Tag: Women in politics

It Only Took One Question to Make Me Go Sit Down

Posted on June 3, 2019 by

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“Who would vote for you?” I’d scheduled a lunch meeting with my longtime mentor, a former priest who was an administrator at the local anti-poverty agency where I was working, to tell him I was thinking of running for Alderman. And that was the… Continue Reading “It Only Took One Question to Make Me Go Sit Down”

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Where the Girls Are

Posted on March 25, 2017 by

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What I loved about yesterday’s stunning Republican debacle was seeing men who think they know it all get told to go sit down. For weeks I’ve been watching House Speaker Paul Ryan’s smug ‘trust me’ videos on Facebook and Twitter. Then it was news… Continue Reading “Where the Girls Are”

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