Two House Dems are planning to boycott the 2017 inauguration to protest insulting comments Trump made during the campaign about women, minorities and other groups. Reps. Katherine Clark of MA and Luis Gutierrez of IL said they are skipping the Jan. 20 ceremony at the Capitol as a matter of conscience. Clark said she respects the presidency and supports the peaceful transfer of power but that families in her district "are fearful that the anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and divisive promises that drove the Trump campaign will become the policies affecting the health and safety of every American." Gutierrez said in a statement Thursday, "I could not look at my wife, my daughters or my grandson in the eye if I sat there and attended as if everything that candidate Donald Trump had said about women, Latinos, African-Americans, Muslims ... is OK or erased from my memory."
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