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SD-19: Hannah-Beth Jackson - A Tireless Advocate
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Reverse The Decline!
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Reverse The Decline!
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A Lesson From California
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Newsletter Archive

CALIFORNIA LIST NEWSLETTER #49

CALIFORNIA LIST Newsletter -Post Primary - June 2008
SLOW DECLINE OF WOMEN LEGISLATORS CONTINUES

While the nation’s political attention has been focused on the Democratic presidential primary election, our Democratic women candidates here in California ran competitive campaigns in really difficult races AND won! However, yesterday’s primary was a bittersweet victory.


CALIFORNIA LIST NEWSLETTER #48

CALIFORNIA LIST Newsletter - May 2008
Hunger For Change

This election has revved up our political process unlike anything we have seen in decades. Across the country, Democrats are showing up to participate in campaigns, and voting in record numbers. As the presidential campaign gets more and more interesting it is energizing voters across all partisian lines.[…]


CALIFORNIA LIST NEWSLETTER #47

Gender In Politics Today
By Bettina Duval, Founder, CALIFORNIA LIST
The current Democratic presidential primary race has proven to be historic on many fronts – the duration of the challenge, the diversity of the candidates, and the discussions which have been inspired.
Senator Barack Obama’s recent speech was a wonderful, honest, personal interpretation of feelings about race and […]


CALIFORNIA LIST NEWSLETTER #46

Post Primary Update
California’s election on Tuesday saw a record turnout as voters came out in high numbers to cast their ballots for the Presidential primary and the ballot propositions. It was a good night for women in California. The narrow defeat of Proposition 93 means that the pipeline of women candidates running in 2008 will […]


CALIFORNIA LIST NEWSLETTER #45

“Of my two “handicaps” being female
put more obstacles in my path than being black.”
- Former Presidential Candidate and Congresswoman, Shirley Chisholm
When Shirley Chisholm ran for president in 1972 only three women had ever held the office of Governor . . . all were elected as surrogates to replace their deceased husbands. At that […]


CONTRIBUTE
SPOTLIGHT ON SUCCESS

Karen Bass

KAREN BASS
Speaker of the California State Assembly

Karen Bass has been a State Assembly Member representing Los Angeles’ 47th Assembly District since 2005. In May 2008, she made history when the Los Angeles Democrat became the 67th Speaker of the California State Assembly, catapulting a Democratic woman to the post for the first time in the state ’s history. Along with the California political first, Speaker Bass makes national history as the first African American woman in the country to serve in this powerful state legislative role.

A CALIFORNIA LIST endorsed candidate, Assembly Member Karen Bass was elected November 2, 2004, to represent the 47th Assembly District which includes the cities of Los Angeles and Culver City, as well as the communities of Ladera Heights, Baldwin Hills, View Park, Cheviot Hills, Westwood-UCLA and Windsor Hills.