Posts by Kathy Groob
Tammy Baldwin Announces Bid for U.S. Senate
Wisconsin U.S. Representative (D-Madison) Tammy Baldwin has announced today that she will run for the U.S. Senate in the 2012 elections. Baldwin made her announcement through a video on her campaign website www.tammybaldwin.com. “We all know these are tough times for the middle class,” said Baldwin. “I’m used to facing challenges head on and my…
Read MorePolitical Donors’ Gender Disparity
By Michael Beckel, Open Secrets Blog – As politicians issue proclamations to celebrate Women’s Equality Day today, data from the Center for Responsive Politics show that women have a long way to go before they see equality as political donors. At the federal level, men consistently give more than two-thirds of all donations reported in…
Read MoreSoutheastern Institute for Women in Politics Launches Mission 2012 on Wednesday
This week, the Southeastern Institute for Women in Politics will launch Mission 2012, an aggressive campaign to elect more women than ever in South Carolina and we would like you to be part of that effort. The 2012 election cycle demands that women step up and lead. We now make up more than HALF the workforce in…
Read MoreHappy Labor Day!
TLC – For a lot of people, Labor Day means two things: a day off and the end of summer. But why is it called Labor Day? Labor Day is a day set aside to pay tribute to working men and women. It has been celebrated as a national holiday in the United States and Canada since 1894. Labor unions themselves celebrated…
Read MoreYounger Women Desert Female Candidates
By Paul Bedard for U.S. News & World Report – The political sisterhood, led by activists from Gloria Steinem to Hillary Clinton, is dead. New polling finds that younger women (aged 18 to 34) are cool with the status of women in politics and don’t see any need to help their gender at the ballot…
Read MoreCondoleezza Rice: Cheney attacked ‘my integrity’
POLITICO- Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is firing back at Dick Cheney for what she called an “attack on my integrity” in the former vice president’s memoir. Rice spoke to Reuters on Wednesday, pushing back for the first time on claims Cheney levels against her in his recently released book “In My Time.” Like her predecessor…
Read MoreWill New York Mayor Bloomberg Endorse Christine Quinn for His Successor?
New York Times – It is the worst-kept secret in City Hall. Michael R. Bloomberg has told almost everyone who asks — but only privately, so far — that he hopes the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, will succeed him as mayor in 2013. While Mr. Bloomberg brings unprecedented personal resources to his political agenda, few other New…
Read MoreForbes Magazine Announces 2011 World’s Most Powerful Women
Women in Politics Top the List The top two power women in the annual Forbes Magazine World’s Most Powerful Women list are #1 Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and #2 is the United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is head of the one real global economy in Europe and is the…
Read MoreCandidate Resources for Online Campaigns
OnlineCandidateResources.com announces the launch of its political campaign strategy and training website. The website serves as a training and support hub for political candidates to create an online political campaign and to use the web to build volunteer support, donations and votes. “OnlineCandidateResources.com is a natural extension of our current services,” says Shane Daley, developer and co-owner…
Read MoreAmerica’s Suffragettes, your light still shines
By Kathy Groob, Publisher Suffrage: The right to vote. Born in 1911, my Grandmother Blanche Liston did not have the right to vote. As a little girl, she did not see her mother vote and as she grew into adulthood, did not ever exercise her right to vote because she feared being called for jury…
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