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Meet All The Pro-Choice Women Victorious In Last Night’s Election!

Jessica WakemanNovember 7, 2012 //
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Ladies' Night!
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Oh my God, you guys. I didn’t realize just how BIG us pro-choice feminists won last night’s election until compiling this list. It’s not just that we have more four years of President Obama — we also have our first openly gay person to serve in the Senate, the first Asian-American women in both the House and Senate, the first Hindu to serve in Congress, and several other “firsts” too numerous to list.

I could honestly not be prouder to be a progressive American than I am today. And yes, I’m including 2008 in that statement! After the jump, thanks to EMILY’S List, here is a list of all the pro-choice female politicians who won last night.

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Scott Brown Pays Homeless To Be His “Supporters”

NewserOctober 16, 2012 //

The Scott Brown campaign has admitted that it has been paying homeless people to demonstrate in Boston’s working-class Roxbury neighborhood with signs declaring themselves “Obama Supporters for Brown.” Benjamin Thomas, the former city elections commissioner running the operation, tells the Boston Herald that these “supporters” are paid a per-diem that “works out to” about $8 an hour, financed through the GOP’s MassVictory program. But he insists that all of them would support Brown even if they weren’t being paid. Thomas, who is black, says the program is designed to appeal to black voters.  Read more…

Today’s Lady News: Scott Brown Comments On Elizabeth Warren’s Body

Jessica WakemanOctober 6, 2011 //
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  • Massachusetts Governor Senator Scott Brown made an obnoxious comment about his opponent Elizabeth Warren’s body. (Thanks to commenter  PhD_Bookworm for the correction!) [Slate]
  • Meet Angella Reid, the first-ever woman to become the White House’s Chief Usher. [Madame Noire]
  • On the movement to stop shackling female prisoners during childbirth. [Colorlines] Keep reading »