Posts by Kathy Groob
CAMPAIGN TOOLBOX: Data Management – The Campaign Foundation
By CHRISTOPHER MASSICOTTE, NGP SOFTWARE Often, the first check a new political candidate writes is for a constituent relationship management (CRM) system. The CRM database in recent election cycles has become the foundation of everything else the campaign does. Information gathered from field, email, and online activity is used to raise money and identify votes.…
Read MoreWhite House Project’s Marie Wilson – Working to Change Everything
By Kathy Groob, Publisher If you’re a female political candidate, chances are you’ve heard of The White House Project and maybe even attended one of their campaign trainings – Vote, Run, Lead. Behind this 10-year-old women’s power movement stands Marie Wilson, businesswoman, entrepreneur and most of all, leader. A bright vibrant woman, Marie Wilson and…
Read MorePresident Obama Nominates Judge Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court
Announced today, President Obama has chosen federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. The nominee will replace retiring Justice David Souter who plans to retire when the summer session ends. Women’s organizations across the country mounted a strong lobbying effort to urge the President to select a women nominee. If…
Read MoreService Women’s Action Network: Working on Behalf of Women Veterans
By Brandy Bailey, Contributor ElectWomen Magazine Today almost 200,000 women serve in the United States military in Iraq or Afghanistan. They are the second fastest growing population of veterans. Today’s servicewomen face trauma not just from combat, but also from sexual harassment and assault from their own peers on the battlefield. The Pentagon recently…
Read MoreHonoring the Women in Service to the U.S.A.
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine This Memorial Day as we keep the soldiers of past and current wars in our hearts and prayers, let us particularly remember the women, many of whom have been called into service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Remember these women as they return to their families knowing that the responsibility…
Read MoreIn a Year of Firsts – First African American Woman Selected to Run Xerox
At Xerox, a Transition for the Record Books , By ASHLEE VANCE, New York Times After eight years of hard work turning around a company in disarray, Anne M. Mulcahy has managed to make her departure as chief executive of Xerox look effortless. During a shareholders’ meeting on Thursday, Ms. Mulcahy revealed that she would retire…
Read MoreJudy Chu Wins Primary ! – Special Election July 14th
Dr. Judy Chu has won won enouch votes in the primary for the 32nd Congressional seat in California that was vacated by Hilda Solis when President Obama nominated her for labor secretary. Chu successfully beat her main oponent Gil Cedillo for the democratic place on the ballot but fell short of the majority needed in…
Read MoreU.S. Women Mayors – Strong, Growing and Focused on Leadership
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine 112 women are serving as mayors of cities in the United States with a population of over 50,000. Hundreds more are serving as mayors of smaller cities throughout the U.S. As of January 2009, of the 246 mayors of the largest cities with populations over 100,000, 14.6% are women including…
Read MoreWanted: Justices From Venus
By Ruth Marcus, Washington Post “It contributes to the end of the days when women, at least half the talent pool in our society, appear in high places only as one-at-a-time performers.” That was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, standing by President Clinton’s side, commenting on her just-announced Supreme Court nomination. I was in the Rose Garden…
Read MoreRunning Start – Empowering Young Women to Dream Big
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine Study after study has shown that women do not think about politics as often as men – and especially when it comes to thinking about actually running for public office. Running Start was founded with one specific purpose in mind – to encourage young women to become involved in…
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