The future is female! According to the Chicago Tribune only 17 of the 100 members of the Virginia House of Delegates were women before Tuesday. The number almost doubled to thirty and the expectation is that those figures will only grow with subsequent elections. Women are running for office in record numbers since the presidential election of 2016. A projected 40 women are running for governor around the country in 2018 and numerous others for congressional seats.
Danica Roehm has been elected as the first openly transgender member of the House of Delegates. She ran against an incumbent conservative who openly opposed same sex marriage and refused to acknowledge Roehm's gender identity. Jennifer Carrol Foy felt such, "fear and anger and frustration" with the anti-women agenda of the Trump administration that she decided to run for office. Two weeks after she announced her candidacy she also discovered she was pregnant with twins. During the primaries in Sept she was put on bed rest and her husband stood in campaigning at the polls in her stead. When the twins were born too early at 1.5 pounds each, she and her husband still campaigned and canvassed and then went to the NICU at night to be with their boys. And she won! This id democracy and bravery at work.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-election-women-democrats-20171108-story.html
Danica Roehm has been elected as the first openly transgender member of the House of Delegates. She ran against an incumbent conservative who openly opposed same sex marriage and refused to acknowledge Roehm's gender identity. Jennifer Carrol Foy felt such, "fear and anger and frustration" with the anti-women agenda of the Trump administration that she decided to run for office. Two weeks after she announced her candidacy she also discovered she was pregnant with twins. During the primaries in Sept she was put on bed rest and her husband stood in campaigning at the polls in her stead. When the twins were born too early at 1.5 pounds each, she and her husband still campaigned and canvassed and then went to the NICU at night to be with their boys. And she won! This id democracy and bravery at work.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-election-women-democrats-20171108-story.html
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