This will be a short one but Cosmopolitan Magazine gave a ringing endorsement for Alison Lundergan Grimes' (D. KY) U.S. Senate campaign:
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/...
A fearless pro-choice challenger to one of the most ruthless and powerful Republicans in the Senate, Alison Lundergan Grimes is a bit of bright feminist hope in a largely red state — and although she's facing a tough race, she might just have a chance if Kentucky women turn out for her.
Grimes, the state's 35-year-old Secretary of State (the youngest in the nation), is running against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a career politician more than twice her age. She supports raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, a position that would be enormously helpful to her potential constituents in one of the poorest states in the country, where nearly a fifth of the population lives below the poverty line. More than a quarter of Kentucky's children live in poverty, and 7 in 10 minimum wage workers in the state are women. If the minimum wage were raised, a whopping 255,000 Kentucky women would see their pay increase.
McConnell voted against raising the minimum wage and against legislation that would have helped to ensure women are paid the same as men for doing the same work.
In addition to standing up for Kentucky women's financial security, Grimes also stands up for their right to make their own decisions about their bodies.
"I come from a family of five women," Grimes told the National Journal. "I would never pretend to tell one of my sisters what to do with their body and I don't want the federal government doing that either. … When it comes to choice, I believe, should a woman have to make that decision, it's between herself, her doctor, and her God." - Cosmopolitan Magazine, 9/9/14
Well said. Click here to donate and get involved with Grimes' campaign:
http://alisonforkentucky.com/