We need more progressive women to seek office.

[Union Yes]

If we look back through American history. Our history is rife with injustice. Slavery, racial injustice, social injustice, economic injustice, gender inequality, GLBT rights injustices to name a few.

Those injustices remained the norm, generation after generation. There's a reason those injustices remained the norm. Half the population wasn't allowed to vote.

Then suddenly, a landmark event occurred.

Amendment XIX(Women's Right to Vote,1920)
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.


Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.





It didn't take long thereafter to see that progressive policies were put front and center in Washington.

WOMEN BROUGHT CHANGE.

FDR was elected.

FDR is and should be revered by progressives to this day. IMO all Americans owe a debt of gratitude to FDR. But it was his wife and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt who fought tirelessly for civil rights, waged war on poverty, fought for gender equality. She fought for and helped craft many of the provisions in the New Deal.

I dread to think of how life would be like in America if we never knew Eleanor or FDR.

Back to modern times..

1. Progressives need an answer to Michele Bachman.

Bachman makes Sarah Palin look like a f'n genius. Sad.

2. We fill Washington with wealthy, old, crusty, white males and wonder why we are $13 TRILLION in debt, a nation at war with no end in sight, growing poverty, anti union policy, broken healthcare ect ect.

3. Women's rights have literally been under siege in Washington in recent years. Choice, Roe vs Wade, Lilly Ledbetter Act. If conservatives had their way, birth control would be illegal.

Clearly coincides with the lack of representation by women in Washington. How obvious does it have to get?

4. Progressive issues in general, have been stomped into the ground in Washington for too long.

Elected progressive women would have something to say about this sad fact.

5. The Democratic Party should be ashamed of itself. Where is the support for progressive women candidates? Why don't the Dems reach out to women candidates in general? The Dems are mostly male yet women make up slightly more than half the population.

Women are horribly under represented in Washington.


An example of a progressive women I'd love to see run for office...

Rachel Maddow.


Anyone else miss Pat Schroeder?

Progressive women candidates will get this gay white males support, vote, and money!

Peace

[Skittles]

1. things have not changed much

while Obama's election was indeed historic, it was overlooked that a woman has never been president and we are OVER HALF THE POPULATION - our status is simply taken for granted

[MADem]

2. I met Pat Schroeder while she was doing a CODEL of overseas military

facilities years ago. A very delightful woman.

[murielm99]

3. You are correct.

Look into Emily's List if you are not familiar with it. They help elect Democratic pro-choice women. They found that these women could get nominated and win primaries, but they were not making the it over finish line. Emily's List helps.

I have found, as a county chairman, that women in leadership positions have extra challenges. We cannot act like "one of the boys." We have to develop our own social networks within politics.

Where I live, organizations like Illinois Democratic Women are very helpful. Loretta Durbin, wife of Dick Durbin, runs a leadership institute for young Democratic women seeking to run for office.

Some of the worst roadblocks are not set up by the men in our party. I have found that other women can be much more mean-spirited and sexist. Oh, I could tell you stories.

[glowing]

4. I'd love to.. just takes a lot of money or lots of time.. two things normal

progressive types don't have a lot of.

[Sherman A1]

5. I know of one that is running

in a Northern Suburb of St. Louis, Mo. A place called Florissant where I live, we have a superb candidate running for city council, named Nancy Lubiewski in Ward 9.

Change comes from the ground up ( I think I heard a phrase "one neighborhood at a time" not too long ago) and with her election, hopefully change will become more of a reality.

For anyone interested here is a link to her website....

http://nancylubiewski.com/index.htm

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