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Costa Rica Poised to Elect 1st Women President
Costa Ricans appear likely to elect their first woman president Sunday as Central America’s most politically and economically stable country chooses between a career politician from the ruling party and an anti-taxation Libertarian.
Pre-election polls gave a nearly 20-point lead to Laura Chinchilla, who served as vice president under current President Oscar Arias, a Nobel Peace [...]
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Breaking More Barriers, Woman Takes P.B.A. Title
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Nude Model Defeats Martha Coakley
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Ellen Malcolm to Step Down as President of Emily’s List
After 25 years at the helm, Emily’s List Founder and President, Ellen Malcolm is stepping down from the day-to-day operations ...
A LOOK BACK: 2009’s Top Women in Politics Stories
by Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine While 2008 brought disappointment for women hoping the glass ceiling would be shattered at the ...
What will it Take for a Woman to be Elected President?
How to shatter the 'highest, hardest' glass ceiling By Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's approval ratings ...
RUNNING START – Giving High School Girls Access to a Political Future
Application process begins January 1 Running Start is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization dedicated to inspiring young women and girls to ...
Emerge Kentucky Accepting Applications for 2010 Candidate Training Program
Organization to Recruit and Train Women for Elected Office Emerge Kentucky, a non-profit organization established in 2009 to recruit and ...
Illinois Women Running for Office: HARD TO FIND
BY CAROL MARIN Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Where the heck are the women? Just look at the current list of candidates running ...
News
Kentucky House Passes Ban on Texting While Driving Despite the political controversy, this week the Kentucky House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban text messaging by drivers of all ages and cell phone use by drivers under age 18 passed by an 80-16 vote. Nineteen states now ban messaging while driving.
Violators of House Bill 43 would face a fine between $20 [...]
Candidates
2010 CAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT: Navy Officer Heather Beaven to Run for Florida’s Congress District 7 by Kathy Groob, ElectWomen Magazine
Florida’s Congressional District 7 has long been held by Republican John Mica who was elected in 1992. That has not deterred a young, ambitious Democratic woman, Heather Beaven to step up to challenge the incumbent. A resident of Palm Coast, Beaven has built her path to a political life through hard [...]
Campaign Tips
7 Deadly Sins of Tweeting Politicians by Jordan Raynor
I have gone on a politician purge, unfollowing the vast majority of elected officials and candidates that I previously followed on Twitter. Why? No single group of people is more boring on Twitter. Don’t take my word for it, a recent study by the University of Maryland agrees.
So to keep your elected official [...]
Winning and Losing
Mary Norwood Concedes in Atlanta Mayor’s Special Election by SHAILA DEWAN, New York Times
ATLANTA — Kasim Reed, a former state legislator with a narrow lead in Atlanta’s mayoral race, began announcing plans for his administration on Wednesday, even as his opponent in the race, City Councilwoman Mary Norwood, called for a recount of the runoff election.
With all precincts reporting after the runoff on [...]
Fundraising
On Money and Politics by Governor Ed Rendell
From Campaigns & Elections Magazine
Since I left office as mayor of Philadelphia, I have taught a course at my alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. The course is “Political Science – the Science of Getting Elected.”
A staple for my course material has always been case studies from issues of Campaigns & Elections—that’s [...]
Women's Issues and News
Being a Woman Veteran by: Kayla Williams
(From the diaries – promoted by Brandon Friedman)
On Wednesday, I was honored and proud to be invited to the SHOUT! Art by Women Veterans show put on in San Francisco by Swords to Plowshares, a great organization. It was amazing for me to be around so many other women veterans at one time. [...]
Organization News
Annual Ohio Democratic Women’s Caucus Gathering Draws Large Crowd by Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine
The Ohio Democratic Women’s Caucus(ODWC) packed a banquet hall in Columbus on Saturday for their annual women’s luncheon. This year’s topic was centered on health care, specifically issues facing women and children. About 400 women came together from all across Ohio to hear about the Democratic Party’s plan for 2010 [...]
Retro
A True Kentucky Pioneer: The Story of Kentucky’s First Female and African-American Senator By Brandy Bailey, ElectWomen Magazine Contributor
At the time, Georgia Davis Powers had no idea she had made history in 1968 by becaming the first woman AND the first African-American elected to Kentucky’s State Senate. All she knew was that she wanted to make a difference in her community.
It was never her intention to become a [...]
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