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Millienial Voices: When Will It Be Time For A Woman President: Part 1
By Heather Leslie, Guest Contributor – I realize I’m not going to win friends or influence people with this post but, whatever, I’m going to say it anyway. For those who say Hillary is a corrupt, crooked liar– you’re probably right. Welcome to politics. Show me an honest politician and I’ll show you a unicorn. They…
Read MoreAnthony Weiner is really Carlos Danger?
By Kathy Groob, Founder ElectWomen – Just when New Yorkers had begun to think Anthony Weiner had rehabilitated himself, enter Carlos Danger. Carlos Danger is an alias being used by New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner when Tweeting naked photos of his private parts to young women. Seriously? Come on voters of New York. You…
Read MoreFriday’s Food for Thought: The War on Women Includes Going After American Nuns
Not to be outdone by male elected officials who have made it their mission to restrict women’s reproductive freedom and rights, the boys club (aka The Vatican) has gotten into the act. A directive has been issued to crack down on American nuns who are spending more time on social justice issues and helping the…
Read MoreWhere are the Women? In deed–not talk!
By Paula Xanthopoulou – President Barack Obama is the the de facto head of the Democratic Party — he calls the shots, and picked Debbie Wasserman Schultz to chair the Democratic National Committee. It is allegedly against Democratic Party rules for the party to support/endorse one Democrat over another in a primary. And any time the…
Read MoreHow would a female presidential candidate fare if she had Newt’s fidelity problem?
By Kathy Groob, ElectWomen Magazine – Clearly the religious right doesn’t care about the sanctity of marriage as long as it’s between a man and a woman. When South Carolina Republicans voted overwhelmingly for Newt Gingrich on Saturday, they proved that infidelity and divorce, even multiple times, isn’t enough to keep a candidate out of…
Read MoreDistrict 5 supervisor seat should go to a woman
Editorial by Kimberly Ellis – If you were to compare the percentage of women serving on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors (just 27 percent, or three of 11 seats) with the percentage of women serving in office in other nations, San Francisco’s government would fall somewhere behind Rwanda, Angola and Ecuador. As District Five Supervisor…
Read MoreThe Men Behind The War On Women
By Laura Bassett for Huffington Post – A group of men with no real background in law or medicine, but blessed with a strong personal interest in women’s bodies, have quietly influenced all of the major anti-abortion legislation over the past several years. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops may be one of the quietest, yet…
Read MoreIf Chris Christie were a woman . . .
By Ruth Marcus for The Washington Post – On the subject of Chris Christie’s weight: If he were a woman, we wouldn’t be talking about it. You might think that’s because it would be too dangerous to go there, mentioning a female politician’s weight. No, although that’s true, too. Rather, we wouldn’t be having this…
Read MoreIn FAA standoff, GOP played chicken with American jobs
Editor’s note: Donna Brazile, a CNN contributor and a Democratic strategist, is vice chairwoman for voter registration and participation at the Democratic National Committee, a nationally syndicated columnist and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. She was manager for the Al Gore-Joe Lieberman presidential campaign in 2000 and wrote “Cooking With Grease.” By Donna Brazile for…
Read MoreWhy Political Balance on Supreme Courts Matters
By Kathy Groob The 2010 elections resulted in a Republican-dominated Ohio Supreme Court, with six of the seven justices from the GOP. The lone Democrat – and newest member of the court – is Justice Yvette McGee Brown, who shared the campaign ticket with Governor Ted Strickland. Before leaving office, Gov. Strickland appointed Brown to…
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