Christine Todd Whitman was the female and Republican (gasp!) Governor of NJ when I was in high school. Served two terms.
Christine Todd Whitman was the female and Republican (gasp!) Governor of NJ when I was in high school. Served two terms.
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FindersKeepers (08-11-2021)
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FindersKeepers (08-11-2021)
Ann Richards, Texas, 1991, albeit Democrat.
And "Ma" Ferguson 1925 to 1927 and 1933 to 1935, albeit Democrat.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
We had Nikki Haley and she was overwhelmingly popular despite all the fake attacks by the media and the left against her.
We hated to loose her when Trump called on her to be Ambassador the UN.
We also have the black Senator Tim Scott who we feel the same about.
You Yankees from Democrat states are racist, misogynist...
You should be more inclusive like us in the Conservative Red States.
We practice what you preach.
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Alabama has a well regarded woman GOP governor, Kay Ivey.
Perhaps it's just me, but I really don't give a rats patootie what someone's gender is.
Do they have the necessary knowledge, ability, and people oriented drive for the job?
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carolina73 (08-11-2021),FindersKeepers (08-11-2021)
The last two Governors of my state have been women. One, Governor Martinez was a very good Governor who represented the people of New Mexico with honor and dignity and competence. Our current one, Govern Grisham is an idiot, a corrupt political toady who actually paid 62,500 Dollars to an ex staffer to avoid sexual harassment charges for groping him.
Two Governors, both women, as different as night and day.
Maddow is an idiot if she thinks all women achieve high office in the same way. Well, she is an idiot regardless of her opinion on this issue, but that is a subject for a different thread.
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carolina73 (08-11-2021),Peter1469 (08-12-2021)
Cool! I'm familiar with Laura Kelly, as I was paying attention to the 2018 midterm elections pretty closely, but didn't realize Kansas had elected another woman at an earlier point too.
Anyway, I don't know everything about every state's election history that way. What I will say though is that I do know that there are currently a grand total of 8 female governors in this country, that Kathy Hochul will be a 9th, and that out of those 9, at least 3 inherited that position after a male governor resigned in disgrace, in at least 2 cases specifically involving a sex-related scandal. (The other two cases that immediately come to my mind in that connection are those of Kay Ivey of Alabama and of Kate Brown of Oregon, both of whom subsequently did win election to full terms of their own, but the point for our purposes here is the start.) Those other cases are less dramatic than the issues surrounding Andrew Cuomo, but the point here is the pattern. We just don't see a proportionally common pattern among the men who assume these positions.
New York indeed seems to have an especially misogynistic political climate, being as their last three state governors in a row have all had sex abuse and/or prostitution scandals surrounding them. Perhaps that's how you get someone like Kirsten Gillibrand representing New York in the U.S. Senate (being known as the Senate's leading women's advocate); acutely misogynistic climate yields an especially strong reaction from voters, that sorta thing.
Women run for governor here all the time (and I vote for them), they just never get nominated. Well unless you count the Democratic Party's 2018 nominee, Christine Hallquist, who was a transwoman and whom went on to lose the gubernatorial election by a 15-point margin that included my vote for the Republican incumbent. I don't count Hallquist as a female nominee though.
It's a remarkable contradiction really. More than 40% of our state House of Representatives is female, which means that women are more represented in our state government than in any other in the country. Yet we are also the only state in the country to have never elected or otherwise sent either a woman or a non-white person of either sex to state-level office. At the state level, it's all white men all the time. This contradiction annoys me. It's like there's an invisible ceiling there. I think the feminists have a term for that. Glass something or other.
We in this country seem to have an especially difficult time actually electing women to executive-level positions. At 9 concurrent governorships as of two weeks from now, women are even less proportionally represented gubernatorially than in Congress, and that's saying something. And of course, likewise, we have never had a female president to this day. 46 men in a row, even after a full century of women's suffrage.
Concerning Ohio, I just Googled it and it turns out Ohio actually has had a female governor before. Nancy Hollister. (Republican.) She was never elected to the post and served as the state's governor for just 11 days, essentially finishing out the term of incumbent governor when he moved up to the Senate at the very start of 1999. She was, to date, the state's only female governor.
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