Recent political developments in his home state of Rhode Island suggest that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D.) could face increasing pressure to resign in shame over his ties to a racist beach club.
Rhode Island state senator Kendra Anderson on Tuesday announced she would not seek reelection, instead endorsing a 23-year-old Black Lives Matter activist to take her place. The 64-year-old Democrat explained that her endorsement of Harrison Tuttle, executive director of the Black Lives Matter RI PAC, was motivated by her belief that "the people most impacted by the systems of structural oppression should be empowered to create new systems that work for everybody."
Several months before announcing his candidacy, Tuttle was quoted in a June 2021 local news report denouncing Whitehouse for refusing to pressure Bailey's Beach Club, an exclusive Newport establishment under fire for promoting white supremacy, to diversify its membership. "After a year of protests calling for change, Sen. Whitehouse is in a position to make it happen and has passed the buck," Tuttle said. "It's past time that Sen. Whitehouse used his platform and make his actions match his rhetoric. Sen. Whitehouse should publicly and vigorously support increased diversity and accessibility and clubs like his, which have long held shut their doors to people of color."
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