This week marks the 175th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention—where suffragists and abolitionists convened to ignite the movement for women’s political and social equality.
Whitmer’s Democratic majority has allocated more than a billion dollars to support the auto industry’s green transition; quintupled a tax credit for poor families; repealed a law that made Michigan a right-to-work state; and enacted new protections for L.G.B.T.Q. people. After a forty-three-year-old local man went on a shooting spree at Michigan State University, in February, killing three students, some modest, if hard-won, gun-control measures were put in place.
Whitmer, for her part, embraces the fact that her administration has close working relationships with corporations. When I last spoke to Whitmer, just after the Fourth of July, she was, in a sense, at the height of her political influence: reporters had been coming to Michigan all spring to ask whether she’d run for President.
But she also seemed attuned to the political uncertainties of the Biden era, and to how much the Party still needed to accomplish and how brief the moment might be in which to do it. “You know, what happens in these next few years is going to determine not just what the Michigan economy looks like but what American democracy looks like, what the average person in this country’s rights are, what our confidence is in our institutions,” she said.
“Things are moving so fast right now. And, when you’re moving fast, you can make a lot of progress or you can do a lot of damage.”This week I was invited to a screening of the new Barbie movie at the Motion Picture Association in Washington, DC. I never had a Barbie as a child and never bought them for my children , but seeing the movie was an amazing experience! I laughed, I cried, I dreamed of a better world.
With Charlotte Clymer, RW board member and Running Start CEO Susannah Wellford, Emily Lenzner and Alyse NelsonWith my daughter Anna RichieThe middle of summer is here, and D.C. has the weather to prove it! One of the best ways to cool down is a refreshing soda.
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