And now an old, rich, white woman is running for president - soooooooo whats the difference again besides the front-facing nail polish color that looks like the average woman has been clawing at someone's throat?

@1 - We get it, you hate women.

28 is a pretty young age to be in elected office imo. A decent amount of experience is valuable, not just for perspective and judgment but to build networks that are acknowledged as necessary to raise funding and political support. (Granted, in politics long experience and tenure are often part of the politics problem, not a solution...)

The author of this piece also could stand some seasoning, and an editor, both for tone and coherence. Seems a bit shallowly zealous at the end: "'I think candidates sometimes get afraid to talk about those issues,' Pollet says, and Watkins jumps in: 'Yeah, well, when all of your donors are old dudes. Like, they want talk about the [Sonics] arena. I want to be able to talk about women taking time off of work to have a family. The boys' club is really on its way out,' Watkins adds. 'And young women are poised to take that place.'"

This is good to see. Here in Washington, let's get rid of two white pigs stinking up the state senate, and blocking out positive legislature from happening (i.e.: fixing our own crumbling infrastructire, funding our schools, and protecting the environment form the gluttonous fossil fuel industry : Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, and Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane. Bill Bryant needs to get booted, too.

If the aim is to get more women elected it would seem smarter to support older women who have been participating in their communities for a longer time. They project more experience and more authority. Or is this a self-help project for someone?

I am disappointed in the Stranger. They would rescind their endorsement of a brilliant young woman of black heritage to be the first black woman in state government for a white "dude" named Chris Reydahl. Erin Jones is not a bigot but a kind and highly capable person who happens to be a black woman. Jones has my support. You can rest assured that the current top lieutenants at OSPI who are white males are salivating of the thought of Erin's opponent being elected so they can continue to hold their overpaid and bureaucratic positions.

Yes, I am voting with my vagina for pro-women women candidates like Hillary Clinton, Patty Murray, Erin Jones and Sharlaine LaClair. Sharlaine is a candidate up here just north of Bellingham, WA. Her mother is a member of the Lummi Nation and her father is of the Nooksack. She is running against tea party Republican Luanne Van Werven who would not vote for funding public schools but did vote for charter schools. She needs all our support and will be great on job creation, protecting the environment, strengthening public schools and will be fiscally responsible.

To get elected you need the support of "old white dudes" who vote. Starting your article off with that headline gets alot clicks but will it them the votes they need? Building bridges and not burning them ..
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