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Welcome
Congresswomen
committed to change!
WAND
PAC is excited to annouce that five of our candidates
were elected to the 111th Congress.
Senator
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)*
Rep.
Debbie Halvorson (IL-11)*
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (OH-15)
Rep. Betsy Markey (CO-4)
Rep. Chellie Pingree (ME-1)*
They
join five other new WAND/WiLL Congresswomen
who won special elections.
Rep.
Donna Edwards (MD-4)
Rep. Marcia Fudge (OH-11)
Rep.Laura Richardson (CA-37)*
Rep. Jackie Speier (CA-12)*
Rep. Niki Tsongas (MA-5)
This
brings the number of WAND/WiLL women in the
111th Congress to 48!
We're
especially pleased that TENwomen from the ranks
of WiLL ran for Congress in 2008. We've been
working for years to establish a pipeline of
progressive, pragmatic, skilled women who will
run for higher office during their careers.
It's a major step towards fundamental and lasting
change!
* WiLL member
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to r: Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI), WAND executive
director Susan Shaer, Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy
(OH)
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That's
newly elected Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson
(IL-11) (c) with WAND staff Christina Cernansky
(l) and Marie Rietmann (r). We're especially
excited to welcome Debbie to Congress: she
made the decision to run while attending
the 2007 WAND/WiLL national conference in
DC! |
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l:
Congresswoman Niki Tsongas (MA); r: WiLL
president Sen. Nan Grogan Orrock (GA)
with Congresswoman Diane Watson (CA)
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