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2009 Hottest Races UPDATED
By Kathy Groob, Publisher, ElectWomen Magazine 2009 is an off year for elections in most states, but there are important statewide and municipal elections in several states. Women are running for state legislative seats in Virginia and New Jersey and for the top executive post in a few of the nation’s largest cities. Judy Chu…
Read MoreThe Place of Women on the Court
By EMILY BAZELON, The New York Times In late February, three weeks after she had an operation for a recurrence of cancer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to Barack Obama’s first address to Congress. Given the circumstances, it wasn’t an event anyone expected her to attend. She went, she said, because she wanted the country to see that…
Read MoreWhere Have All the Governors Gone?
Will 2009 Go Down as the Year of the Disappearing Women Governors? By Kathy Groob, Publisher, ElectWomen Magazine With Sarah Palin’s recent announcement that she is resigning her post as Governor of Alaska, there will soon be just six states with women governors– Hawaii, North Carolina, Michigan, Washington, Arizona and Connecticut. 37 states will hold…
Read MoreJenny Sanford for South Carolina Governor–Women Pols Have Fewer Sex Scandals
If you want leaders for whom the people not power comes first, women are the best bet By Christine Jahnke, ElectWomen Contributor, Courtsey of U.S. News & World Report Want fewer embarrassing, distracting sex scandals? Elect more women. Ann Richards said it best when she admonished the leadership of the Democratic Party with her line,…
Read MoreState Representative Ellen Cohen a Fighter for Texans and for Cancer Research
Texas State Representative Ellen Cohen didn’t waste any time after her election in 2006 to take on cancer. With Rice University and Texas Medical Center in her district, an affluent area of Houston, pushed for legislation and funding for cancer research and to develop a statewide blueprint for cancer prevention and control. A breast cancer…
Read MoreORGANIZATION PROFILE: Women’s Policy Inc., Important Women’s Issue Watchdog Group
The Women’s Policy Inc. (WPI) is a D.C. based women’s organization that operates as a nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to insuring that women’s issues are first and foremost. The organization produces The Source, an e-mail newsletter provides updates on legislation in Congress concerning women’s issues. An e-mail subscription is free to the public. The organization’s…
Read MoreA Woman is Poised to Make History in Alabama Politics
Shelia Smoot Launches Bid for U.S. Congress By Brandy Bailey, Contributor ElectWomen Magazine Shelia Smoot is a woman of many talents. She is the Jefferson County Commissioner in Birmingham Alabama, a consumer advocate, radio talkshow host, businesswoman, and mother. Now she is hoping to add to that impressive list of accomplishments as U.S. Congresswoman for…
Read MoreWhy so few women in infidelity club?
By: Melanie Mason for POLITICO When South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted to an extramarital affair on Wednesday, he presented an all-too-familiar tableau: the pained expressions, contrite words and teary gaze of a male politician confessing sexual indiscretion. Coming close on the heels of a similar admission from Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), it is clear…
Read MoreBreaking Up the Boys Club – Ohio Democrat Jennifer Brunner Seeks U.S. Senate Seat
When U.S. Senator George Voinovich announced he was not going to seek re-election in 2010, the Democratic powers at be in Ohio lined up one of their own to seek the party’s nomination. Governor Ted Strickland endorsed his Lt. Governor, Lee Fischer pronouncing him as “the most qualified” Democrat. But not so fast, Ohio Secretary…
Read MorePioneer for Women’s Campaign Strategy Paves the Way for Candidates
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine. One woman, and her band of supporters pioneered the way for women candidates to become viable and win elections. In 1984, “women had no way to be seen as credible candidates because they couldn’t raise money,” said EMILY’s List founder and President, Ellen Malcolm. “How could we get the political…
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