Was Krystal Ball's rant a revenge piece? What say you?

[mfcorey1]

Krystal BallDemocratic strategist
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The Next Glass Ceiling


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After I won the primary, I expected to receive huge fundraising support from Hillary Clinton and Obama donors, as well as the Facebook generation of my peers. I did things out of the box. I rented out the IMAX theater on Christmas day for fundraising showings of Avatar, making $5 per ticket on 1,000 tickets, selling them via Facebook ads and getting to meet every voter. We raised money online, more than 6,000 donors from all over the country who loved seeing someone their own age running for office. I was very successful getting support from those who supported President Obama, because my generation of young women is actually an Obama-Hillary fusion. We aspire to have Hillary's spine of steel and desire to over-prepare and we have President Obama's idealism. But I wasn't that successful in getting support from the powerful women who formed the core of Hillary's Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit. These were the women I looked up to, who had blazed the trail for me, I hoped to earn their support more than anything and they didn't support me in the numbers I had hoped for.

I wondered, was it because they felt I hadn't paid my dues? Was it because they were worried, that with my relative inexperience, men wouldn't take me seriously and I might enforce the stereotypes they had worked so hard to break down? I was often told to cut my hair, to wear shorter heels, to dress in drab colors. I realized it was actually because they wanted to protect me. They did this because, for their generation, female sexuality was dangerous to display in the workplace, especially in politics.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/krystal-ball/the-next-glass-ceiling_b_757819.html

[MADem]

1. Revenge directed at whom? nt

[dsc]

2. It would have been nice if you had bothered to quote this in your excerpt

However, my biggest support during this whole sad episode of my life has come from supporters of Hillary Clinton. In effect, they have been telling me that what happened to me could have happened to one of their daughters. They will not see their daughters called whores when they run for office just because of some college or post-college party. They will not watch the tide of everything they fought for washed away by the public exposure of female sexuality. Once again, like the heroes that they were a generation ago when they made their careers, they are stepping up to protect young women like me and to support us and to help us to grow up. We are young women. And we are dedicated to serving this country. And we will run for office. And we will win.

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Let's just say I have my doubts the absence of this paragraph was an accident.

[Fumesucker]

3. +1

[mfcorey1]

4. You are right. I only asked this question because a couple of posters

in my other op indicated that they lived in Krystal's district when she ran for office . They also posted that she was angry with HIllary because her supporters did not help her and were partly responsible for her loss. I am just opening for that if there is another side. There is no beef here for Krystal. Forum is just open for any opposing side.