At Rutgers, Attendance For A Program Helping Women Run For Office Has Surged Nearly 300 Percent

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Wed, 03/22/2017 - 9:56am

Spurred by the 2016 presidential election and subsequent, record-breaking protests against the new administration, a flood of first-time candidates across the nation—primarily women—are readying themselves to run for office “on local ballots, from school boards to town councils to state legislatures”: Emily’s List, the national organization dedicated to advancing Democratic women in politics, has been contacted by more than 10,000 women saying they were going to run for local and state office in the four months since Election Day.

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