GOTV THIS WEEKEND FOR OUR ENDORSED CANDIDATES! ELECTION DAY IS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH!!

NWPC LA Westside is proud to support NWPC LA Westside and NWPC California endorsed candidates for the statewide General election on Tuesday, November 6th. Each woman is dedicated to our bottom line issues: 

✔️Protecting women's reproductive freedom, and 

✔️Achieving gender equality throughout all levels of society.

You can help them advance by joining their Get Out The Vote efforts this weekend! With your help, when women run, women win!

For more information on NWPC California endorsed candidates across the state, visit the NWPC California website.

NWPC LA Westside Endorsements

The following candidates are endorsed by the Los Angeles Westside chapter of the National Women's Political Caucus. Each candidate sought endorsement and was vetted and approved by the Board based upon her commitment to NWPC bottomline issues and the credibility of her campaign. For more information on each candidate's campaign, please visit her website. Don't forget to vote on November 6th!

Santa Monica City Council

Pam O'Connor (incumbent)
Previously endorsed NWPC LA Westside candidate
www.pamoconnor2018.com

Sue Himmelrich (incumbent)
Previously endorsed NWPC LA Westside candidate
www.suestandsfirm.com

Ashley Powell
www.ashleypowellsantamonica.com

 Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District Board of Education

Laurie Lieberman (incumbent)
Previously endorsed NWPC LA Westside candidate
www.liebermanforschoolboard.com

Santa Monica College Board of Trustees

Louise Jaffe
Previously endorsed NWPC LA Westside candidate
www.louisejaffe.com 

Nancy Greenstein

Previously endorsed NWPC LA Westside candidate

www.nancygreenstein.com

Los Angeles Coordinating Council Endorsements

The following candidates were recommended for endorsement by the Los Angeles Coordinating Council, a collaboration of the 5 NWPC chapter across Los Angeles County: NWPC Greater Pasadena, NWPC LA Metro, NWPC LA Westside, NWPC South Bay, and NWPC San Fernando Valley.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge

Seat 4

A. Veronica Sauceda

Seat 16 (dual endorsed by LACC)

Sydne Jane Michel

Patricia Hunter

Seat 60

Holly Hancock

HERE'S HOW YOU CAN HELP OUR CANDIDATES WIN ON NOVEMBER 6TH!

LET'S BREAK THE GLASS CEILING IN EXECUTIVE OFFICE! Eleni Kounalakis is running to become California's first elected female Lt. Governor, help us break that glass ceiling!  Spread the word through her campaign's friend-to-friend outreach tool.  Spread the word through social media. GENDER FLIP FOR GENDER PARITY! Congress There are lots of opportunities to help Katie Hill, NWPC National endorsed candidate, flip Congressional District 25. You can do everything from  canvassing to phone banking from your home! Or, join Senator Kamala Harris for a rally to Get Out the Vote on Saturday, Nov. 3rd at 8:30 am. For more information, visit Katie's website.  California State Assembly and Senate  We also have the opportunity to elect five of our candidates to districts where they would unseat Republican men-let's flip those districts and put women at the helm.  Christy Smith, Assembly District 38 (Northern Los Angeles County) Phone bank daily from 1:00-8:00pm Cottie Petrie-Norris, Assembly District 74 (Orange County) Phone bank Wednesday, October 31st from 5:00-8:00 pm Phone bank Thursday, November 1st from 5:00-8:00pm Sunday Gover, Assembly District 77 (San Diego)  Phone bank Wednesday, October 31st from 5:00-8:00pm  Phone bank Thursday, November 1st from 5:00-8:00pm Melissa Hurtado, Senate District 14 (Central Valley) Phone bank Thursday, November 1st from 5:30-7:30pm Sign up to phone bank at any day or time before the election. Joy Silver, Senate District 28 (Riverside County) Phone bank Thursday, November 1st from 6:00-8:30pm  Join the Get Out The Vote rally on Monday, November 5th

ATTENTION VOTE-BY-MAIL VOTERS:   Be sure to drop your absentee ballot in the mail by  this weekend. Or, turn in your ballot at the polls on Tuesday, November 6. Don't know where to vote? Check out the Los Angeles County Registrar's website by clicking below: Where in the world do I vote?!

Don't Forget to Vote for NWPC Endorsed Candidates March 7th!

R ENDORSED CANDIDATES
NWPC LA Westside is proud to endorse the following candidates. Each woman is dedicated to supporting our bottom line issues: protecting women's reproductive freedom and achieving gender equality throughout all levels of society. 


http://myemail.constantcontact.com/GOTV-Support-Our-Endorsed-Candidates.html?soid=1102117930857

Carolyn Ramsay announces plans for Los Angeles City Council District 4 at NWPC LA Westside Fundraiser

With one day left in the race to replace longtime Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge, the battle for the 4th district seat intensifies between David Ryu and Carolyn Ramsay. If Ramsay wins, she will be the first woman to represent the seat and the second woman to serve on LA City Council. If Ryu prevails, however, he will be the first Korean American on the Council.

So who is the most qualified candidate for District 4? It was very clear at last Monday’s NWPC LA Westside event supporting Carolyn Ramsay’s campaign that she is the candidate of choice. During the event gathering, which included many local officials from the City of Los Angeles, LA County and other local cities, Ramsay laid out her three main priorities: (1) to protect and enhance neighborhoods; (2) to fix the city’s infrastructure, particularly streets and sidewalks; and (3) enact an economic development initiative to save jobs and retain the entertainment industry. On this final point, Ramsay’s ambitious plan is to attract new businesses and to incentivize the entertainment industry with tax start-ups in a 20-block area of Hollywood intended to stop business from leaving Los Angeles.

Ramsay emphasized that the combination of her drive for innovative technology, her open collaborations with businesses and local unions, her stance on addressing water conservation measures, and her preeminent experience in the community show her ability to lead the 4th district in a much more inhabitable direction.

“LA City went from the crime capital to the safest big city in America. I’ve seen this huge transformation happen in the City of Los Angeles. I want to be apart of the next wave and I want to work with everyone to make LA the safest, most livable and sustainable big city in America,” Ramsay stated Monday.

So far, Ramsay has amassed a long list of City Hall, community and media endorsements, including Mayor Eric Garcetti, LA City Councilmembers Bob Blumenfield, Paul Koretz, and Council president Herb Wesson, the Police and Firefighters union, labor union, the Sierra Club, the LA City Chamber of Commerce, the Los Angeles Times, the Daily News and the National Women’s Political Caucus.

City Council District 4 stretches from Sherman Oaks to Miracle Mile and includes parts of Hollywood and Los Feliz. Voters in these areas are encouraged to get out and vote in the Tuesday, May 19th run-off. Unfortunately, the primary election, which included fourteen (14) candidates, only had a 16% voter turnout, which was the lowest in history. NWPC LA Westside is proud to support Carolyn Ramsay for CD4 and is encouraging all members and allies to help spread the word about our endorsement and why it is important for everyone in CD4 to get out and vote.

NWPC LA Westside’s goal is to increase the number of stellar women serving in elected and appointed offices. To join our movement, become a member of the NWPC LA Westside Chapter by visiting our website to enroll and joining us in our monthly board meetings. Follow us on Twitter and facebook to stay up-to-date with coming events, elections and workshops.

Catherine J. Hood

NWPC LA Westside Board Member

Message from National President

Dear NWPC Members and Friends,

Many of our conversations for the past few months have been framed with some optimism around wins and advances with issues that we care deeply about. After the 2012 proclamation of another Year of the Woman (and some visible evidence that the title was valid when we saw the highest number of women ever elected to the US Senate, and other wins by women in several areas even beyond elected office) we have seen other signs that seem to say the time continues, that this is time for women to expand our efforts.

As NWPC has worked for more than forty-one years to help recruit, train, and elect qualified women to office, and when we began, fewer than 5% of members of Congress were women. After our 2012 Year of the Woman, as of January 2013, the percentage of women in Congress is 18.3%, according to the Center for American Women in Politics at Rutgers University. Progress, absolutely. Enough? No way.
We have seen the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act passed. That Act reinstates the rule in place prior to Ledbetter, frequently called the paycheck accrual rule, so that the 180-day time limit for filing a charge of discrimination with the EEOC begins to run anew after each discriminatory paycheck is received. Thank you for supporting fair pay and nondiscrimination.

This spring we watched the news of President Obama signing reauthorization of Violence Against Women Act (finally reauthorized, again!) and felt pride that our calls and emails and other means of support to encourage this Congressional Act passage made a difference. Thank you for your efforts.
In January we marked the 40th Anniversary celebration of Roe v. Wade, and while we rejoiced that it happened, we all also felt slightly uncomfortable because we know that it is not won forever, and that it can be taken away unless we remain on vigil. Thank you for staying vigilant, and continuing to speak up.

I have been impressed with NWPC state and local caucuses’ news lately in new projects and new efforts, in finding newer approaches to reaching more women who want to support others to run, or who choose to run for office themselves. You are reaching out in more partnerships and collaborations, and I applaud you for that. You are growing in number but also in method for reaching out, but we must redouble our efforts, because the progress we have made is definitely not enough. The goal of 50/50 by 2020 was adopted by one of our biennial conventions a few years ago, and recently at a large coalition of women’s organizations, someone remembered that slogan and said that it was such a good one, and why shouldn’t we all begin thinking of what kind of results we could see by 2020 if we coalesced our numbers and powers and made the earth move. 50/50 by 2020 is ours, but we will gladly ask others to adopt the NWPC goal, and join in the effort. So again, thank you for what you have been doing, and for what you are still doing, and for what you will continue as we move to the future. We can do this. We can get to 50/50 by 2020.


A book by Sheryl Sandberg, an executive with Facebook, wrote a book that is getting lots of visibility and buzz, Lean In. Local groups have been formed for discussion, online Lean In discussions seem to be growing, and the concept seems to be well received in many circles, although in others, Ms. Sandberg is getting plenty of criticism. One of her statements just jumps out to me. “Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry....”

This week a group of elected women here in Central Texas who meets quarterly to discuss issues important to women, and they discussed the Lean In concept. This group, established about five years ago by women Trustees of the Board of the community college that employs me, expands throughout our college service area, designated by the Texas Legislature to cover most of eight counties in this region. The total number of elected women, who are from local school district boards, county and city offices such as mayor or councilmember or commissioner, county clerk and other county elected offices, is 191. The area of External Affairs of the college provides staffing for these meetings, and my staff attends these quarterly meetings. What we heard in the discussion and interaction was very much what I have said earlier here—there are lots of areas where we can declare wins, and celebrate laws that are passed (or bad ones that we have helped prevent from passage), and there is a feeling that this is our time, a time for women to achieve and move into our own. This group also felt that while we are seeing momentum, and do feel some success, we should expand efforts, reach further, and they agreed to meet more often, so that all could provide better support for each other!

This August we will have our biennial Convention, and we need each of you to come, and to be prepared to speak up, to help as we define our next steps, and then to step up as we increase our efforts.

In sisterhood,

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