Sen. Dianne Feinstein Lectures Young Environmental Activists on Green New Deal: ‘I Know What I’m Doing’
This is how @SenFeinstein reacted to children asking her to support the #GreenNewDeal resolution — with smugness + disrespect.
This is a fight for our generation's survival. Her reaction is why young people desperately want new leadership in Congress. pic.twitter.com/0zAkaxruMI
— Sunrise Movement ? (@sunrisemvmt) February 22, 2019
A group of children from the Sunrise Movement visited Sen. Dianne Feinstein‘s office to talk about how climate change will impact their lives and encourage her to support Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez‘s New Green Deal.
It did not go well.
In a video posted by the Sunrise Movement on Friday, she told the kids: “I’ve been doing this for 30 years… You come in here and say it has to be my way or the highway.”
“I don’t respond to that,” she then said. “I know what I’m doing. Maybe people should listen a little bit.”
The group, which included elementary age kids to teens, told Feinstein that their generation will bear the brunt of today’s politicians’ decisions on climate change.
Feinstein asked one young activist how old they are––16––before saying: “Well, you didn’t vote for me.”
The reaction on Twitter was strong and swift.
UPDATE –– 9:49 pm ET: You can watch full video of the exchange here, via Sunrise Movement:
