by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
There was a primary race in North Carolina this past week which will ultimately lead to the filling of a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives that became vacant with the untimely death of a sitting member of Congress. The district is bright red, so the winner of that primary should ultimately be the new representative in Congress.
The GOP race was between two presumably very bright people, both medical doctors. They were of different genders, however, and that distinction seemed to be a deciding factor among some supporters and voters. The female candidate, Dr. Joan Perry, a pediatrician, was trounced by the male, Dr. Greg Murphy, by a 60-40 margin. Some Fox News mouthpieces supported the male, as did the former an immediate past chairmen of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, but GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (the highest ranking GOP female in Congress) and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy gave their support to the female candidate.
After the 2018 congressional elections, Democrats have a record 89 women serving in Congress. The total of Republican women serving in the House dropped from 23 to thirteen. Many Republican women are now openly complaining that their work is welcomed in campaigns and behind-the-scenes drudgery, but when it comes to trotting out an actual candidate, females need not apply.
Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the second ranking Republican in the House, blames Nancy Pelosi (of course, he does) for the decline among female GOP representatives in Congress - claiming that the scheming Pelosi targeted GOP women who were running in the last election. Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, hopefully targeted all Republicans who were running in the last election - that was an important part of her job at the time as the Minority Leader of the House.
Ann Kremer, a co-founder of "Women for Trump," expressed her support of the male candidate in this past Tuesday's election this way:
Citizen Journalist
There was a primary race in North Carolina this past week which will ultimately lead to the filling of a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives that became vacant with the untimely death of a sitting member of Congress. The district is bright red, so the winner of that primary should ultimately be the new representative in Congress.
The GOP race was between two presumably very bright people, both medical doctors. They were of different genders, however, and that distinction seemed to be a deciding factor among some supporters and voters. The female candidate, Dr. Joan Perry, a pediatrician, was trounced by the male, Dr. Greg Murphy, by a 60-40 margin. Some Fox News mouthpieces supported the male, as did the former an immediate past chairmen of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, but GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (the highest ranking GOP female in Congress) and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy gave their support to the female candidate.
After the 2018 congressional elections, Democrats have a record 89 women serving in Congress. The total of Republican women serving in the House dropped from 23 to thirteen. Many Republican women are now openly complaining that their work is welcomed in campaigns and behind-the-scenes drudgery, but when it comes to trotting out an actual candidate, females need not apply.
Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the second ranking Republican in the House, blames Nancy Pelosi (of course, he does) for the decline among female GOP representatives in Congress - claiming that the scheming Pelosi targeted GOP women who were running in the last election. Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, hopefully targeted all Republicans who were running in the last election - that was an important part of her job at the time as the Minority Leader of the House.
Ann Kremer, a co-founder of "Women for Trump," expressed her support of the male candidate in this past Tuesday's election this way:
"If these women are saying that they should support women because they have the same body parts just for the sake of having more women in Congress, then they're sexist. I'm smarter than that. I vote for brains, not boobs."Meanwhile others are arguing that people who vote to keep women out of positions of power just because of their gender are themselves the boobs!
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