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Article | Dems Pick Experienced Campaigner for Choice! - 0 views

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shared by Suzie Soapbox on 22 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Amy Dacey, a Washington veteran who helped run John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, will replace the acting Democratic national committee executive director, Laura Santucci, as the party attempts to capitalise on Republican weakness in the polls ahead of next year's midterm elections.
  • Previously, Dacey was executive director of Emily's List, which encourages the election of female candidates, particularly on pro-choice issues.
  • Dacey joins a number of women at the top of the Democratic organisation – including DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and possible 2016 presidential candidate Hilary Clinton – at a time when the two parties are seeing increasingly divergent appeal to women voters.
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  • Though President Barack Obama's personal approval ratings slumped to a new low on Thursday, party officials are hoping to build on dissatisfaction with Republicans after this month's government shutdown and end the gridlock that has dogged the president's second term by winning control of the House in 2014.
  • A number of up-and-coming female Democrats, such as Texas state senator Wendy Davis, have leapt to national attention by challenging socially conservative Republicans; Senate women such as the Maine Republican Susan Collins were credited with helping end the government shutdown by bridging partisan divides.
  • Dacey has a pedigree that goes far beyond gender politics, however, with a long background in campaigns and labour unions, where she was government relations director for the growing service-sector union, SEIU. Dacey's first job was at the National Foundation of Women Legislators; she has also worked as a campaign manager for New York representatives Maurice Hinchey and Louise Slaughter.
  • Suzie Soapbox on 22 Nov 13
     
    Holy crap. They got the message. After the Virginia gubernatorial and the drastic difference women made there, the Dems have figured out that they need people in leadership who understand women's issues. Far too often, Dems have had the approach of looking at the woman voter and saying, "Well, what other choice do you have? It is not like you are going to vote Republican!" In those situations, women just stay home. I remember in the 2000 and 2004 elections, there was a surge of promoting anti-choice democrats, and conservative democrats as a way to get party leadership. In the end, all they got was nowhere on everything that the base cared about. This was a brilliant choice. Article Link: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/31/amy-dacey-democratic-national-committee-director
Suzie Soapbox

Should there be an International Men's Day? - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...nternational-mens-day-why-have

shared by Suzie Soapbox on 21 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • On the International Men's Day website, true believers from around the world look into the camera, normally with the surf breaking on a beach behind them (men like being outdoors), and tell us about men and boys, health and role models.
  • They don't come across as secret woman-oppressors or evil patriarchy peddlers.
  • The problem, though, is that a bunch of men gathered round the barbecue – one of the website's suggestions for guaranteed IMD fun – might have quite different ideas about gender equality to a bunch of women gathered around the sewing machine (is that what women like to do these days?)
  • Suzie Soapbox on 21 Nov 13
     
    Everyday is International men's day. Blech. Now we are canonizing it.
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