Posted on 07/01/2024 7:14:19 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate took on their party and stopped a total abortion ban from passing in their state last year. In return, they lost their jobs.
Voters removed Sens. Sandy Senn, Penry Gustafson and Katrina Shealy from office during sparsely turned out primaries in June, and by doing so completely vacated the Republican wing of the five-member “Sister Senators," a female contingent that included two Democrats and was joined in their opposition to the abortion ban.......
“Women, somebody else is going to have to stand up. Somebody else is going to have to come and make things right,” Senn said in her farewell speech on June 26.
Barring a woman winning a race in November in a district dominated by the other party, there will be only two women in the 46-member South Carolina Senate when the 126th session starts in January. No other state in the country would have fewer women in its upper chamber, according to Center of American Women in Politics. Women make up 55% of the state's registered voters.......
“When you’re on CNN and you're on MSNBC and you're on the front page of the New York Times and the front page of the Washington Post, you’re repeatedly sticking your finger in the eye of a lot of conservative folks,” Republican Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey said.......
“It can be exhausting sometimes. I felt like I was always being judged in a way my friends who are Democrats were not,” Gustafson said after her primary loss.
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What the author fails to state is that they were not kicked out because they were women, they were kicked out for voting against their constitutes and as RINOs
More women vote than men. Blame the women voters.
Repeal the 19th amendment!
Beat me to it.
Along with the 16th and 17th...
I’m OK with the 19th. Just pass laws that prohibit any woman from holding office.
That is the problem.
Exactly. No values.
All of those voters in S. Caroline, hate women, including the women who voted against the women. Misogyny is gender neutral, according to the AP.
No, the author makes it very clear that’s why they were voted out.
But the author’s quadruple negatives make it very hard to decipher what was really happening.
Is anyone reading the article? These pro choice harpies were voted OUT!
Nothing coming from AP is worth one second of your attention
More women are pro life than men, according to polls.
Obviously not in the SC Senate. Glad they are out. Shame on them.
Repeal 19
I’m female and if I could figure out a way to prevent any woman from voting or taking office, I’d do it. Even if it meant giving up my own vote.
” I felt like I was always being judged in a way my friends who are Democrats were not,”
Perhaps SC will finally realize that Linda has been behind much of this.
“I’m female and if I could figure out a way to prevent any woman from voting or taking office, I’d do it. Even if it meant giving up my own vote.”
This is Mrs. Tiger and I agree with you 100% (sad to say).
It’s just fact. Most women vote “women” first before their constitutional duty. Obviously conservative women are pretty level headed but the 19th has not been kind to the Constitutional Representative Republic.
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