PoliticalPearl: Who's Winning?: Alison Lundergan Grimes

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Women, Politics & Money: How Female Candidates are Changing the Game

I recently read an interesting article on the growing power of women to fundraise - especially women in the United State Senate. As a fundraiser, I found this article to be very true and quite on point. I'm excited to see the number of women in the Senate reach 20 and hope to see it reach 25 with the close of the 2014 elections.

Raising money is one of the most difficult tasks for political candidates and it's probably the most important. Candidates need money to hire staff, open an office and take on the day-to-day tasks needed to win an elections. Phone banking, door knocking, sign posting, polling - to name a few - are not free yet are more than necessary for any campaign hoping to win.

Female Senators have come a long way since the early 1990s when asking people for money to run for office was taboo and a very difficult ask but one thing that is helping many women is their ability to gauge female support. Just this weekend, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren sent an e-mail on behalf of Texas state Senator Wendy Davis who is running for Governor in Texas. Although Warren isn't from Texas and Davis won't be joining her in the U.S. Senate even if she does win, she clearly sees the significance of helping a friend out. The following is an excerpt of Warren's e-mail to prospective donors.

"Six months later, our champion Wendy is running for governor of Texas. She's not afraid of a tough fight, and neither are we."

Saturday, October 5, 2013

2014: The NEW Year of the Woman

Although 1992 is currently known as the Year of the Woman, 2014 is determined to give 1992 a run for it's money. With Wendy Davis' recent gubernatorial candidacy announcement in Texas, Alison Lundergan Grimes senate run in Kentucky and the vacating West Virginia Senate seat most surely to go to a woman, and Michelle Nunn virtually tied with all Republican candidates in the open Georgia Senate race, 2014 will hopefully result in an increased number of women in the United States Senate as well as various statewide positions seeing as nearly every state in the nation could use more women in statewide offices.

If you haven't heard of these women, here's your chance to learn about them now just in case you're interested in donating to or volunteering with their campaign. Although you may not live in their state, you may have friends or family residing there that you want to ensure have great leaders. And we all know it's extremely important to have good leaders in place in ever city and town in every state within this great nation. Let's do our part to make sure everyone is represented by the best candidate!