Mallory McMorrow Makes Her Case at UAW Forum: “We Do Not Have to Settle”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Speaking at this morning’s Senate candidate forum hosted by the United Auto Workers, Michigan Senate Majority Whip and candidate for U.S. Senate Mallory McMorrow said the following in her closing remarks:

“What I know is that we do not have to settle. You have three good choices on the stage. We do not have to settle for somebody who prioritizes rhetoric over results, who's never held office, who's never delivered for you. We don't have to settle for somebody who's too beholden to corporate interests to actually work alongside you.

Now I want a show of hands. How many people in 2012 were at the Michigan Capitol when Rick Snyder passed ‘Right to Work’? You were treated like criminals. The Michigan government weaponized itself against working families. Had batons, had pepper spray, had shields that kept you out of your own state capitol.

When I became Senate Majority Whip, there were a lot of people who said there's no way Democrats will ever touch ‘Right to Work.’

Do you know what's one of the first things we did? We repealed ‘Right to Work,’ and we invited all of you into your state capitol. When we took that vote, I will never forget the thunderous applause in the gallery, in the rotunda.

That is what it sounds like. That is what it feels like to take your state government back. And together, we are going to go take our country back.

Let's do it, UAW. Thank you very much.”

Watch and download McMorrow’s remarks here.

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