“I will not yield.”
Those are the words I finally said to my fellow Democratic state Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto during the Senate floor debate over House Bill 20, the Healthy Workplaces Act, during the final days of the 2021 legislative session.
Since then, I have received so much support from Senate and House members, as well as advocates and voters. I’ve also received a healthy dose of attack from current and former lawmakers, saying “you can’t take the heat,” “you’ve done the same thing to others,” and remarkably, “you better get out if you can’t stand up and take it like a man.”