In the 26th Senate race, Allen and Fluke move on to General Election

Source: Easy Reader News

Sandra Fluke, who won 19.7 percent of the votes, chose to celebrate Election Night in a private manner: in her office with her closest volunteers and advisers.

Fluke, a public interest advocate, was thrust into the spotlight in 2012 when she spoke at a House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee meeting about the importance of contraception being covered by health insurance, even at Catholic institutions like Georgetown Law, where she was a student. Rush Limbaugh attacked Fluke on his radio program, calling her “a slut” and “a prostitute” who expects the state to pay her to have sex.

Limbaugh later apologized for his remarks, but Fluke rejected his apology.

“The way I look at the Rush situation is that it’s not what qualifies me – that’s my 10 years of work in public interest – but it gives people an idea of how I react when I am in the spotlight,” she said. “I was put in a difficult spot of standing up and doing the right thing and that is how I will continue to react under pressure.”
Fluke is deeply concerned with women’s issues like reproductive rights and the pay gap, but she views her platform as pro-family rather than just pro-woman.

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