rssOpening Day
Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 4:29 pm
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With Jackie Speier’s election to the House — filling the seat left vacant by the death of Tom Lantos — the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers has just updated their charts about women in elective office.
They’ve got lots of data, but most interesting is this chart on the percentage of women in office from 1979 to today. The growth is most remarkable in state legislatures, where the percentage of women has gone from 10 percent in 1979 to 23.7 percent in 2008.
Unfortunately, Speier’s first day on the new job didn’t go too well.
As the San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday,
Newly elected Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier of Hillsborough was sworn into Congress this morning and delivered a fiery speech criticizing President Bush’s Iraq policy that led some Republicans to boo and walk out of the House chamber.
Welcome to Washington.
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Comment posted April 11, 2008 @ 9:02 am
It’s "misogyny" he’ll tell ya! Every last one of those congressional misogynists are freaking MISOGYNISTS! Why Sir Elton couldn’t be wrong. Nope, no way no how. Why else would the rightwing side of congressional insanity boo Ms. Speier? It’s MISOGYNY! Plain and brutally simple. Besides, maybe Sir ‘E’ was having himself an off day and didn’t get his estrogen. BITCH!
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