Does Ohio reject women candidates? Brunner told “don’t drop out” by Republican woman
April 29, 2010
by The New Agenda
|The following article, which was written by Lauren, is cross-posted with permission from Women’s Campaign Forum. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
It seems that the Ohio political establishment doesn’t want women in power. We’ve been talking about how Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner was told from the beginning not to run—to stay in her place and wait her turn. But she decided to run anyway—and was even further abandoned and sabotaged by Democratic party leaders.
Now we learn that there was a Republican woman (Ohio State Auditor, Mary Taylor) who considered a run for U.S. Senate as well. She was quickly strong-armed out of the race—but told Brunner not to let the same happen to her.
Jennifer Brunner told us this story last year at Netroots Nation:
Why are Ohio political leaders on both sides of the aisle deliberately keeping women out of higher office? Is this yet another case of the old boys’ club saying No Girls Allowed?
And how long will we let these kind of bullying, exclusionary tactics fly? The intimidation against female candidates may occur behind closed doors, but that doesn’t mean we can’t bring it to the forefront.
This kind of strategic obstruction of women’s rise to higher power should not be tolerated or ignored any longer.
love the clip. I wondered why Taylor was gone before the discussions really started.
Clearly men consider these political offices status symbols that should go to the most powerful game player so they can collect their due graft and party in the brothels. Women are seeking election to actually do something for their country and The People, a foreign concept to the usual gaggle of men who seek office. Men believe they will be successful at excluding women or anyone else from “their” game because they believe if you control money and means of communication you can control who gets to play and win. Well they no longer control that one gate keeping device called media because of the wild wild internet. And with the internet it should be possible to reduce the amount of money needed to reach voters and also to streamline donations. I don’t think women will ever be full players in the little political farce that men have constructed, what women can do is make that game irrelevant and start playing their own game.
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