{"id":3342,"date":"2012-11-20T05:52:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T05:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2012-11-20T05:52:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T05:52:42","slug":"whiter-and-more-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3342","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Whiter and more male&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/whitemale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3343\" title=\"whitemale\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/whitemale-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/whitemale-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/whitemale-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/whitemale-148x148.jpg 148w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/whitemale-31x31.jpg 31w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/whitemale-38x38.jpg 38w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/whitemale-215x215.jpg 215w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/whitemale.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said the Republican Party \u201cgot whiter and more male\u201d while the Democratic caucus is \u201cmajority minority and female.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTake a good look when the House convenes after this next Congress is sworn in at what our side of the aisle looks like versus what the Republican side looks like. I mean they got whiter and more male, and we now have a majority minority and female Democratic caucus \u2013 first time in history,\u201d Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said Wednesday at a discussion hosted by the Emily\u2019s List, a group known for supporting pro-abortion female candidates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said when women run for office, \u201cDemocrats win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe have to double down in 2014. We\u2019ve got to make sure we recruit more women for office, because It\u2019s not just a slogan that when women run, women win. They do, and when women run, Democrats win,\u201d Wasserman-Schultz said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new Congress will consist of 20 women senators and 81 congresswomen \u2013 an accomplishment she credited to the efforts of the Emily\u2019s List.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere is no longer an all-male state legislature anywhere in the country,\u201d she said, adding that \u201c40 percent of the U.S. population now has at least one woman senator.\u201d CNSNews.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said the Republican Party \u201cgot whiter and more male\u201d while the Democratic caucus is \u201cmajority minority and female.\u201d \u201cTake a good look when the House convenes after this next Congress is sworn in at what our side of the aisle looks like versus what the Republican side looks like. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3342\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Whiter and more male&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,123],"tags":[2177,2178,2176,2179,1326,14,745,2180,747],"class_list":["post-3342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","category-world","tag-debbie-wasserman-schultz","tag-democratic-caucus","tag-democrats","tag-emilys-list","tag-minorities","tag-republican-party","tag-usa","tag-woman-senator","tag-women"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/whitemale.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}