This week’s free write will be focused on the arguably one
of the greatest days of my entire time here as a Senate Page, and quite
honestly a highlight of my entire internship experience. The night began with
many protestors lining up outside the capitol complex (roughly 500 I believe),
to protest the recently proposed budget cuts to higher education, and K-12
(even though K-12 wasn’t actually being cut—but that’s another story entirely).
My fellow pages and I went outside the senate to witness people exercising
their right to protest, with many of us actually supporting what they were
saying—but of course were unable to participate due to our working in the
senate very closely with the senators. Out of nowhere, this woman with a big
sign and crazy hair approaches our group, and starts ranting about how we’re
college students and somehow we’re part of the problem. What this wonderfully
ignorant woman did not understand that all of us were college students enrolled
at Arizona State, and would too very much be affected by the proposed cuts.
Regardless, the woman continued to ramble on and even began yelling at a
senator who was standing next to us. This senator—Senator Lupe Contreras—a
DEMOCRAT who voted against the budget cuts, was now being yelled about by this
crazy woman of why he was part of the problem.
I love how she royally misunderstood the situation, but felt
so vested as to come down to the Capitol to protest. Oh, America.
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