Posts by Kathy Groob
Special Election Gives L.A. City Council Its Only Woman
Although 54% of Los Angeles residents are women, none of them held seats on the 15-member city council—until today. Nury Martinez defeated (pdf) Cindy Montanez in a runoff for the Sixth District seat to re-establish a female presence on the council that has been historically thin and intermittent at best. Only 17 women have been…
Read MoreMichelle Nunn Enters 2014 Georgia Senate Race
Huffington Post – CLARKSTON, Ga. — Georgia emerged as a battleground state Monday in the fight for control of the U.S. Senate as Democrat Michelle Nunn announced plans to run for her father’s old seat, joining a crowded field of Republican contenders and setting off what will likely be a fiercely contested and costly race.…
Read MoreAlison Grimes U.S. Senate Campaign Kickoff Tuesday in Lexington
Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes will hold her official campaign kickoff event and rally to defeat the most powerful Republican in the country, Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, July 30th at 5:30 p.m. The event will be held at the Carrick House, 312 North Llmestone Street, Lexington KY. All supporters are welcome and…
Read MoreSpecial Election for State Senate Seat in California Tuesday
By John Ellis — The Fresno Bee – Few among California’s political cognoscenti expected the special election in the Valley’s 16th Senate District to become an expensive, heated, nip-and-tuck showdown between Democrat Leticia Perez and Republican Andy Vidak. But that’s exactly what has happened since Vidak almost won the strongly Democratic district in the primary. Now…
Read MoreEMILY’s List Puts Kentucky’s Elisabeth Jensen on “The List”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, put Elisabeth Jensen, candidate for Congress in Kentucky’s Sixth Congressional District, “On the List.” The EMILY’s List community now stands more than two million members strong. “On the List” is a way to ensure EMILY’s List members can engage with and…
Read MoreThe Grimes Road Map to Defeat Mitch McConnell
By Kyle Trygstad, The Hill – For Democrats to win statewide in Kentucky, they must run up the score in urban areas without turning off voters in the state’s agricultural and coal counties. That’s as hard as it sounds — especially when a candidate can be painted by the competition as unsupportive of coal, one of…
Read MoreNorwegian victim receives jail sentence for reporting rape in Dubai
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/New York Times – DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Norwegian woman who was sentenced to 16 months in jail in Dubai for having sex outside marriage after reporting that she had been raped said Friday that she had decided to speak out in hopes of drawing attention to the risks to outsiders…
Read MoreHelen Thomas, pioneering White House journalist, dies at 92
By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News Famed White House journalist Helen Thomas has died at the age of 92. The Gridiron Club and Foundation, a journalistic organization in Washington, D.C., confirmed Thomas’ passing to NBC News on Saturday. Thomas died on Saturday morning at her Washington apartment after a long illness, the club said…
Read MoreThe force behind EMILY’s List
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS for POLITICO – Ask around about EMILY’s List President Stephanie Schriock and two things become clear: She delivers results and isn’t afraid to knock heads in the process. In the three years since she took the helm of the group that works to elect Democratic women, Schriock has grown its membership five-fold while…
Read MoreHillary Clinton Taps Speechmaking Gold Mine
By AMY CHOZICK, New York Times – Just a few months after leaving the State Department, Hillary Rodham Clinton has plunged into the lucrative world of paid speechmaking, joining a branch of the family business that has brought the Clintons more than $100 million since her husband left the White House in 2001. For about $200,000,…
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