The think tank scholar made the comment during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on fossil fuels, after Whitehouse – the chairman of the panel – attacked Furchtgott-Roth’s credibility over her ties…
“And The Heritage Foundation is a club that anyone can join, not just white people. During 2021, it had hundreds of thousands of individual, foundation and corporate supporters representing every state in the United States,” Furchtgott-Roth added. in the allegedly all-white Newport-based Bailey’s Beach Club.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth called out Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse regarding allegations that all the members of his private beach club are white. In 2021, Whitehouse – a prominent critic of “systemic racism” – acknowledged to a reporter for GoLocal Providence that the “people who are running the place are still working on that,” referring to allegations that Bailey’s Beach Club has no minority members.
He added, “I’m sorry it hasn’t happened yet,” but touted the club’s “long tradition in Rhode Island.” When Whitehouse, who was first elected in 2006, initially ran for his Senate seat, he disavowed his membership and pledged to quit the club, according to GoLocal Providence, but never did. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse attacked Furchtgott-Roth’s credibility over her ties to the fossil fuel industry. According to the outlet the senator and his wife’s membership in Bailey’s goes back generations.Share this article:
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