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Record number of female veterans running for office this year
Fox 13 News, SALT LAKE CITY – A candidate for Utah’s First Congressional District was featured on Fox News Network Saturday morning. Donna McAleer is running as a Democrat against Congressman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) in the general election. She is a West Point graduate and an Army veteran. She says her experience in the military…
Read MoreSandra Fluke Hits Campaign Trail with President Obama
POLITICO- The Georgetown law student famously insulted by Rush Limbaugh for backing insurance coverage of birth control will introduce President Obama at an event in Denver on Wednesday, a campaign official confirms to POLITICO. Sandra Fluke, whom Limbaugh called a “slut,” will introduce Obama at a campaign rally at Auraria Campus. The event is one of several…
Read MoreWhy are Women Struggling to Get and Stay Elected?
Interviewed by POLITICO’s Andrea Drusch – Andrea Mitchell,Host, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports There are a lot of challenges for women. It was really brought home recently by the online controversy over the new CEO at Yahoo. People were so surprised that, my god, she’s pregnant. In 2012, we are finding people worried about whether a…
Read MoreWomen Candidates For State Legislature Fight To Increase Representation
By Amanda Terkel for Huffington Post – WASHINGTON — While women are on track to increase their representation in Congress, their prospects are less certain in state legislatures. A record 1,078 women have won their primaries for state legislative seats in the 2012 cycle so far, according to a new analysis by the 2012 Project,…
Read MoreCarol Chumney Tries to Unseat Appointed DA
A former Tennessee state legislator who was also a former Memphis city councilwoman will try to unseat a governor appointed district attorney (DA) in Shelby County Tennessee in a general election contest to be held this Thursday, August 2nd. Chumney is the Democratic nominee for district attorney facing Republican Amy Weirich. Carol Chumney vows to…
Read MoreFlorida Women’s Convention Starts This Week
ElectWomen founder and Pink Politics author Kathy Groob will be a featured speaker this week at the Florida Democratic Women’s Club annual convention in Tallahassee. Several elected officials will be on the speaking agenda as well. Three days packed full of workshops, meetings and speakers will ignite Florida’s Democratic women as they prepare for the…
Read MoreMeet Newsroom’s Emily Mortimer
Emily Mortimer stars as the fictional executive producer in HBO’s newest hit – Newsroom. Written and created by Aaron Sorkin, Newsroom is a summer sleeper that is catching on like wildfire for political and newsroom junkies. Emily Mortimer plays MacKenzie McHale, the smart and sassy executive producer brought in to give the nightly cable news…
Read MoreMon Dieu. Female French Minister Gets Heckled by Colleagues in Parliament for Wearing a Floral Dress
It’s just another Tuesday at the French Parliament. A minister of the newly appointed socialist government stands to speak. She’s a woman. She’s wearing a dress. A floral dress. The hem hits below the knee and the neckline shows little cleavage but the right-wing lawmakers in the room can hardly contain themselves. They start hooting and oohing as…
Read MoreNew York Senate Candidate’s Hot Pink Website
Evidently, Mindy Meyer’s hot pink website for her state senate campaign is a little too hot. Political news sites and bloggers have been writing about it and maybe that’s just what Mindy wanted for her campaign–everybody’s talking about her. Don’t get me wrong, I love pink! My book for women is titled Pink Politics. But…
Read MoreTexas Candidate Ann Johnson Leads Opponent in Fundraising
(Houston, TX) – Democrat Ann Johnson, candidate for the Texas House of Representatives for District 134 in Houston, announced today that her campaign raised $161,389.66 in the first reporting period from more than 450 donors. That’s more than twice the funds and twice as many donors as her opponent. Johnson also reported $138,837.46 in cash…
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