To make it worse, 10 women, all Republicans, voted against free tampons.
Idaho State Rep. Rod Furniss offered his fellow legislators a lesson in basic biology this week.
“We just kind of approached him and asked him if he would be interested,” Hendrix later told The Daily Beast. “And he said yes.” “I think he did do great,” she later said. Even so, one of the female legislators took offense to a male presuming to champion this issue.Young, a Republican, put a conservative slant on her intimation that Furniss was being sexist.
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