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10
My letter to the PD editors:
Today’s (11/10/07) editorial in the Plain Dealer about the extinction of GOP women in the state senate included former state senator Grace Drake’s belief that GOP Senate presidents in the 1980s and 90s “actively sought women to run for the Senate.” But the editorial doesn’t go on to tell readers the attitude of the current state senate president, Bill Harris.
The Columbus Dispatch, on 10/21/07, quotes Harris as saying, “We’ve just not been successful in doing that. It’s not been intentional.” He also blamed term limits, as does the PD editorial.
Why are the editors pulling punches on Harris? If Drake could point to past senate presidents as “actively” seeking women to run, shouldn’t this editorial tell Ohioans whether the current senate president is doing the same, and if not, why not, rather than just blaming term limits?
Sincerely,
Your former independently contracted political blogger from that Wide Open experiment that started to scare the bejeesus out of some people in the PD newsroom because change can be scary even when we have no choice so we resist it until death is at our door and then we wish we’d just figured out a way to all get along but by then it’s too late
No, I didn’t actually leave that as a signature.
I know who reads my blog.
Update: Did you know that letters@plaind.com doesn’t work anymore? Learn something new everyday. If you want to write a letter to the PD, you can’t email directly anymore, but you can go to this page now. New filtering system, I guess.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:06 pm November 10th, 2007 in Blogging, Elections, Ohio, Politics, Statehouse, Wide Open, Women
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Jill:
Still looking for this letter to appear. Heard anything? (and no, I’m not joking).
As a matter of fact, yes – I received a call earlier today asking me to verify the letter as mine because they are considering it for publication. Thanks for asking.
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