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This U.S. District Could ‘Demolish The Glass Ceiling’ In November With First All-Female Ticket [Excerpt]
Huffington Post
September 16, 2016
WASHINGTON― For the first time in American history, a group of voters in Nevada has the chance to elect all women in November, from the presidency and Congress all the way down to the state Assembly.
In Henderson, Nevada, just south of Las Vegas, voters will be looking at an all-female ticket on the Democratic side: Hillary Clinton for president, former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto for the Senate, Jacky Rosen for the House, Joyce Woodhouse for Nevada State Senate and Lesley Cohen for Nevada State Assembly.
“Growing up as a young girl in the 1960s, before Title IV and the feminist movement, I never could have imagined that so many women could be running for office and making a difference,” Rosen told The Huffington Post. “I’m proud and excited about it.”
Rosen, a longtime computer programmer and newcomer to politics, was recruited by outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to run for the seat being vacated by Rep. Joe Heck (R). Rosen believes Nevada’s third district is the perfect place to elect the nation’s first all-female ticket because the voters seem to understand that women bring a unique set of skills to public office.
“It’s a common-sense district where people know that women work across the aisle to get things done,” she said. “Women know that they have to talk to each other. They go get a cup of coffee with each other. They go to work when the weather is bad, when it’s snowing or blizzarding outside. They have the ability to listen, to understand, to have empathy.”
Rosen is nearly tied in the polls with her tea party Republican opponent, Danny Tarkanian, in the race for the swing seat. Tarkanian wants to defund Planned Parenthood, ban abortion even in cases of rape and incest, build a “strong wall” between the U.S. and Mexico and make America “respected and feared again,” according to his campaign website. Rosen supports abortion rights and Planned Parenthood funding, backs the Affordable Care Act and advocates for a “higher livable wage.”