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14

Congressional women’s softball: Just don’t say “They throw like girls!”

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From Politico:

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) had had enough. The boys always play baseball together and practice for hours. Though women can join, it’s rare. And so the feisty Floridian, who announced just this year that she had successfully battled breast cancer, teamed up with Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.) to create a bipartisan female softball team. They’re set to play their first — only? — game against staff from the National Republican Congressional Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee —  benefiting the Young Survival Coalition. [emphasis in original]

I particularly like how whatever proceeds they get will got to a charity.

And remember, a lot of these women now serving remember the impact Title IX had on them.

Hattip Cincinnati.com’s Politics Extra blog.

FYI: That would be…one blog (Politics Extra) taking news from another blog (Politico).  And it doesn’t seem to have made the print version of anything anywhere yet.  News anyway?  I think so.

If anyone has more news on the team and its future, please drop a comment or email.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:41 am July 14th, 2009 in Congress, Government, Politics, Sports, Women | Comments Off 

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14

Not even Nannygate or infidelity are Nannygate or infidelity anymore, so why do “small tax issues still matter”?

Filed Under Campaigning, Ethics, Government, Jennifer Brunner, lee fisher, Media, Ohio, Politics, Primary, senate, Taxes | 5 Comments

This morning’s Plain Dealer editorial page features a column by senior political reporter, Mark Naymik, titled, “Small tax issues still matter in a heated campaign, even among two Democrats.” (And hey, I read it in the printed version, not online first).

In it, Mark writes:

Taxes seem to matter to U.S. senators when people come before them seeking confirmation to administration positions. Senate candidates should be held to the same standard. This doesn’t rival a Nannygate or an extramarital affair, but small tax issues still matter in a heated campaign, even among two Democrats.

Okay, but…between U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, U.S. Senator from Nevada, John Ensign (R) and and South Carolina’s Governor Mark Sanford (R), not even a Nannygate-sized tax problem or high tabloid-drama extramarital affairs seem to matter – Geithner got confirmed and Ensign and Sanford continue to serve in their elected positions.

Given that big tax issues didn’t matter for Geithner – the man overseeing our country’s treasury, and absolutely kookie circumstances of admitted infedility don’t matter for Ensign or Sanford, how is it that “…small tax issues still matter in a heated campaign, even among two Democrats”?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:27 am July 14th, 2009 in Campaigning, Ethics, Government, Jennifer Brunner, lee fisher, Media, Ohio, Politics, Primary, senate, Taxes | 5 Comments 

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