Comments on: FDL Late Nite: Single Women http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:04:21 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: kirk murphy http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-170047 kirk murphy Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:21:55 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-170047 <p>Hi firepups -</p> <p>I’ve been playing with my family…so much fun to see my 80 year-old father surprised at his birthday party - by old fiends, his sisters and brothers-in-law, his wife and children - and his employees - he’s still working in the business he founded almost fifty years ago!</p> <p>Hope you all have been having a great weekend!</p> <p>I’m just dippig in on the thread, and not trying to crash the moderators’ party…but if I could be assistance as moderator from time to time, I’m happy to volunteer.</p> Hi firepups -

I’ve been playing with my family…so much fun to see my 80 year-old father surprised at his birthday party – by old fiends, his sisters and brothers-in-law, his wife and children – and his employees – he’s still working in the business he founded almost fifty years ago!

Hope you all have been having a great weekend!

I’m just dippig in on the thread, and not trying to crash the moderators’ party…but if I could be assistance as moderator from time to time, I’m happy to volunteer.

]]> By: Nathanael Nerode http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-170037 Nathanael Nerode Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:10:52 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-170037 <p>ERA now.</p> <p>Single-payer universal health care.</p> <p>Out of Iraq now.</p> <p>These are the easy ones.</p> ERA now.

Single-payer universal health care.

Out of Iraq now.

These are the easy ones.

]]> By: lightly http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169814 lightly Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:16:19 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169814 <p>Also, didn’t it say in the opening post that single women are already the most consistently progressive voting bloc? I just mention that because as good as all the ideas are about how to pitch platforms to single women, it sounds like we already know the Republicans are hurting us even if we don’t have computer access or watch the evening news on t.v. Single women don’t have to learn second hand that our lives are worse under Republicans, we know it from direct experience.</p> Also, didn’t it say in the opening post that single women are already the most consistently progressive voting bloc? I just mention that because as good as all the ideas are about how to pitch platforms to single women, it sounds like we already know the Republicans are hurting us even if we don’t have computer access or watch the evening news on t.v. Single women don’t have to learn second hand that our lives are worse under Republicans, we know it from direct experience.

]]> By: lightly http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169811 lightly Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:11:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169811 <p>Another idea -</p> <p>Some site like Kos for pinpointing where the unregistered single female voters are state by state and county by county. I like the idea of organizing at the hairdressers or getting five friends to register five women, but it might not be enough to put a dent in the large numbers of women who appear to be unregistered.</p> <p>The idea of absentee ballots and registration by mail sound very good - that addresses the problem of lack of money and childcare demands faced by single mothers.</p> <p>What other places might we find large numbers of unregistered single women? Supermarkets? Thrift shops?</p> Another idea -

Some site like Kos for pinpointing where the unregistered single female voters are state by state and county by county. I like the idea of organizing at the hairdressers or getting five friends to register five women, but it might not be enough to put a dent in the large numbers of women who appear to be unregistered.

The idea of absentee ballots and registration by mail sound very good – that addresses the problem of lack of money and childcare demands faced by single mothers.

What other places might we find large numbers of unregistered single women? Supermarkets? Thrift shops?

]]> By: Dumbo http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169791 Dumbo Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:32:39 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169791 <p>I know the ideal demographic group to go after.</p> <p>Car Drivers. Count’em. There are MILLIONS of ‘em. Heck, you’re probably a car driver.</p> <p>Car drivers use GAS. And they feel USED everytime they tank up. And they suspect that the gas companies are ripping them off, and that the Republicans care more about big oil companies than us. And a sizeable part of the population, including many right-wingers (this surprises me) think that we are in Iraq for the oil.</p> <p>So we have our demographic. And we have our enemy. Just as Hitler had the Jews and Bush has the gays, we have the oil companies. That is a much less sympathetic group to target, if you ask me.</p> <p>Just take all the usual rhetoric, lies, and smears that the Nazis and the Republicans have used against Jews and gays, respectively, and apply them to the oil companies, instead. And just as the Republicans are able to filter every single electoral issue through the prism of 9/11, we can filter every single issue, no matter how far removed, through the prism of oil.</p> <p>Hurricanes? It’s the oil companies fighting global warming science. Iraq? Halliburton’s getting rich. K-street corruption? Oil companies are connected to it in some way at every phase.</p> I know the ideal demographic group to go after.

Car Drivers. Count’em. There are MILLIONS of ‘em. Heck, you’re probably a car driver.

Car drivers use GAS. And they feel USED everytime they tank up. And they suspect that the gas companies are ripping them off, and that the Republicans care more about big oil companies than us. And a sizeable part of the population, including many right-wingers (this surprises me) think that we are in Iraq for the oil.

So we have our demographic. And we have our enemy. Just as Hitler had the Jews and Bush has the gays, we have the oil companies. That is a much less sympathetic group to target, if you ask me.

Just take all the usual rhetoric, lies, and smears that the Nazis and the Republicans have used against Jews and gays, respectively, and apply them to the oil companies, instead. And just as the Republicans are able to filter every single electoral issue through the prism of 9/11, we can filter every single issue, no matter how far removed, through the prism of oil.

Hurricanes? It’s the oil companies fighting global warming science. Iraq? Halliburton’s getting rich. K-street corruption? Oil companies are connected to it in some way at every phase.

]]> By: kija http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169782 kija Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:26:57 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169782 <p>Issues for Single Women:</p> <p>Single Payer Health Insurance<br /> Insurance coverage of contraception<br /> Reproductive Health/Justice: not just abortion rights, but also adoption, etc.<br /> Childcare == not just cost and access, but quality. Many single women are also mothers.<br /> Violence Against Women Act renewal — putting teeth into restraining orders. Violation of a restraining order = jail time<br /> Housing Costs<br /> Payday lending<br /> Equality in lending/insurance, etc.<br /> Pay equity</p> Issues for Single Women:

Single Payer Health Insurance
Insurance coverage of contraception
Reproductive Health/Justice: not just abortion rights, but also adoption, etc.
Childcare == not just cost and access, but quality. Many single women are also mothers.
Violence Against Women Act renewal — putting teeth into restraining orders. Violation of a restraining order = jail time
Housing Costs
Payday lending
Equality in lending/insurance, etc.
Pay equity

]]> By: lightly http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169752 lightly Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:41:19 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169752 <p>Pardon the multiple posts but, that said …</p> <p>All the brainstorming I’m seeing about which issues will appeal to women is fine, but I wonder if it isn’t putting the cart before the horse.</p> <p>Don’t policy makers desperately court whichever voting blocs they know are large and organized? Hispanics, evangelicals, yada yada.</p> <p>So if we just get some massive infusion of single women to the polls and they vote straight Democratic tickets at the start … after that, won’t Moses come to the mountain?<br /> At that point, won’t the powers-that-be start doing their own scrambling to figure out what this new monster voting bloc wants?</p> Pardon the multiple posts but, that said …

All the brainstorming I’m seeing about which issues will appeal to women is fine, but I wonder if it isn’t putting the cart before the horse.

Don’t policy makers desperately court whichever voting blocs they know are large and organized? Hispanics, evangelicals, yada yada.

So if we just get some massive infusion of single women to the polls and they vote straight Democratic tickets at the start … after that, won’t Moses come to the mountain?
At that point, won’t the powers-that-be start doing their own scrambling to figure out what this new monster voting bloc wants?

]]> By: lightly http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169740 lightly Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:31:21 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169740 <p>Another point - low income women don’t get time off to vote. They either get fired for taking time off or, at the very least, lose money out of their paychecks. When your slim pink paycheck already doesn’t cover your living costs, losing even a penny of earnings is a nightmare.</p> <p>And I don’t think it can be stressed enough that arrangements for caring for children have to be a part of everything. Either bring the little ones along or start a network of childcare volunteers, a big one, available during elections. </p> <p>Frankly, to get that big turnout we want, I think making plans to accomodate the money and childcare concerns of single women are crucial. After all, why aren’t all these progressive women at the polls? It’s not because we don’t know better. It’s because we literally and materially can’t get there. Barefoot and pregnant isn’t just Dominionist ideology. It is a time tested highly successful method for preventing this leviatian progessive voting bloc from making it’s power felt.</p> <p>It’s the kids and the poverty people. Help women overcome those obstacles long enough to get us to the polls, and you’ve got your numbers.</p> Another point – low income women don’t get time off to vote. They either get fired for taking time off or, at the very least, lose money out of their paychecks. When your slim pink paycheck already doesn’t cover your living costs, losing even a penny of earnings is a nightmare.

And I don’t think it can be stressed enough that arrangements for caring for children have to be a part of everything. Either bring the little ones along or start a network of childcare volunteers, a big one, available during elections.

Frankly, to get that big turnout we want, I think making plans to accomodate the money and childcare concerns of single women are crucial. After all, why aren’t all these progressive women at the polls? It’s not because we don’t know better. It’s because we literally and materially can’t get there. Barefoot and pregnant isn’t just Dominionist ideology. It is a time tested highly successful method for preventing this leviatian progessive voting bloc from making it’s power felt.

It’s the kids and the poverty people. Help women overcome those obstacles long enough to get us to the polls, and you’ve got your numbers.

]]> By: mrobinsong http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169463 mrobinsong Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:10:06 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169463 <p>Howard Dean says that when corruption is the issue, run women candidates. Women shouldn’t be bashful about running as women. We want parity! We want more women in the Senate and the House! No more amendments to the Constitution until the Equal Rights amendment passes, and a right to vote passes.</p> Howard Dean says that when corruption is the issue, run women candidates. Women shouldn’t be bashful about running as women. We want parity! We want more women in the Senate and the House! No more amendments to the Constitution until the Equal Rights amendment passes, and a right to vote passes.

]]> By: op99 http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169456 op99 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:59:58 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/01/fdl-late-nite-single-women/#comment-169456 <p>LG, I used to read Drum every day, now I never do, I guess there were too many choices out there more relevant to me. Whereas, Josh Marshall, who often gets lumped in the same category as Drum, I read every day, especially since he started the invaluable Muckraker (which I guess, strictly speaking, is not even him).</p> LG, I used to read Drum every day, now I never do, I guess there were too many choices out there more relevant to me. Whereas, Josh Marshall, who often gets lumped in the same category as Drum, I read every day, especially since he started the invaluable Muckraker (which I guess, strictly speaking, is not even him).

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