Category — Old Boys' Club

Check out this video of the GOP silencing the women Representatives during Saturday’s Stupak floor debate.

Proud Coakley supporter Rep. Niki Tsongas is around the one minute mark:

This post originally appeared on the blog of the Women’s Campaign Forum, which has endorsed Coakley.  Cross-posted with permission.  The author is WCF Fellow Trish.

Detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, 19 year-old Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. Not only was Ms. Jones deterred from seeking medical treatment under the threat of being fired, she was prevented from justice and due process by a binding contract. That’s right: her employment contract stipulated that sexual assault allegations could only be heard by “private arbitration,” and not in a U.S. court of law. [Read more →]

Politico posted a great article about how women senators, despite being only 17% of votes, are beginning to wield real power due to seniority and committee chairmanships. Lisa Lerer quotes Barbara Mikulski as saying:

Women senators are not a caucus; we’re a force.

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If you’ve heard about John Derbyshire’s appearance on Alan Colmes’ radio show (I’d give a link, but the site seems to have crashed,) how did you react?  Here’s my reaction:

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During our interview yesterday, Coakley pointed to Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s rejoinder to Sen Jon Kyl this week (see video) as an example of the value that women’s perspective can bring to the Senate.   She said [Read more →]

At the conclusion of her women’s endorsement press conference today, Coakley answered a question about sexism in the campaign by acknowledging that

… we still work with unconscious — totally unconscious — bias in the way people think and the way they speak about this race.  [Read more →]

I have a legacy. I may not be from a prominent political family and I do not have a public platform to stand upon, but my legacy is important.  It is the legacy of the women who helped build our nation. [Read more →]

Things are happening almost too fast to keep up with today, but don’t miss this story on KennedySeat.com about Pagliuca and his non-existent voting record.

Will Stephen Pagliuca’s resignation from the Burger King board of directors separate him from unhealthy food and sexist commercials in voters’ eyes, despite his still owning stock? I am no expert in deciphering SEC forms. But as a layman it looks to me like Paliuca’s Sept. 23 SEC filing shows him to own 17 thousand shares of BK stock (now selling for about $17 each). That ~$300,000 may not be whopper sized for Pagliuca’s palate, but to most voters, it’s a lot. [Read more →]