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Jon Husted gives two GOP women endangered species protection


Anyone remember this post, from 10/22? It highlighted a Columbus Dispatch story about the dwindling number of GOP women in the Ohio statehouse, and the near extinction of the species in the Ohio Senate.

Today, Politics Extra posted this item re: Ohio House Speaker’s move to prevent such extinction on the other side of the GA:

State Reps. Michelle Schneider and Shannon Joneshave been promoted to majority leadership positions by Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted.

It’s the first time in the history of the Ohio House that two women have served in majority leadership positions.

Husted, R-Kettering, announced the changes Wednesday.

[snip]

“This is a significant day for Representative Schneider, Representative Jones and for our caucus,” Husted said in a news statement. “I have no doubt that the two – in conjunction with our entire leadership team – will continue to provide strong leadership for the members of this chamber. I’m proud of them both and am looking forward to the work we’ll accomplish in the days and months ahead.”

Apparently Schneider is term-limited, and Jones is the freshman who hitched a ride on fellow GOP frosh Josh Mandel’s star, specifically the effort to divest Ohio pensions from companies that have dealings with Iran and Sudan.

Anyone besides me still saying, mouth agape, “first time in the history of the Ohio House that two women have served in majority leadership positions”?

You know, just like that – emphasis and all?

I’ll be stuck on that for a long while.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:44 pm November 8th, 2007 in Government, Ohio, Politics, Statehouse, Women 

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One Response to “Jon Husted gives two GOP women endangered species protection”

  1. 1 Why Wide Open mattered to news consumers (PD 3 weeks late to the news) | Writes Like She Talks on November 10th, 2007 11:41 am

    [...] 11/8/07, on WLST (it would have gone onto Wide Open, but, well, we all know what happened there): Jon Husted gives two GOP women endangered species protection (this time, I used information from Politics Extra as the [...]

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