Regional meeting notices: Richmond, NOVA
The Richmond Farm Team Regional Meeting will be held Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 10am at the home of Del. Jennifer McClellan. RSVP to Julie Copeland.
The NOVA Farm Team Regional meeting will be held Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 1:30pm at the Broadway, 502 West Broad Street (entrance on Lee Street) in Falls Church. RSVP to Leslie Byrne.
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Read moreMore pictures from statewide meeting
Here are a couple more photos from the last statewide meeting. Our host, Lynda Robb, our speaker, Ann Lewis, and our fearless leader, Mary Sue Terry.
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Read moreStatewide Farm Team Meeting
The statewide Farm Team meeting last Sunday in McLean drew well over a hundred women from all corners of the state. Among those in attendance were elected officials, former elected officials, candidates, former candidates, future candidates, campaign managers, consultants and activists all united in a single purpose: to seek out, encourage, motivate, engage, enable, educate, and ultimately in any way possible help Democratic Women of legal age who have the desire, commitment and qualifications to be successful in the political office they seek.
A couple of pictures from the event.
All in all, a wonderful time. A big thanks to our hosts, Lynda and Chuck Robb.
Our next statewide meeting is being planned for January in Richmond. To stay informed of what’s happening with The Farm Team, click on the “Subscribe to the Farm Team by email” link in our sidebar. This will enable you to receive a once-daily email of the postings on our site, which is where we will be posting all of our announcements.
Read moreFormer AG wants women in politics from the ground up
The Roanoke Times & World News | File 1985 Mary Sue Terry was the first woman to win a statewide office in Virginia.
So says an article from The Roanoke Times:
Clinton and Palin didn’t break entirely new ground — the first female major-party presidential candidate ran in 1964 and the Democrats nominated a female for vice president in 1984 — but their prominent roles in the election served to galvanize women around the country.
And that includes a re-emergence of former Virginia attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Mary Sue Terry — whose election to statewide office put a substantial crack in the proverbial glass ceiling 23 years ago. She is building on momentum from this year’s election to assemble a group to recruit, encourage and raise money for female Democrats around the state.
Read the rest of the article here.
Read moreWon't you join me?
Dear Friends:
My father taught agriculture and when I was four he coached a young man who won the national public speaking contest sponsored by the Future Farmers of America. While my memories are vague I’m told that I was a constant presence at all the coaching sessions (another form of babysitting, I suppose) and in short order had heard the speech so many times that I had memorized whole passages of it and could be found reciting them during the course of a day.
Today I only remember the first line of the speech which I find apropos to this letter. It was a question: “Future Farmers why are we here?”
No doubt there will be as many answers to that question within the context of The Farm Team as there are women who will respond to the call. I can only give my answer.
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