Episode 96: See You on the Ballot

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever considered running for office? Do you know a friend who should? In the first of a two-part special, we're talking about building the infrastructure to encourage women to enter all sorts of races: Congress, yes, but also your city council or school board. We hear from Stephanie Schriock of EMILYs List about the 10k+ women (!) who have expressed interest in running since the 2016 election. And from Amanda Litman of Run for Something, which encourages young people to get involved in politics. Plus, Ann & Amina weigh in on their own political ambitions. Announcements: our shop is still open for pre-orders and there are tickets on sale for our live show in Philly and YES, FINALLY, we're coming to Brooklyn.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:01.6	A podcast for long distance besties everywhere.
0:04.1	I'm Amina Tussot and I'm Anne Friedman.
0:06.6	What is on the agenda today? I know you know.
0:08.5	There is only one thing on the agenda.
0:12.3	Ladies running for office.
0:14.6	Oh my gosh.
0:15.6	Why they should, why they don't do it, and really like why you should.
0:19.6	It's like just look at all the idiots in Congress.
0:21.6	You can do this.
0:22.8	And we get to talk to really awesome ladies in the CYG community
0:26.2	who are running for office.
0:27.4	Yeah, okay. So this is actually going to be a two-parter.
0:29.8	This episode is where we're going to talk about some of the issues
0:33.2	surrounding running for office.
0:34.6	If you've ever been electoral politics curious,
0:37.5	candidate curious for yourself,
0:39.3	we're going to answer some of those questions
0:40.9	and we have some amazing special guests to do that.
0:43.7	And then in a few weeks, we're going to feature
0:46.4	a few women who are running many of whom for the first time
0:50.7	or who have recently run for the first time
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