CNN reports that Karen Handel is Georgia's first female Congressional GOP representative. What I like best about that is that no one mentioned it as a reason to vote for her, at least not that I heard. These "first such-and-so" things are a bad way to make decisions about who would be the best candidate for a given office. Still, for what it's worth, congratulations.
Georgia's first female Senator, by the way, came in 1922.
Leave it to CNN, too, to worry about gender more than about qualification. It's been a long time since the Ted Turner days.
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Then there is David Emanuel, Governor of Georgia for 8 months in 1801, whom some believe to be the first governor of the Jewish faith. Others believe him to be of Welsh ancestry. I tend towards Welsh.
ReplyDeleteBTW,the first US Senator of the Jewish faith was Judah Benjamin, also known for being Secretary of State in the Confederate government.
Yes, I know of Judah Benjamin quite well. Jews were accepted in the Old South as whites -- as I've mentioned here from time to time, there are records of Jews fighting duels in Savannah, which proves that they were accepted as true equals by the other gentlemen. That doesn't relieve the moral crime of slavery, but it is the other face of the coin: because of the need to suppress potential black slave revolts, anyone who was plausibly white did well in the South even though they might be subject to substantial prejudice in the North.
ReplyDeleteThis is cruel, but I'm still laughing my tuckus off over all those suburban white womyn who were going to change the political landscape ...by preventing a fellow woman from breaking the glass ceiling they're always fulminating about.
ReplyDeleteGender traitors, every last one :p Where's the solidarity????
I think you might be allowed a moment of cruelty on this one. :)
ReplyDeleteIt's not cruelty ma'am. It's schadenfreude.
ReplyDeleteThat, too! :)
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