Yes it is Women's Day today (and thanks to Wulfgar who wrote a great post about it), but women still have so much work to do. The Supreme Court is down to one woman after the Alito disaster, and now South Dakota is trying to fuck everyhting up in terms of choice.

Women are still in fact second class citizens in this country, and yet we are also ignored. Women's representation in Congress is absolutley laughable. At at the state wide level it is not any better. In Gallatin County we currently do not have any women in the legislature, no women on the County Commission, and only one woman on the city commission. This has to change. That is why I am going to use this time to place my endorsements on some key races in the area, and yes they are all women!

Candidates for the Legislature:

Franke Wilmer- HD 64- Franke is one of my professors and she is absolutley fabulous.

Tracy Velazquez- HD 66- One of my mentors, I worked on her house race and helped her with a protest on Social Security Privatization. Plus she made national news with her proposal to give our parking garage money to Katrina victims stirring up a huge debate on pork issues.

J.P. Pomnichowski- HD 63- I just met J.P., but she is very intelligent, funny, and articulate. She will make a great representative.

County Commission

Lynea Seher- I am obviously biased here because she is Ryan's mom, but I still am very impressed by her. She is a political outsider, which will bring a breath of fresh air to the commission which needs to be shaken up a bit.

So there you have it, those are my endorsements on some key races around the county. Hopefully Gallatin County will soon be on the forefront on women representation.