Posted on 10/08/2015 4:31:50 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Sharon Day rose through the ranks of GOP politics, starting as a precinct captain in her native Florida and eventually co-chairing the Republican National Committee.
But Day said she’d never be in the position she’s in today if people hadn’t empowered her to run for those roles. And she’s made it her mission to pay it forward to encourage more Republican women to become activists in the party and to run for office — all in the hopes of making women a more integral part of the GOP.
“I think for women, we’re built different than men in that we won’t go out blindly and run for something,” Day told CQ Roll Call last week at the The Willard hotel, where the RNC was hosting a summit to encourage Republican women to take a more active role in politics.
“Women have to have the knowledge to go forward and they have to feel comfortable that they have that ability and that knowledge,” Day continued. “So I think what we try to encourage and offer is that, if you want to be a candidate or an activist, these are the tools that we have at the RNC and here is how you use the tools and the abilities that you have.”
The Oct. 2 event was part of a series of gatherings the RNC has held over the past few years to encourage Republican women to come out from behind the curtain and run for office, run campaigns or merely inform their friends and neighbors about Republican ideas and goals.
About 150 Republican women were in attendance from all over the country, from New York to Alaska, and all were seeking to learn about the tools to help break the narrative that Republican women are rare.
(Excerpt) Read more at atr.rollcall.com ...
This is a positive development. We can’t win elections on the basis of white men alone.
Go back in the kitchen and make me a sammich!
Oh, good greif. Enough with the ‘gonad inclusion’ crap.
Yeah, like Elizabeth Dole, Kelly Ayotte, Renee Elmers, Carly Fiorina, Dede Scozzafava, Lisa Murkowski, etc.
I want competent constitutionalists. ..don’t give a rip about their anatomy. ..and I’m a woman
Republicans should try getting white men first, then see what happens.
+1
And I ran for office...nonpartisan..so they said..wink...wink...and won twice..no one “empowered” me...
Except Sarah Palin apparently.
If women are strong and equal, why do they need to be “empowered” to do something?
I hate that word. It’s so touchy-feely the text almost wiggles.
I hate that word. It’s so touchy-feely the text almost wiggles.
That has always the RNC failing, accepting the argument, premises and language of the Marxists. Its this acceptance of the Alinsky tactics that has them in the pickel now.
Yes, “empower” is almost as
sick-making as “reach out to.”
Ditto! And well said!
LOL, you read my mind! Is “contact” not squishy enough?
Girls have cooties.
“no one “empowered” me”
You empowered yourself, the only true source of personal power. If someone is empowered because of others, they can be unempowered by others just as easily.
“If women are strong and equal, why do they need to be “empowered” to do something?”
WHEN women are strong and equal, it’s because they’ve empowered themselves, the only true source of personal power. No amount of empowering by others will make up for the lack of innate, personal power.
I hope the voters did? ;-)
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