Kirsten Gillibrand: The #MeToo Senator
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Before #MeToo was a movement, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was advocating for victims’ rights — in the military, on campus, and in her own party.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has spent years fighting the problems of sexual assault and harassment in the military and on college campuses.
Now, the junior senator from New York is calling for a reckoning on her own campus, Capitol Hill. She has called out the president of the United States and long-time Democratic allies like former President Bill Clinton and Senator Al Franken.
That candor and her willingness to be out front, often alone, has made her both a lightning rod and one of the most prominent political faces of the #MeToo movement.
In December, she was the first to publicly call for Senator Al Franken to resign.
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