Nevada could elect first-ever female-majority statehouse

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reno Gazette-Journal


Monday, July 23 2018
Reno Gazette-Journal

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada voters could soon make history by electing the country's first female-majority state legislature.

Women, after winning a record number of primary contests last month, could make up nearly two-thirds of the statehouse by Nov. 7, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported .

"In the past, we've had to ask women five, six, seven times to run for office," said Danna Lovell, director of Emerge Nevada, a Democrat-linked candidate training nonprofit based in Las Vegas. "Whereas now, they're worried. They're scared about what's going on in their communities. ... I think there's an extremely great possibility for a female majority."

Women, based on their party registration and the partisan makeup of their districts, are favored to control 27 seats heading into the 2019 Nevada Legislature — 19 in the Assembly and eight in the Senate, a Reno Gazette Journal analysis of voter registration data shows.

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[cstanleytech]

1. Speaking as a guy I am all for it. Why? Because I look at the messes that keep happening

time after time with varies governments around the world and the one thing almost all of them have in common is that there is a majority of men. Men who have become corrupted and feel like they are entitled.
That's not to say women cannot do the same because anyone can however history does not show governments with a majority of women in charge have done so time after time.

[Honeycombe8]

2. Whoa! That's something I've never heard before. I'm over 60...who knew that could happen?

When I was a kid in school, girls didn't have school sports, had to wear dresses, couldn't work in certain fields, there were no female doctors in my area, and all the rest.

NOW...I wish I were 18 again, so I could know what it feels like to have so many options! I never would have thought any state might have a female majority legislature. Not in my wildest dreams.