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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe area that is New York has been under European & American rule for over 400 years, and only now
will finally have a female head of government.About fucking time!!!!!!
ETA I mean the direct head of the colonial, and then the state government, not the Sovereign of the Netherlands or the English, or then the POTUS (which has always been a man too, but that is another discussion).
littlemissmartypants
(22,966 posts)rockfordfile
(8,712 posts)Celerity
(43,927 posts)fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)From 1707 to 1714.
There were earlier ones as well, but she was the last.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain
Celerity
(43,927 posts)List of colonial governors of New York
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)Yes I can see that the local rulers are all men.
Can you imagine how much better New York would have turned out if a few women were in charge?
Celerity
(43,927 posts)cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)Celerity
(43,927 posts)the English, and then the Americans.
unc70
(6,138 posts)Celerity
(43,927 posts)roamer65
(36,749 posts)Celerity
(43,927 posts)Wiley was ahead of Garcia until the 2nd to last round of the ranked choice system, then was eliminated. Then Garcia barely lost to Adams, in the final tally.
roamer65
(36,749 posts)But alas, no so.
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)Yes it's great that the new governor has broken the glass ceiling. But to get there the present governor had to resign after molesting a multitude of women. That's not the way to get a woman in the governor's mansion.
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