Tag Archives: Election

EMILY’s List Celebrates 2012 Milestones

TweetI was honored to attend the EMILY’s List 2nd Inaugural Brunch over the weekend to not only celebrate the re-election of President Obama, but also the historic victories for women this election cycle.  Thanks to EMILY’s list, during the 2011- 2012 election cycle, we “elect[ed] a historic number of candidates – the only pro-choice Democratic [...]
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What we missed: favorite post-election images edition

TweetIt’s been a big day. Frankly, we’re all experiencing a bit of election fatigue and are somewhat tired of reading election-related news and analysis (although there is plenty of great stuff out there). Instead, here are some of our favorite images from the post-election news cycle! The Obamas take a victory lap on election night [...]
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‘It’s not a traditional America anymore.’

TweetSome of us might have well considered the first term of the first African American President was a dream. A sweet dream that would come to end as we were all loss in the deluge of insider baseball talk between pundits, strategists, and pollsters. Watching last nights acceptance speech, I’d wondered in the back of Obama’s [...]
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Quick hit: By conflating sex work with trafficking, CA’s newly passed Prop 35 does more harm than good

Tweet“Under Prop 35, anyone involved in the sex trade could potentially be viewed as being involved in trafficking, and could face all of the criminal penalties associated with this redefinition of who is involved in “trafficking,” which include fines of between $500,000 and $1 million and prison sentences ranging from five years to life. This [...]
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Yay! Obama won big last night. So, how’d all those GOP rape apologist candidates do?

TweetWe know Obama won big last night, and that the election just may have come down to female voters (who somehow seem to have a way of shutting that whole thing down). So how did all those GOP rape apologist candidates do? A summary below. Todd “the female body has ways to shut that whole [...]
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