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Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 Profile picture
@cmclymer
Nov 2, 2021 • 22 tweets • 16 min read • Read on X
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Hey folks! If you're voting today, there's a decent chance a queer woman candidate is on your ballot. Here are 20 queer women on ballots across the nation today who are endorsed by @TeamLPAC. Take a stroll through this thread and see if you're voting for one of them!

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In Atlanta, 33 year-old @LilianaforATL is running an historic bid for City Council. She's phenomenal. I wrote about her for @damemagazine four years ago: damemagazine.com/2017/11/01/wil…

Vote and donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/lpac-li…
Meanwhile, Kelly Jeanne-Lee is running for a different seat on Atlanta's City Council. She's a teacher who has campaigned on, among other things, affordable housing. Also: she's not on Twitter, so bonus points.

Vote and donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/lpac-ke…
In Boston, Liz Breadon (@liz4AB) is currently the only openly-LGBTQ person on the City Council. She's running for reelection on affordable housing, jobs, and climate resiliency, among other issues.

Vote and donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/lpac-li…
In Broomfield, Colorado, Guyleen Castriotta (@guyleen4) is currently serving as Acting Mayor following her election to the City Council in 2017. She's running to continue the job and would be the first openly-LGBTQ mayor of Broomfield.

Vote and donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/lpac-gu…
In Cleveland, Rebecca Maurer (@rebecca_maurer) is running for City Council, where she'd be the only openly-LGBTQ woman. A lawyer specializing in student loans and housing, she's campaigning on those areas, public safety, and health.

Vote and donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/lpac-re…
In Detroit, Gabriela Santiago-Romero (@gabysantiromero) is running for City Council. She's an activist and non-profit leader who is campaigning on affordable housing and environmental justice.

Vote and donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/lpac-ga…
In Knoxville, TN, Councilwoman Seema Singh (@VoteSeema) is running for re-election after four years of a strong progressive record following her successful 2017 bid. She's campaigning on violence, affordable housing, and economic dignity.

Vote and donate: seemasig.securepayments.cardpointe.com/pay
In Minneapolis, Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins (@annapoetic) continues her widely-praised tenure as the most senior openly-trans municipal elected official in the country. She's campaigning on economic justice and public safety.

Vote and donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/lpac-an…
In New York City, attorney and organizer Tiffany Cabán (@tiffany_caban), who lost a razor-thin close race for Queens DA in 2019, is now running for City Council. To put it simply, she's extraordinary. Read up on her. And then...

Vote and donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/lpac-ti…
Also in NYC, Crystal Hudson (@crystalrhudson) has been working in public service in supporting roles for many years. Now, she's bidding to become the first Black openly-LBGTQ woman elected to the City Council.

Vote and donate: nycvotes.org/campaigns/crys…
Also in NYC: poet, activist, artist, and small business owner Kristin Richardson Jordan (@Kristin4Harlem) is also bidding to become the first openly-LBGTQ Black woman elected to the City Council.

Vote and donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/lpac-kr…
Finally in NYC: attorney and community activist Lynn Schulman (@schulman2021) is running for City Council on a platform that includes expanding access to health care in Queens.

Vote and donate: nycvotes.org/campaigns/lynn…
Ashley Shade (@ashade4office) is running for City Council of North Adams, MA. She is heavily involved in local human rights advocacy and is campaigning on economic development, mental health, and diversity.

Vote and donate: paypal.com/donate/?fbclid…
Gwen Wright (@wright4rensco) recently retired from the State of New York as the Executive Director of the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. She's now running for County Executive of Rensselaer County.

Vote and donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/lpac-gw…
Carmen Rivera (@riveraforrenton) is running for City Council of Renton, WA on a platform that includes a focus on workforce development and human and social services. She has long worked as an advocate in social services.

Vote and donate: secure.anedot.com/riveraforrento…
Prof. Minita Sanghvi (@votesanghvi) teaches business in a tenured position at Skidmore College. She's running for Commissioner of Finance in Saratoga Springs, NY on a platform that is centered in economic recovery and financial stability.

Vote and donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/lpac-mi…
In Somersworth, NH, At-Large Councilmember Crystal Paradis (@crystalparadis) is running for Mayor on a platform that includes affordable housing and downtown revitalization.

Vote and donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/lpac-cr…
In Virginia, Delegate Dr. Dawn Adams (@DelDawnAdamsVA) of the 68th district, is running for her third term. She currently serves as the only practicing medical professional in the VA House of Delegates. Let's get her reelected!

Vote and donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/lpac-da…
Rhett Deitz (@Deitz4Delegate) runs a union print shop in Henry County, VA and is a longtime Democratic field organizer. She is bidding to become only the third openly-LGBTQ woman elected to the Virginia Legislature in the 14th District.

Vote and donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/lpac-rh…
Finally: Virginia Delegate Danica Roem (@pwcdanica), who is, apparently, VERY obsessed with transportation policy and making her constituents' lives in the 13th District a bit easier. She's running for a third term. Pretty damn cool lady.

Vote and donate: teamlpac.com/our-candidates…
So... as you can see, there are numerous queer woman on the ballot today who deserve our votes. Make sure you send this thread to your friends and family who live in these areas. Urge them to vote. Let's make history with @TeamLPAC! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Oh, and donate: teamlpac.com/donate

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Look, I don’t know for certain what happens next.

I don’t think any pundit or reporter or big donor knows for certain what happens next. I don’t think any senior Democratic leaders know for certain what happens next, except for one.

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Only President Biden knows what happens next because only he can decide what happens next. There was a primary. He was the victor of that primary. The decision rests with him alone on whether or not he’ll be the Democratic nominee.
It’s certainly no secret that I fully support Pres. Biden and Vice President Harris, and I still fully believe they should be reelected. I believe they can win. I believe they will win, should Pres. Biden decide to remain on the ticket.
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It was June of 2019, and I had no intention of supporting former vice president Joe Biden in the primary for the Democratic nomination. It wasn’t personal. Honestly, I wasn’t even considering him enough for it to be personal.

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Despite the former vice president having a plurality of support among Democratic primary voters in almost every national poll that year, neither I nor any of my friends and colleagues took much notice of his candidacy beyond basic acknowledgment.
The conventional wisdom in my circles—and honestly, I think most of the political circles in D.C.—was that the man endearingly called “Uncle Joe” would likely play the role of king/queenmaker, perhaps the most coveted endorsement of anyone not named Obama.
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Four years ago, I stayed at a hotel during a short work trip, and late one night, when I took a brief visit to the lobby to take advantage of their snack bar, I unexpectedly wound up in conversation with a friendly married couple at the front desk.

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I forget where they were from or how the conversation got started, but we quickly took a liking to each other.
We stood there at the front desk, the only souls in the lobby save a dedicated staff member, for at least half an hour talking about everything from where we grew up to our favorite sports teams to recent movies we’d seen.
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Alright, it’s been a long day in what’s already a long week. Time for some lighthearted, nerdy political fun. My pal @DCHomos got hold of a box of Election ‘92 trading cards and gifted me some. I kid you not. These are 32 years old. They’ve never been opened. Join me…

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It’s been three decades, so the cards are stuck together. I have to peel them away. The first card I see is for Murphy Brown, which is terribly appropriate for this election.

Here’s the story: sitcom “Murphy Brown” premiered on CBS in 1988. It starred Candace Bergen as a highly-respected journalist and news anchor. It got pretty solid ratings and quickly grew in popularity.

In the 91-92 season, Murphy Brown gets pregnant and after the baby’s father wants nothing to with the child, Brown decides to have the baby and raise him alone.

This storyline caused a HUGE stir with social conservatives, culminating with then-VP Dan Quayle giving a campaign speech in which he criticized Murphy Brown for “mocking fathers.”

You might be wondering: wait, don’t social conservatives want women to go through with their pregnancies instead of getting an abortion?

Yes, but once again, we see hypocrisy and callousness on full display within the anti-choice movement.

Anyway, the show opened their 92-93 season, six weeks before the election, with an episode called “You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato,” taking dead aim at Quayle.

You see, that previous June, Quayle had been visiting a school in New Jersey, and a young student had spelled “potato” on the chalkboard. Quayle then erroneously corrected the spelling by adding an ‘e’ at the end. On the chalkboard. On camera. During an event about education. Pretty embarrassing!

So, with the controversy over Murphy’s pregnancy already making enormous waves, the season premiere with THAT title was clearly gonna be about Quayle.

44 million viewers tuned in and watched as Bergen, as Murphy Brown, responded to Quayle by featuring diverse families in the episode, which ends with her having a truck dump a pile of potato aplenty on the Vice President’s lawn. It was nominated for an Emmy.

Bergen herself was later magnanimous and said she mostly agreed with Quayle about the importance of fathers.

But his messaging was pretty insulting toward single mothers.

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It's official: Beyoncé's eighth studio album "Cowboy Carter" has now dropped. It's the second album in her planned trilogy after 2022's "Renaissance."

For funsies, I'm gonna do a first listen review over the next several hours. 27 songs, 79:03 run time.

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Like many, I have been waiting for this album for so damn long. I grew up on country music. I love Beyoncé. The fact that she's making Texas such a huge theme for this album delights my little Texan heart to no end.

Okay, let's do this! I'll be checking-in on each track.
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She opens up with the second longest track on the album. Beautiful texture. Gorgeous instrumentation. This is definitely a powerful opening salvo. It builds up to the last third with a response to people who claim she's not country:

Look it there, look it in my hand
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Gadsden, Alabama
Got folks in Galveston, rooted in Louisiana
They used to say I spoke "too country"
And the rejection came, said I wasn't "country 'nough"
Said I wouldn't saddle up, but
If that ain't country, tell me, what is?
Plant my bare feet on solid ground for years
They don't, don't know how hard I had to fight for this
When I sing my song

Absolutely solid opening track. Gauntlet thrown down. I'm so excited for the rest of this.
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Delightful. Follow along.
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Wilson gave an in-person speech--rather than sending a report--for the first time in 1913, which was somewhat controversial! Warren Harding gave it by radio for the first time in 1922. Truman was first on television in 1947. Clinton in 1997 was the first accessible live online.
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