Sentences with phrase «backs women candidates»
Meanwhile, Stewart - Cousins attended and spoke at an event for WE PAC, a political action committee that backs women candidates who support abortion rights.
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Harwood: Democrats win back the House or the Senate or both this fall, is that going to be mostly victories by women candidates?
Fewer women sit at the C - suite and qualified candidates are held back and denied speaking opportunities simply by the title listed on their LinkedIn accounts.
They believed that they were going to call the best candidate, whether it was a man or a woman but, because of all their unconscious baggage, they went back to what was comfortable.
Mothers are back in the news again, thanks to Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen whose comment about stay - at - home - mom of five Ann Romney, wife of presidential candidate Mitt Romney, as a woman who «has actually never worked a day in her life» reignited the so - called Mommy Wars.
Recall that in the last election cycle, Cuomo created the Women's Equality Party — or WEP — a move widely seen in part as an effort to confuse voters — after all, E comes right before F in the alphabet — and get back at the WFP for daring to even consider backing a candidate other than Cuomo... more on this in a moment.
Some insiders had wondered if Gillibrand might back Nixon, given that the senator, through her Off the Sidelines political action committee, has raised $ 6.5 million to help women candidates across the country.
When Democratic Westchester County executive hopeful Noam Bramson announced his full - throated support for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's women's agenda, the campaign of Republican incumbent (and possible gubernatorial candidate next year) Rob Astorino hit back hard by wondering why their opponent supports Silver remaining in office.
The group, which supports female pro-abortion rights candidates, has considerable resources to help the women it backs win elections to public office.
The woman featured in the clip above moved to the back of the room, shouting and heckling the next questioner and the candidates.
She said candidates will be obligated to promise to back the Women's Equality Agenda to get the line, and that it could make up the margin of error in close races for the State Senate, where the Republicans cling to power by a single seat.
Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme, Shadow Health Secretary Ms Abbott said: «As for Angela Eagle, she is a perfectly nice woman but what she is is the Empire Strikes Back candidate.
Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme, the Shadow Health Secretary: «As for Angela Eagle, she is a perfectly nice woman but what she is is the Empire Strikes Back candidate.
GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, an insurgent conservative backed by Bannon in Alabama's special Senate race, has also faced allegations of sexual impropriety from numerous women, including accusations that he pursued sexual and romantic relations with teenage girls when he was in his 30s.
She warned: «She's a perfectly nice woman but what she is is the Empire Strikes back candidate.
He is backing a Dominican woman, Marisol Alcantara, in the Sept. 13 Democratic primary to choose a candidate to replace him in the State Senate — a contest that could be a measure of whether his earlier victory augurs an increase in the influence of Dominican voters in New York City and his own status as a potential kingmaker.
State Senate candidates Amber Small and Sara Niccoli on Thursday announced endorsements from EMILY's List, a group that backs pro-choice Democratic women for elected office.
Some insiders had wondered if she might back Nixon, given that Gillibrand through her Off the Sidelines political action committee has raised $ 6.5 million to help women candidates across the country.
Palin has endorsed candidates in gubernatorial, Senate and Congressional races around the country, calling the women candidates she backed «mama grizzlies.»
Liz Saville Roberts - The Plaid Cymru candidate, standing in Dwyfor Meirionnydd, is on track to become the party's first woman MP at Westminster after inheriting a safe seat from Elfyn Llwyd, who explained his decision to retire to the Telegraph back in April.
Chris Moss, the Republican Party's 2014 lieutenant gubernatorial candidate, said the GOP needs to focus more on appealing to women and embracing bipartisan ideas if they want to win back statewide offices in 2018.
Referring back to his Wednesday night remark that a judge who ruled against him looked like McCray, Dietl said the two women have similar - looking eyes and mouths, and noted that he did not refer to their race when he spoke about them at the Republican mayoral candidate forum.
She says that since arriving at Duke in 2007, she has pushed for equal representation of women on faculty search committees and has sent lists of faculty candidates back to departments because there were no women candidates on the list.
Newman is backed by former presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I — VT), as well as by abortion rights organizations such as Planned Parenthood, the National Organization of Women, and EMILY's List.
Most guys think meeting big women online is a simple matter of putting up a smart profile, browsing the membership base for some likely candidates, firing off an enticing email, and waiting for the responses to flood back.
In 2002, GSE research associate Cathy Trower and professor of higher education Richard Chait made the case — with data to back it up — that the «pipeline» problem, an inadequate supply of candidates, remained true in the case of minorities but not for women.
Historically, the «most viewed» list has been heavier on practical advice posts (how to write a cover letter, how long to wait to hear back after an interview, etc.), Interviewing a job candidate who won't shake hands with women.
When the Action Fund backs a candidate, voters — especially young women — know they can trust that candidate to protect and promote their health and rights.