Mary Sanchez: Sen. Katie Britt is not ready for prime time – at least not yet
Britt asked us to peer into her life as a mother of two and a wife, who also happens to be among the youngest women serving in Congress. Unrolling her image as a“ just-like-you” persona to American women was the goal of her unfortunate GOP reply to President Joe Biden’ s State of the Union speech. The GOP hasn’ t errored in seeing Britt as a bridge to younger, female, suburban...
by Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency
Mar 09, 2024
3 minutes
Let’s take a seat around the kitchen table of Alabama Sen. Katie Britt. After all, she just invited the nation to do so.
Britt asked us to peer into her life as a mother of two and a wife, who also happens to be among the youngest women serving in Congress.
Unrolling her image as a “just-like-you” persona to American women was the goal of her unfortunate GOP reply to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech.
The bland beige kitchen setting, the ridiculous rise-and-fall cadence of her words and the wide-eyed stares into the camera have
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