A first wave of women targets Republicans after Ga. 'heartbeat' vote

[RandySF]

Georgia Democrats promised to launch new challenges against Republican lawmakers who voted for the “heartbeat” anti-abortion bill. And a first wave of those candidates announced those plans just days after the legislative session ended.

At a press conference Friday under the Gold Dome that veered from somber to celebratory, seven women Democrats announced challenges against seven Republican incumbents – of whom six are men. The announcements were organized by Georgia Win List, which backs pro-choice Democratic women. It wasn’t meant as an endorsement, said executive director Melita Easters, but “just the beginning” of a long candidate roll-out.

“There will be a strong slate of women candidates for 2020,” said Easters. “We will flip the House and hopefully the Senate. It’s time.

”Many of the women were already planning to run before the legislative session, but said the passage of House Bill 481, which outlaws most abortions as soon as a heartbeat is detected, helped cement their decision.



https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/first-wave-women-targets-republicans-after-heartbeat-vote/8nw4J2OhUGv0hnBCAX0JVM/

[CousinIT]

1. Women shouldn't have waited so long

To massively enter the public sphere. And they still haven't done so "massively", I guess.

Why wait until the men who run everything legislate your bodily autonomy, your freedom away and veritably sexually and reproductively ENSLAVE you - to finally run for public office? Slavery was allegedly outlawed with the 13th amendment. But women have ever been enslaved (dark and white-skinned alike all over the world) by the minority of men who run things.

Why tolerate this? And for SO long.

Women sell themselves short. They underestimate their own power and seem loathe to use it. Even to their own detriment.

For God's sake TAKE CONTROL.

[WhiteTara]

2. When men get their bootheels off our necks

we will stand. At the moment we are still wresting men's stinky feet off our bodies.

But like air, we rise
Like dust, we rise

And when we are all Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton in our own stature, the world will change. We are fighting 7000 years of oppression (isn't that how old the old testament is supposed to be? if not, how ever long that patriarchal screed has been around) It takes awhile to awaken from the Stockholm Syndrome, but still we rise.

Men underestimate us. If you're a supporter of women, that man should completely remove his bootheel and allow us to rise to our potential, not your idea of what our potentials are.

[brer cat]

3. +++

[WhiteTara]

4. You are such a friend

[Wounded Bear]

5. Love the sentiment, but there are a lot of women wearing those boots...

By and large, women don't face the same kind of voter suppression that racial minorities do. Their problem has been brainwashing, largely by religious organizations that convince them to live "under the heels" of men. Too many women have participated in their own subjugation.

Frankly, I'm loving that women in Georgia are finally starting to feel their strength and rise up to counter the RW bullshit. I only hope it is not too late.

[WhiteTara]

6. that brainwashing is called Stockholm Syndrome

where the captive becomes a devotee of the captor. White women have a much easier life than black women and it is quite true that the heavily brainwashed will never come out from under that "comfortable" bootheel; more and more women are waking up to who and what they are.