about @Renee_Unterman being stripped of her leadership role. #gapol

Wonder if there will be a more complex discussion abt the ways @Renee_Unterman championed addressing maternal and infant mortality.. but also pushed hard for the funding of fake women's health clinics among other problematic actions. #gapol

Sen. Zahra Karinshak discussing the changes to Senate Rules making it harder to file sexual harassment complaints. #gapol

She shares that she is a survivor, 'I do not know a woman in my entire life that has not been sexually harassed.'

Sen. Zahra Karinshak: "There are women who sit with it still in their heart," on why two years is so limiting for reporting sexual harassment. #gapol

Sen. Zahra Karinshak now talking about the wider prohibitions against signs and chanting throughout the capitol. "This is the peoples house," she says. "What are we afraid of?" #gapol

Sen. Zahra Karinshak asked if she was wearing a #BlackLivesMatter pin or a pro-choice pin instead of her Airforce pin, if that would have been viewed with hostility and viewed as violating the new rules. #gapol

And now another Sen. is speaking about how women, dems, AND people of color are severely underrepresented on the most important committees (those that review and pass the most bills). #gapol (I missed the district he represents, can someone lmk?)

Sen. @valenciaseay now taking to the well in support of @Renee_Unterman ... #gapol "I've been a minority all my life and so I know the feeling very well."

ohhh rules chair Jeff Mullis takes dems to task for their own behavior of dis-empowering republicans when dems were in power. calls it "whining," and defends the chamber as being very bipartisan. #gapol

And now @SenNanOrrock talking about how she and @Renee_Unterman had "bitter battles" on the HHS committee, but were also able to find issues to compromise on. #gapol

Sen. Jennifer Jordan highlighting how Senators each represent 200,000 people of the state, and those constituents' voices will not be heard if the women they elect are not given equitable access to power. #gapol

Sen. Gloria S. Butler also taking to the well to discuss lack of female representation... #gapol

@SenGloriaButler closes by saying "Mr. President, you and the leadership need to go back and revisit the sexual harassment rules. fix them and make them right." #gapol