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Emerge America Hosts Summer Soiree Fundraiser
Emerge America is hosting a summer soiree with Emerge leaders to celebrate and support the success of the Emerge women’s candidate training program, now operating in 13 states. The event will be held at the home of former Emerge America president and founder, Andrea Dew Steele in San Francisco on Saturday, July 27, 2013 at…
Read MoreAlison Lundergan Grimes Launches Website and Social Media Pages
Announcing earlier this week that she will challenge Mitch McConnell for the Kentucky U.S. Senate seat, Alison Lundergan Grimes announced today the address of her new website and two social media pages. Website: http://www.alisonforky.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Alison.L.Grimes Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlisonForKY
Read MoreLundergan Grimes focuses on generation divide, gender in Senate race
By Alexandra Jaffe – The Hill – Democrats believe their path to victory over Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) runs through the generational divide between him and Senate hopeful Alison Lundergan Grimes, a candidate half the Kentucky senator’s age whose campaign is already targeting younger, female voters. Kentucky political activists say the Democratic contender must…
Read MoreAshley Judd backs Grimes in Ky. Senate race
By CAITLIN MCDEVITT, POLITICO – Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes has landed a celebrity endorsement from actress Ashley Judd. The star, who flirted with the idea of challenging Mitch McConnell herself, tweeted her support for Grimes’s Senate run on Tuesday: via Judd backs Grimes in Ky. Senate race – POLITICO.com.
Read MoreAustralian Leader Announces Cabinet With Record Number of Women
By MATT SIEGEL, New York Times – SYDNEY, Australia — Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who supplanted Australia’s first female prime minister last week in a party coup, announced a new cabinet on Monday that includes more women than any other in the country’s history. Lawmakers of the governing Labor Party put Mr. Rudd back in power…
Read MoreOne-Third of Women Assaulted by a Partner, Global Report Says
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS – New York Times – In the first major global review of violence against women, a report released Thursday found that 30 percent of women reported having been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner. The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, called it “a global…
Read MoreWendy Davis Chides Perry, Says She’ll ‘Fight With Every Fiber’ to Stop Abortion Bill
By Jeff Zeleny, Arlette Saenz for ABC News – FORT WORTH, Texas — The Democratic state senator who is leading the fight against significant new restrictions on abortions in Texas said Gov. Rick Perry and other Republicans were hypocritical, claiming to support smaller government but actually trying to increase state intrusion in people’s lives. Wendy Davis, the…
Read MoreWendy Davis: The Lone Star of Texas
Huffington Post – The Texas anti-abortion bill, which threatened to close nearly all of the abortion clinics in the state and prompted an 11-hour filibuster by state Sen. Wendy Davis (D), is dead, The Austin American-Statesman reported. Lawmakers had to vote on Senate Bill 5 before the special session’s end at 12 a.m. local time.…
Read More5 Old White Men Who Are Champions For Women’s Rights
By Darcey Bullock – Op-ed columnist Frank Bruni wrote recently in the New York Times about the puzzling stamina of sexism. Many hoped that after the feminist struggles during the 1970s, we would be further along than we are now; that a panel of witnesses on sexual assault in the military might contain more than…
Read MoreKomen Chooses New Leader
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS; New York Times – The breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced Monday that a physician with a long career in health policy and research, Judith A. Salerno, would become its new president and chief executive. She succeeds Nancy Brinker, Komen’s founder, who said last summer she would…
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