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theHandpuppet

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Tue Aug 12, 2014, 11:02 PM Aug 2014

Lieutenant governor, top Democrats promote Women’s Equality Party (NY)

Lieutenant governor, top Democrats promote Women’s Equality Party
By Patricia Doxsey, Daily Freeman
Kingston, NY
08/12/14

KINGSTON >> Saying women’s issues are everyone’s issues, Democratic elected officials, candidates and supporters gathered Tuesday to promote the Women’s Equality Party and the creation of a Women’s Equality line on the November ballot.

“We’ve got some problems and we’ve got issues that are unresolved,” said Kathy Hochul, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor.

Hochul was at BSP on Wall Street in uptown Kingston with incumbent Democratic senators and assembly members from throughout the region. Notably absent from the event, was Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, D-Kingston.

In addition to stumping for the creation of the new party, Hochul and others blasted the state Senate for declining to take up the Women’s Equality Act, saying the inaction was nothing short of an assault on women’s rights....

MORE at http://www.dailyfreeman.com/general-news/20140812/lieutenant-governor-top-democrats-promote-womens-equality-party
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Kicking. Thank you. littlemissmartypants Aug 2014 #1
Women are coming. littlemissmartypants Aug 2014 #2

littlemissmartypants

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2. Women are coming.
Tue Aug 12, 2014, 11:48 PM
Aug 2014

Thanks so much for your thoughtful and provocative posts.

Your presence would be missed.

Love, Peace and Shelter. Lmsp

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