Kudos. We like winning.
by Tom Sullivan
Women’s March 2017 by Mobilus In Mobili via Creative Commons.
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The millions of women who took to the streets in January haven’t gone home just to knit more pink hats. They are running for office. And winning. We knew women won big in Virginia three weeks ago, but I didn’t know this:
For the first time since 1961, Chesterfield County backed a Democrat for governor — and the driving forces in this Richmond suburb included women who defiantly trumpeted a political label their party has ducked for decades.
“Are we done?” Kim Drew Wright asked members of the organization that she and her allies christened the Liberal Women of Chesterfield County after President Trump’s election last year.
“Noooooo!” the women shouted back.
As bad as things have seemed since last November, as disappointed as many are in the performance of the organs of the national Democratic Party (guilty pleasure writing that), these women kicked ass at the local level. That’s where Trumpism will be defeated.
Digby presented this story last night, but this passage in particular caught my attention:
The Liberal Women of Chesterfield County is an example of a new breed of Democratic activism in the Richmond suburbs. The group, which says it has admitted nearly 3,000 followers to its private Facebook page, has established 13 neighborhood chapters and canvassed more than 50,000 homes in a get-out-the-vote effort. On Election Day, the group worked with the local Democratic committee to staff all 75 of the county’s polling places, something that the local party on its own had previously been unable to accomplish.
Kudos to Liberal Women of Chesterfield County and the Chesterfield County Democratic Committee. Mobilized women are a force to reckon with.
We have 80 precincts in the Cesspool of Sin, and it is a chore, but our Democratic committee staffs them. Plus 20 or so Early Voting sites for 10 days before Election Day. Many more rural counties do not or cannot, in part, because they have never been taught how.
If you work with your county committee, follow the link below to find out more. We win local races in this purple state when others are losing. There’s a reason for that.
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