Day 71: Electing More Women

Tonight I hosted the National Women's Political Caucus - LA Westside Chapter Membership Meeting & Board Elections. It was a smashing success! We elected a new energized Board of Directors including many new members. We welcomed several new members to our group and we heard from two NWPC endorsed candidates who both won their primaries in June!

Holly J. Mitchell, (pictured above on the right) won in the 47th Assembly District and Betsy Butler was the Democratic winner in the 53rd Assembly District. Both women will have to win their General Elections in November, so the fight is not over! Pictured here with Holly is Kate Anderson, also a candidate in the 53rd Assembly District. While she was not victorious NWPC has great hopes that Kate will run again and win!

Long time NWPC leader both with the LA Westside Chapter and the State Board, Jane Hasler Henick, led our Board elections. Jane is pictured here to the right leading the elections. The slate of candidates was elected unanimously and I'm happy to be back on the Board in an official capacity. I will always be grateful to my NWPC sisters who supported me in both of my campaigns and who have remained loyal and committed supporters of our mission to elect more women to office. And I'm thrilled to have new Board members to work with!

Pictured here are some of our seasoned and new Board members. Pictured left to right are Jane Hasler Henick, Stephanie Molen, Barbara Greene Ruskin, Me, Betsy Johnson, our Chapter's co-president and Lindsay Bubar, Chapter co-president.


Pictured below is our new VP of Communications Karriann Farrell Hinds speaking to the group about why she wants to serve on the NWPC Board and her commitment to electing more women to office.


The energy was really terrific! I mean when you put 40 plus high energy, committed, passionate and active women in a room together with a little wine you know the volume is going to be pumping , and it was. The conversations were interesting and the roll out of plans for the coming year are exciting. The work is never done. There is always a woman candidate to groom, to fundraise for, to walk precincts for and to help elect. We all need to be committed to keeping the pipeline full of viable women candidates and doing whatever we can to help them be victorious.

I'd like to give a special shout out to my NWPC colleague Jill Prestup Eltrich for getting our chapter's website up and live! Thank you Jill for your tireless commitment to seeing this project through to completion! Please visit us at www.nwpclawestside.org to learn more about our events and activities. And please consider joining with me to continue our great work in politics! In Sisterhood!

Day 51: The Girls's Won

Not only did my Holly J. Mitchell win the 47th Assembly District seat, but the UCLA Girl's Softball Team WON the NCAA Championship!

This is HUGE! I mean really huge! Had it been the boys baseball team it would be all over... but it's softball and the girls unfortunately always take second fiddle... so that's why I want to give our young women of the UCLA softball team a shout out tonight as our local winners!

Yes, my candidate for my state Assembly district has WON -- Holly J. Mitchell -- so I am celebrating her victory, but also I am celebrating these remarkable women of UCLA who won the 2010 NCAA Championship! It is an enormous honor and a tribute to their athleticism and commitment to softball and their team! I salute them for their hard work. As they were working hard on the field I know many candidates, Melissa Fox, Kate Anderson, Susan Jordan, Holly Mitchell and many others were pounding the pavement for their campaigns and I salute them too! Win or lose you are all winners for going for it and making a difference whether in sports or in your community!


Go Girls Go !!!!