Posts by Kathy Groob
Pennsylvania Women Get Boost from Women’s Campaign Fund
Country’s Longest Running Women’s PAC Means Business By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine Twenty-seven years ago the political landscape for women was abuzz with hot button issues. The women who founded the Pennsylvania Women’s Campaign Fund (PWCF) were determined to raise money for women candidates of all political parties who would carry out their principles…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK – The Art of Political Campaigning, Washington, D.C.
The Art of Political Campaigning begins Thursday this week as Campaigns & Elections (Politics Magazine) hosts its annual three-day campaign training program that has trained more than 10,000 politicos around the world. ElectWomen Magazine will be featured with Kathy Groob, EW Publisher, speaking on a panel to discuss women’s campaign issues on Friday, June 12th…
Read MoreCANDIDATE PROFILE: Robin Abbott – Fighting for the People of the 93rd District
By Brandy Bailey, Contributor ElectWomen Magazine If you live in Newport News or James City Virginia there’s a good chance that Robin Abbott will be knocking on your door very soon. Robin is the Democratic candidate running for the House of Delegates in the 93rd district. Robin decided to run for the office when another…
Read MoreDebate on Whether Female Judges Decide Differently Arises Anew
By NEIL A. LEWIS, New York Times Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, is often quoted as saying that a wise female judge will come to the same conclusion as a wise male judge. But the opposing argument was bolstered forcefully in April by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, currently…
Read MoreFilly Absent from Belmont Stakes….But Wait, Is Vogue Next?
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine This Saturday the final and most demanding leg of the Triple Crown horse race will be run at Belmont Park in New York, but absent the winner of the Preakness Stakes, filly Rachel Alexandra. Owner Jess Jackson believes the filly would benefit from more time between races. “We know…
Read MoreSTEP-UP Democratic Women’s Leadership Workshops Scheduled for June
The 3rd annual STEP-UP Democratic Women’s Campaign Training program is holding its women’s leadership workshops on June 13th and 20th, 2009. Governor Jon S. Corzine and The New Jersey Democratic State Committee will host the free workshops designed to get more women Democratic involved and running for political office in New Jersey. The free series…
Read MoreWomen’s Political Data Gurus Making a Difference for Women in States Across U.S.
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has long been known as the as the nation’s leading source of scholarly research and current data about American women’s political participation. CAWP has expanded…
Read MoreIdentity Politics? There’s a Place in a Democracy.
by Madeleine Kunin, Former Vermont Governor & Author The cries of distress about “identity politics” which have issued from Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh over the nomination of Sonia Sotemayor to the Supreme Court make me almost feel sorry for them. Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened. Strangely, they…
Read MoreNew Power Player in Missouri Politics – HARRIETT’S LIST
by Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine Yesterday a new organization dedicated to electing progressive Democratic women to the state legislature and state-wide office was born. Harriett’s List, founded after the former Missouri Lt. Governor Harriett Woods, was formally launched Tuesday at a ceremony at University City, Missouri. “To continue Harriett’s legacy of putting women in…
Read MoreSouth Carolina This Week: Women,Their Lives & Times, A Symposium on June 4th
On June 4th the University of South Carolina, College of Arts & Sciences, will host a one-day symposium on South Carolina women — a special tribute to a group of intriguing and often unsung heroines in the history of the state and a celebration of the completion of an ambitious project, a three-volume anthology, South Carolina…
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