About me: As a friend of The White House Project, you are, I’m guessing, as thrilled today as I am.
While so many women ran and won in 1992 that it went down as the Year of the Woman, this year has proven to be just as instrumental for women’s success. This is the Year of the Woman Leader, and the beginning of the new women’s political movement.
This past election day, women took command in the midterm elections filling the political pipeline from the school board to the US Senate. Women finished strong and scored important firsts:
Rep. Nancy Pelosi will become the first ever female Speaker of the House—the closest a woman has ever come to the Oval Office, as she’ll be second in the line of succession to the presidency.
The number of female Senators is now at an all-time high of 16.
Minnesota elected its first woman senator in Amy Klobuchar, its first Latina State Senator, Patricia Torres Ray (a White House Project Trainee), and it's first female Attorney General, Lori Swanson.
Sarah Paulin of Alaska joined the ranks of women governors, pushing the number back up to its former high of 9.
This year, The White House Project continued to fill the pipeline at all levels, from City Council, to State Legislature and U.S. Representative. We trained over 450 women to run for office within the next 5 years, 50 of whom decided to jump right in and run this year. Trained and ready, they broke the barrier of “viability” by appealing to a cross section of voters, running strong field campaigns, and conveying authenticity. Nearly half of them won!
In these wins, we're noticing a greater acceptance of women as leaders in politics than ever before, and we think that this could be a predictor of gains to come for women on the road to the White House.
The White House Project, a national, nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization, aims to advance women’s leadership in all communities and sectors, up to the U.S. presidency. By filling the leadership pipeline with a richly diverse, critical mass of women, we make American institutions, businesses and government truly representative. Through multi-platform programs, The White House Project creates a culture where America’s most valuable untapped resource—women—can succeed in all realms.
To advance this mission, The White House Project strives to support women and the issues that allow women to lead in their own lives and in the world. When women leaders bring their voices, vision and leadership to the table alongside men, the debate is more robust and the policy is more inclusive and sustainable. By supporting women and the values that allow women to succeed—the full range of health options, security platforms that utilize all our resources, economic stability for all—we work to create an equitable culture.
Please send this letter or a letter of your own to your senator, demanding them to write a letter to the State Department, them in turn demanding the State Department to obey the rules pertaining to the treatment of prisoners of the American Human Rights Convention and Article 10 of the Convention on the rights of the child in the case of the five and grant visas to Adriana, Olga and Ivette.
To find your Senators email address go to: www.surrogacy.com/legals/senators.html or http://www.house.gov/Welcome.shtml
Copy and paste this letter to save time:
Dear Senator (Name of your Senator)
It has come to my attention that people at the Cuban desk in the State Department are violating the rules pertaining to the treatment of prisoners of the American Human Rights Convention and Article 10 of the Convention on the rights of the child in the case of the Cuban five. I, (Your name) demand that you immediately write a letter to the State Department and demand that Adriana, Olga and Ivette be granted visas with no further delay.
