Posts by Kathy Groob
Women Leaders Launch National Campaign To Double Number of Women in Politics
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine – Political Parity, a nonpartisan initiative of 51 women leaders, held a briefing and roundtable announcing a new national campaign to double the number of women in the U.S. House and Senate and among Governors. Leading the initiative are former US Ambassador to Austria Swanee Hunt and former Lt.…
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 MoreAmerican Politics: Where are all the Women?
By Rebecca Thomas – Politics, in every country, has historically been a man’s game. Although the representation of women in political office has increased worldwide since World War II, it is still far from the 50-50 representation that perhaps we might expect to see in an egalitarian society. Women are, of course, under-represented in all…
Read MoreSILENCED AGAIN: Missouri Women Not Allowed to Speak During Birth Control Debate
MO Representatives speak up after being ignored in the House. Edited from the article from JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMOX) – Seven female representatives voiced outrage at being ignored for over 2 hours by Republican House leadership during a House floor discussion on a resolution to President Barack Obama’s contraception mandate. The House debated a resolution (HCR41) Wednesday that…
Read MoreGeorgia Democratic Female Representative Proposes Vasectomy Bill
CNN – As members of Georgia’s House of Representatives debate whether to prohibit abortions for women more than 20 weeks pregnant, House Democrats introduced their own reproductive rights plan: No more vasectomies that leave “thousands of children … deprived of birth.” Rep. Yasmin Neal, a Democrat from the Atlanta suburb of Jonesboro, planned on Wednesday…
Read MoreFirst Responder Wanda Hammons Enters Race for Kentucky State Representative
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine – With politics in her blood, Grant County native Wanda Crupper Hammons has filed to run for an open seat in the Kentucky State House of Representatives. For the past 20 years, the 61st House seat was held by Wanda’s friend, Royce Adams and prior to that, the seat…
Read MoreElizabeth Warren’s Race for Senate Tightens Up
Democrat Elizabeth Warren is neck and neck with Republican Sen. Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race, according to a new poll released Tuesday. The poll, conducted by Massachusetts think tank MassINC for the Boston NPR station WBUR, finds that 46 percent of likely voters in the state said they would vote for Warren, while…
Read MoreCarolyn Maloney, Eleanor Holmes Norton walk out of contraception hearing
POLITICO – Two female Democratic lawmakers walked out of a House hearing on the Obama administration’s contraception compromise Thursday morning to protest the fact that only male witnesses were testifying. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) left the hearing when House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) refused to…
Read More8 Most Memorable Vote Promoters Who Weren’t Even Registered
Courtesy of Online Certificate Programs – Celebrities and other high-profile figures use their name to promote political campaigns and encourage people to get out and vote. But even with all the advertisements and endorsements, many of these vote promoters don’t make it to the polls, or get registered for that matter. Check out these eight…
Read More2013 Campaign Preview: New York City Speaker Christine Quinn Offers Agenda for City
The New York Times – Christine C. Quinn, simultaneously offering an agenda for the City Council and a preview of her mayoral campaign, proposed on Thursday to crack down on landlords whose buildings are deteriorating, to make kindergarten mandatory and to provide more job training for unemployed New Yorkers. Ms. Quinn, the Council speaker, touched in her annual State…
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