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homegirl

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3. what women are up against when they run for office!

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 05:27 PM

Jan 2014

“They’re gonna dig dirt up about you,” Blair says. “And with women, if you’ve done anything wrong ever, it’s gonna come out. Whereas men could do that in college and it’d be fine, with women that shit would come up and they’d be put through the ringer.”

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Opposition research on Wendy Davis is being released [View all] Gothmog Jan 2014 OP

what the public is not going to like are the details of Abbott's personal injury settlement stg81 Jan 2014 #1

Yep. PDittie Jan 2014 #4

Are you coming to the Fort Bend event on Friday? Gothmog Jan 2014 #6

Efforting to do so. PDittie Jan 2014 #8

Here is a statement from Annie's list on this attack on Wendy Gothmog Jan 2014 #7

Nit-picky crap. Abbott must be running scared. nt SunSeeker Jan 2014 #2

what women are up against when they run for office! homegirl Jan 2014 #3

Wendy is releasing a revised bio that clarifies these claims Gothmog Jan 2014 #5