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Elect Women: Laphonza Butler
FromFuture Hindsight
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Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Mar 16, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Thursday, March 16th, 2023 Laphonza Butler is President of Emily’s List, an organization that aims to help elect pro-choice democratic women to office. We're inspired by the organization's motto to "reject apathy and the status quo. Repeat daily." We discuss how women bring the challenges and dreams of their community to the policymaking table. Running for office is perhaps the ultimate form of civic participation. Bringing more women to policy making discussions is crucial, but it takes women to be asked at least seven times before they choose to run for office. In addition, we have to pay extra attention to women as voters. We need to ask and answer the question of whether women will elect women to office. Follow Laphonza on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaphonzaB Follow Mila on Twitter: https://twitter.com/milaatmos Follow Future Hindsight on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/ Love Future Hindsight? Take our Listener Survey! http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=6tI0Zi1e78vq&ver=standard Want to support the show and get it early? https://patreon.com/futurehindsight Check out the Future Hindsight website! www.futurehindsight.com Read the transcript here: https://www.futurehindsight.com/episodes/elect-women-laphonza-butler Credits: Host: Mila Atmos Guests: Laphonza Butler Executive Producer: Mila Atmos Producers: Zack Travis and Sara Burningham
Released:
Mar 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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