'This isn’t about basic policies or political careers; there are people’s lives that are on the line.' –ihssaneleckey
at Brett Kavanaugh’s September 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings. She was anxiously pacing in the living room of her Brookline, Massachusetts, home, and more than anything, she felt unsafe — like she couldn’t go past her doorstep.
“I just felt that the questions were not just for Dr. Ford,” Leckey, who is now running for Massachusetts Representative Joseph Kennedy III’s seat, continued. “It was for everyone who [is] a survivor. I felt like that’s an experience that has happened in different forms in my life, where I wasn’t believed or [was] asked to be quiet or dismissed…as if I was assumed to be a liar. It was like I was living through her experience.
It was then, watching the hearings in that particular political environment, that she says she had a “fight-or-flight” moment: She could continue to fight for the rights of survivors and underrepresented people like herself, or she could continue pacing her living room.Leckey left her job as a Wall Street regulator at the Federal Reserve in October 2018 and officially
A career in politics is not what she’s seeking in her run for Congress; instead, she’s “seeking justice,” she said.
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