In the last five minutes of Sen. Cory Gardner’s (R-Colo.) town hall on Tuesday morning, an unlikely voice stepped up to the microphone. Haven Coleman, an 11-year-old Coloradan fighting for the courage to speak, urged the senator to start a climate solutions caucus in the Senate. “If all you need is more information, I can come visit the energy committee and do a PowerPoint for you,” she said. Coleman had done this at a town hall before when she pushed Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) to support clean energy in April.
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What’s more: She wasn’t the first to see a public forum as the perfect chance to pressure politicians to act on climate change. During several recent town halls, there’s been a trend of young women seizing the opportunity to challenge their leaders:
Read/watch the Mother Jones story - “Young Girls Keep Going to Town Halls and Owning Republicans—It’s Amazing.”
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