So sometime in the last week or two I was listening to NPR or its Wisconsin/Minnesota state affiliates. The show had on a Democratic woman legislator (though I can't recall from where) talking about women in politics. She mentioned how she decided to e-mail all the other women legislators from both sides to meet and get to know one another better in the hopes of being able to find common ground, discuss womens issues, and find areas of compromise to move legislation forward.
The first meeting or two went well and so they wanted to schedule a dinner. However, she was informed that the republicans had a mandatory meeting at the time, and asked if it could be moved back an hour to accommodate. So she changed the time of the dinner only to find the leading republican had changed the meeting time so it would again conflict.
After about 2 more time changes it became apparent what was going on. She learned after the meeting that it had been called specifically to tell the women republican legislators to stop meeting/caucusing/collaborating with the dems.
I apologize for not having a link to the show as I can't seem to be able to find that specific one at the moment. Perhaps someone else knows what I'm alluding too.
In any case i always see or hear the GOP in the media with some soundbite talking about how they want to work with democrats but those darn democrats just won't do it.
What a farce.
The first meeting or two went well and so they wanted to schedule a dinner. However, she was informed that the republicans had a mandatory meeting at the time, and asked if it could be moved back an hour to accommodate. So she changed the time of the dinner only to find the leading republican had changed the meeting time so it would again conflict.
After about 2 more time changes it became apparent what was going on. She learned after the meeting that it had been called specifically to tell the women republican legislators to stop meeting/caucusing/collaborating with the dems.
I apologize for not having a link to the show as I can't seem to be able to find that specific one at the moment. Perhaps someone else knows what I'm alluding too.
In any case i always see or hear the GOP in the media with some soundbite talking about how they want to work with democrats but those darn democrats just won't do it.
What a farce.
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