{"id":5182,"date":"2012-03-22T15:54:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T20:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2012-03-22T15:54:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T20:54:01","slug":"what-are-the-key-womens-issues-of-the-upcoming-election-there-really-is-only-one-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/22\/what-are-the-key-womens-issues-of-the-upcoming-election-there-really-is-only-one-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the key women&#8217;s issues of the upcoming election? There really is only one: Republicans."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a political meeting last night, in support of Sharon Sund, who is running against some guy for the Democratic Party nomination for MN Third District Congress, and eventually, against Erik Paulsen, who now &#8220;represents&#8221; the district.  As we were breaking up and starting to head out, two women I was standing near started talking about which women&#8217;s issues should be underscored in an upcoming event. Someone suggested &#8220;There is only one issue&#8221; and they both looked at the speaker to see what it was. &#8220;Getting a woman&#8211;this woman&#8211;elected to Congress!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then spontaneiously the two of them sang every verse of &#8220;Bread and Roses.&#8221;  It was awesome.  <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I can&#8217;t really reproduce that event for you but I can show you this video I just got from Moveon.org:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nKfNRIytENk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We women have a serious problem with the Republican Party&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And now &#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VEffTvbVqmc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh what the heck, let&#8217;s do that again with a slightly different feel:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iZWxm4zYZGY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And, what does it all mean?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X7pqNctCmSw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thank you Katie and Samantha.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a political meeting last night, in support of Sharon Sund, who is running against some guy for the Democratic Party nomination for MN Third District Congress, and eventually, against Erik Paulsen, who now &#8220;represents&#8221; the district. As we were breaking up and starting to head out, two women I was standing near &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/22\/what-are-the-key-womens-issues-of-the-upcoming-election-there-really-is-only-one-republicans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What are the key women&#8217;s issues of the upcoming election? There really is only one: Republicans.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[284,286,319],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1lA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}