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Records Contradict Warren’s Claim She Was Fired For Being ‘Visibly Pregnant’

Ryan Saavedra
Records Contradict Warren’s Claim She Was Fired For Being ‘Visibly Pregnant’
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Newly-uncovered county records contradict the claim that Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has repeatedly told while on the campaign trail as part of her stump speech where she claims that she lost her elementary school teaching job because she was “visibly pregnant.”

“Minutes of an April 21, 1971, Riverdale Board of Education meeting obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that the board voted unanimously on a motion to extend Warren a ‘2nd year’ contract for a two-days-per-week teaching job,” the Free Beacon reported. “That job is similar to the one she held the previous year, her first year of teaching. Minutes from a board meeting held two months later, on June 16, 1971, indicate that Warren’s resignation was ‘accepted with regret.'”

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