IN: Election candidates could beat record for most women on City Council, flip BLUE

[RandySF]

Fort Wayne voters face a “high stake” election this fall, the director of a local non-partisan political center says.

“The possibility of how this comes out is extraordinary as far as the representation here and the gender balance,” said Mike Wolf, acting director of Purdue Fort Wayne’s Mike Downs Center for Politics.

In Fort Wayne’s history, the greatest number of women on the City Council in the same term is two, and Democrats have not held a party majority since 1995. The council’s composition could change since the Nov. 7 election ballot includes seven women on the Democratic ticket.

And if four women are successful, it could flip the party majority to Democratic for the first time in more than 25 years.

Three women are running for at large council seats – Michelle Chambers, Stephanie Crandall and Audrey Davis. Also on the ballot are Jennifer Matthias, 1st; Melissa Rinehart, 2nd; Patti Hays, 4th; and Sharon Tucker, 6th.



https://www.journalgazette.net/elections/election-candidates-could-beat-record-for-most-women-on-city-council-flip-party-majority/article_c514f25e-5d82-11ee-8d87-3f5cd146d47d.html

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1. Republicans got what they've wanted for 50 years

Reducing women to second class citizens, prohibited from making their own health care decisions. And now that they've achieved their mean little heart's desire, they're going to find out that women don't much like their Shangri La.