Christine Pelosi
Christine Pelosi
Christine Paule Pelosiis the daughter of Nancy Pelosi, and is an American Democratic Party political strategist from California; she is the author of Campaign Boot Camp, a guide to successful campaigning...
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America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic.
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You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.
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We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.
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Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.
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When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.
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When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.
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Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.
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The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.
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Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.
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When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.
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In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman.
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A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.
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If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.
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We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.