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Meet Swati Dandekar. Iowa’s First Female Member of Congress?
Swati Dandekar is running for Congress in Iowa’s first Congressional District. Learn more at www.swatidandekarforcongress.com. Swati Dandekar of Marion, Iowa was first elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 2002. She served the Marion, Iowa area in that capacity until she was elected to represent them in the Iowa Senate in 2009. She was the chair…
Read MoreFormer Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Alex Sink to run for U.S. Congress
Miami Herald @adamsmithtimes – Alex Sink is running for Congress. Florida’s former chief financial officer and Democratic gubernatorial nominee on Tuesday confirmed exclusively to the Tampa Bay Times that she is jumping into the race to succeed late Republican U.S. Rep. C.W. Bill Young in a district covering much of Pinellas County. Sink, 65, has begun looking for a…
Read MoreFocused Effort to Narrow the Gender Gap on Corporate Boards – NYTimes.com
Focused Effort to Narrow the Gender Gap on Corporate Boards BY ELIZABETH OLSON, photo by Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York Times Linda Rabbitt, the founder of the Rand Construction Corporation, at a board meeting of the Greater Washington Board of Trade. The dearth of women on corporate boards has been a persistent issue for decades. Yet…
Read MoreEMILY’s List to back Mary Burke for Governor in Wisconsin
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS, POLITICO – EMILY’s List, the group that recruits and supports Democratic female candidates, will announce Thursday that it is endorsing former Trek Bicycle executive Mary Burke in her longshot campaign to unseat Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker in 2014. “Mary Burke is an insightful problem-solver who has worked in the private, government, and…
Read MoreInternational Women in Politics News: Muslim Woman in Mayoral Race Threatens to Shake Up Tradition Where Jesus Grew Up
Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times, By ISABEL KERSHNER NAZARETH, Israel — Ramiz Jaraisi has been the mayor of this bustling Arab city in northern Israel for nearly 20 years. For 20 years before that, he served as deputy mayor. The local party slate he heads, the Nazareth Democratic Front, a coalition of the Communist…
Read MoreBest-selling author Marianne Williamson running for US House seat in California as an Independent
Best-selling author Marianne Williamson is running for the US House of Representatives in California’s 33rd District. (Image: http://marianneforcongress.com) Marianne Williamson, the best-selling author whose “A Return to Love” spent 39 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in 1992, announced Sunday that she is running as an independent for the US House of Representatives…
Read MoreHillary Clinton returns to campaign trail, stumping for someone else — for now
NBC/MSNBC – FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Officially, the concert hall billed it as a Terry McAuliffe campaign event. But the northern Virginia crowd came to see Hillary Clinton, potential 2016 presidential candidate, and they greeted her like the headliner. “The leader who has joined us here today–” was as far as McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate…
Read MoreCandidate for Cincinnati School Board Ericka Copeland Dansby Receives Newspaper Endorsement
Ericka Copeland-Dansby is a candidate for Cincinnati School Board and received the endorsement of the city’s largest newspaper, The Enquirer. Enquirer Endorsement: She works for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati as director of resource development, handling fundraising, marketing and promoting its youth programs. Her 25-year career in the not-for-profit sector working with…
Read MoreElect Her–Campus Women Win Will Reach 50 Schools in 2014
Program Seeks to Increase the Number of Women in Elected Office WASHINGTON – Elect Her–Campus Women Win, a program designed to expand the pipeline of women running for elected office in college and beyond, heads to 50 colleges and universities in 27 states, the District of Columbia, and Jamaica next year. The program’s 2014 expansion…
Read MoreCarlsbad, NM, Democrat Roxanne Lara enters race for Congress
SANTA FE – Democrat Roxanne “Rocky” Lara of Carlsbad is running for Congress in the southern New Mexico district. Lara, 38, has been considering a run for Congress since late April. She began focusing on the race after Sam Bregman defeated her for the chairmanship of New Mexico’s Democratic Party. “New Mexicans deserve someone in…
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