In 2012, the voters replaced Brown in the Senate with Elizabeth Warren, who will clean up the financial mess those rich white guys have made, and Tammy Duckworth handily beat Tea Party candidate Joe Walsh, the first Asian-American woman, and first female disabled veteran to serve in Illinois and then in the US House. Then there is Tammy Baldwin, first openly gay person to serve in the Senate.
Women like these are not just crashing a lot of glass ceilings, they are fighting for those of us who have been out-numbered and out-spent. They have looked at the horrific quality of life that greed and ignorance have brought to bear in our country and said, "Uh-uh, no more." They are fighting for pay equity, a living wage, and food stamps and health care. They are fighting to regain losses in women's reproductive freedom and privacy and protections from violence.
We have another election cycle coming up, and those republican men are still trying to take away our health care, food stamps, birth control, public radio and public schools. Despite the crazy-quilt of gerrymandering, we have some great women running for office, and we are not going to be defeated.
And I'm hoping to write about as much of it as I can.
Some of you may not remember her name, but Wendy Davis recently became a hero when she stood her ground on the floor of the Texas State Legislature filibustering the medieval abortion regulations being proposed. In true Texas fashion, men first created tough filibuster rules and then tried to break the filibuster anyway, followed by creating new rules so that they could pass the bill at a later date.
So Wendy Davis is running for governor.
We'll move this country forward and take the old white men with us. We're on our feet and we're not going anywhere but up.
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