We are thrilled to announce a partnership with The Leadership Institute to provide a discount for their upcoming Campaign Management School!

The regular price is $250, and PolitiGal Network members will pay only $100 per person. 

The $100 rate includes full admission to the Campaign Management School, Wednesday Wakeup Club Breakfast, and the Political Voter Mail Workshop! It also includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner during the four days of our training (12 meals in total).

WHAT A STEAL!

And, to make it even better, The Leadership Institute (LI) offers free lodging in the LI dorms. These are based on a first come first serve basis, and they do still have a few openings. Attendees can check in Sunday, February 3 after 5:30pm and check out by 11am on Friday, February 8. The class is February 4-7.

From RadicalIslam.org:

At a casual café in Istanbul, a woman in her twenties sits and stares morosely at her plate, stirring her food absently with her fork. Her four-year-old son reaches out and starts to scramble across the table towards her; annoyed, she scolds him and pushes him back into his seat. Her husband, dark and swarthy, goes right on eating.

She is small, this woman, though growing plump. She wears no makeup; and on this street, the Istiklal Caddesi, where other Turkish girls sway their hips and saunter in micro-miniskirts and counterfeit Louboutins, her only form of adornment isn’t really adornment at all: A plain tan scarf splashed with dark brown and salmon-colored flowers, a hijab she wears not for fashion, but for piety.

One sees more and more of these women lately in Istanbul. They are part of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s “new religious generation,” an active force in a movement that is turning Turkey, secularized nearly 100 years ago by Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Republic further and further from the West and more towards its Islamic – even Islamist – neighbors in the Middle East.  It is a movement that can have profound consequences for the West – Turkey is, after all, a full member of NATO – as much as for the Turks themselves.

But right now, nobody is feeling it more than Turkish women.

The election is over. It's time to start planning for 2013 and 2014. So, what are you doing?

Here are some ways you can help PolitiGal Network and our nearly 14,500 members in our mission to educate women and help candidates communicate with women:

• Make sure we have your information on file, including your city and state, so that we may keep you informed of what we're doing in your local area
• Visit www.PolitiGalNetwork.com and share one or two of the blog postings with your social media network
• Join for free or as a supporting member
• Make a donation
• Become a member of our leadership team as an area/city coordinator, or a state managing director (PT positions that are partially volunteer and partially paid)
• Hold an event in your area
• Let us know how we can help you
• Like our Facebook page, or your state's Facebook page
• Follow us on Twitter, or follow your state
• Share us with your friends

Our goal is to have 20,000 members by the end of 2013. With your help, we will make this possible. Take a moment today to do something -- this is just the first step toward making a difference.

Last week, an article from the Air Force Times made much of Facebook and Twitter burst out with a collective “OH NO!!!” and “Quelle horreur!”, and it wasn’t even about reflective belts and the DFAC (the dining facility or the chow hall, for those of you who have not had the pleasure of eating there). Instead, it was about General Welsh’s direction that commanders and supervisors remove pictures, calendars and other materials objectifying women from the workspace and other public areas.

No one is asking that pictures of Enola Gay be taken down, so anyone clutching your pearls about historic nose art can calm down a little. No one is going into dorms and pulling down centerfolds (although the last time I did dorm inspections, porn on the walls was a no-no, per the First Sergeant). This is only pertaining to things in the workspace or common areas, like snack bars, squadron “heritage” rooms or day rooms in the dormitories.

We are proud to announce the new Oregon Chapter of PolitiGal Network!

The State Managing Director is Denise Quinn Nanke, and you can learn more about the chapter at www.PolitiGalNetwork.com/Oregon -- also, sign up there if you are in Oregon to officially be included in the chapter communications.

Also, we are looking for Area Coordinators throughout Oregon. If you may be interested, visit www.PolitiGalNetwork.com/leadership for more information.

We look forward to helping conservatives gain a foothold in such a blue state! 

Our Utah State Managing Director, Michelle Zook, wrote "America Deserves Better Than This" for ClashDaily.com. Take a read -- Americans certainly do deserve better than Obama's America, and it starts with us, ladies.

My father will be the first to tell you that he squeaked through high school. Upon graduation, he went to work in his dad’s business, changing tires, and kept right on doing that until he left to drive trucks. All his life, he’s been a blue collar man. Even now that he has an office job, you can tell some days that he would really rather just be out, driving a truck.

The Republican Party is not anti-woman, but they seem to do all they can to give us the perception that they are!

In this story today by Executive Director Sara Marie Brenner, the point is made that the GOP is forgetting about the gender gap by backing all male committee chairmen.

Please click here to read the column from TheBrennerBrief.com. 

We encourage you to contact your Republican Representative and/or Senator(s) to remind them of the optics, perception and messaging when they fail to include any of the well-qualified women for committee chairmanships. If we are going to bridge the gender gap, it has to start with the regular, day-to-day practices of the party.

PolitiGal Network announces the addition of two nationally known women to its Advisory Board today.

Janis Mitchell of Westerville, Ohio is the President/CEO of Precise Resource, and she has been a leader in the talent acquisition and technology industry for over 20 years. Mitchell is a serial entrepreneur who is gifted in connecting with anyone, fostering relationships and developing contacts. Her company focuses on providing talent resource management and staffing for Fortune 500 companies and rising small businesses. She started Precise Resource, Inc. after selling her cross-company Info Fortress Solutions, the world’s first organization to install single sign on SAML protocol for a Fortune 100 company.

“Janis will be a great asset to our Advisory Board,” said Sara Marie Brenner, Executive Director of PolitiGal Network. “I have known her for several years -- she is a mover and shaker. She will help us be able to connect with the right people so that PGN can be even more successful.”

Learn more about Mitchell at http://preciseresource.com/janis-mitchell.html.


Cherylyn Harley LeBon resides in Northern Virginia and is a member of Project 21 - the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives. She is currently President & CEO of KLAR Strategies, LLC, a public affairs firm. LeBon has served as a political appointee in the George W. Bush Administration, as a spokesman for the RNC, and as a Senior Counsel for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. She appears frequently on Fox News Channel and national radio shows, and is a contributor to Townhall and Politicalistas.

"Cherylyn’s experience as an advisor on women’s issue to the Romney campaign will be helpful to PolitiGal Network,” Brenner explained. “She is truly interested in helping our organization develop the right communication strategies to reach out to women, and to help candidates and office-holders connect with women in the electorate.”

Learn more about LeBon at http://www.nationalcenter.org/bios/P21Speakers_LeBon.html.

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Our Executive Director, Sara Marie Brenner, had the opportunity to meet Cathy McMorris Rodgers when she attended the 2009 RNC Women's Summit in Washington, D.C. Congresswoman McMorris-Rodgers has been in the leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, and is currently vice-chair of the Republican Conference. She is an articulate, intelligent, conservative leadership in the House, and we are thrilled to see that she is interested in this leadership role! Rep. McMorris-Rodgers is the highest ranking Republican woman in Congress.

Monday, November 12, our next training class will begin for women committed to becoming a state managing director or an area coordinator! If you are interested and have not yet applied, it's not too late.