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January 27, 2019

"I'm a woman vote for me."

As if women have had the upper hand or as if women currently have the upper hand. Bernie's comments are sexist and tone deaf. Women have to work 4 times harder than men to climb the ladder and are NEVER forgiven for mistakes. Men enjoy being able to make serious mistakes and still continue. The notion that women have an upper hand just being a woman is not based on fact. It's insulting, tone deaf and sexist.

January 15, 2019

I'm torn between Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg.

He has a great resume. check this out.

. A regular human being might not be looking quite so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed under the circumstances. But “normal” and “regular” are not adjectives that apply to the son of a Maltese immigrant father and an Army brat mom who grew up in decaying South Bend, got himself into Harvard, summer-interned for Ted Kennedy, worked for John Kerry’s presidential campaign, won a Rhodes Scholarship, learned Arabic in Tunisia, landed a jet-setting consultant’s job, left it to return to his beat-up hometown and become the youngest mayor of a midsize U.S. city, transformed that city into a national model of renewal, and then — deep breath — volunteered for active duty in Afghanistan while serving as mayor, came out as gay in the local newspaper, married a schoolteacher live on YouTube, turned heads in a dark-horse bid to lead the Democratic National Committee, and had the New York Times’s Frank Bruni gushing about him as potentially the “First Gay President”— all by age 36.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/01/14/feature/could-pete-buttigieg-become-the-first-millennial-president/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f44a0cc04422

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