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In solidarity, Senate women help female candidates
In solidarity, Senate women help female candidates
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Shelley Moore Capito's responsibilities are familiar to many women: plan her daughter's May wedding, look out for her elderly parents and concentrate on her day job. The Republican congresswoman from West Virginia is also running for the U.S. Senate.
"I'm doing what every woman in America does, I'm multitasking," Capito says.
She's getting some help from women who've been there and done that.
The Senate's 20 women, emboldened by their recent political and legislative successes, are determined to swell their ranks this November. They're providing campaign help to the female candidates from West Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Iowa and Oregon looking to smash a few glass ceilings, and hopefuls from Michigan and Hawaii intent on giving their state an all-female Senate lineup.
Two-term Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who lent a neighborly hand in 2012 to North Dakota's Heidi Heitkamp and Wisconsin's Tammy Baldwin, will be heading to Georgia in the coming weeks to help first-time candidate Michelle Nunn.
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Full article here: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SENATE_FEMALE_SOLIDARITY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-01-22-15-37-59