Candidate training for women

Fact: Women make up 51% of the US population, but only 14% of the US Congress. Fair representation is the way to fair policies; we're not there yet, and we can do better.

Studies show that women win just as frequently as men. Conclusion: more women need to run for office. Studies also show that women need to be asked to run for office three times before they will do it. Conclusion: consider yourself asked, and tell your girl friends to run.

Emerge Wisconsin is a groups that recruits and trains women to run for office. Their training program is 1 weekend/month for seven months, and is the most comprehensive candidate training program that I know of. The deadline for applying for the program is November 15th, and I'm hoping that you (if you are female) will consider applying, or pass this on to women who you think should run for office.

Emerge's website: www.emergewi.org

The application can be downloaded and viewed at: http://www.emergewi.org/template.php?page=application

Sincerely,

Melissa Malott, Attorney
Water Program Director
Clean Wisconsin
122 State St., Suite 200
Madison, WI 53703
tel. (608) 251-7020 x13
fax (608) 251-1655
www.cleanwisconsin.org

Posted by Ed Blume at November 2, 2006 3:58 PM
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