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Led by their populist leader, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., the Democratic National Committee this month opened a new Women’s Initiative to support female candidates and women surrogate speakers for all Democrat office-seekers who rely on women voters to win. “Women’s voices are crucial for our democracy,” says Wasserman Schultz.
She has been working overtime to get women back to the voting booths and their numbers expanded in Congress. In speeches, like one before the National Democratic Institute last week, she uses scary numbers to shock women to join her cause. For example, she notes that since Congress was created in the 1700s, just 277 women have served compared to 12,000 men. “At this rate we will not reach parity in Congress for 500 years,” she says.