Puppies and Politics (with Sherry Luce & Stacy Kunkel)

How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Red Wine & Blue

Parenting, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, News, Mental Health, Politics

4.7 • 892 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Extremism lost big in Pennsylvania last week, from ICE-loving sheriffs to the State Supreme Court to school boards across the commonwealth. And it didn’t happen because of pundits on cable news or DC-based strategists. It happened because regular Pennsylvanians stepped up, ran for office, and talked to their neighbors and friends about what was on the line. This week on the pod, we’re joined by Sherry Luce, our PA Program Director, and Stacy Kunkel, our PA Deputy Program Director. They shared...

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0:00.0	And while they're petting puppies, she decided, I'm running for school board.
0:05.0	And so she just jumped in while petting puppies.
0:08.0	Puppies and politics.
0:09.0	DUN.
0:10.0	Puppies and politics.
0:11.0	Our W.
0:13.0	R-UB.
0:14.0	We came to make a change.
0:18.0	Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us.
0:20.0	I'm LaFonda Cousin, a part-time yoga instructor,
0:22.7	self-care advocate, and the chief people officer here at Red Wine and Blue. I'm Katie Paris, and I'm the
0:29.0	founder of Red Wine and Blue. In a few minutes, we'll be joined by Sherry Luce and Stacey Conkel.
0:35.1	Stacey is our Pennsylvania Deputy Program program director and Sherry is our
0:39.2	Pennsylvania State Program Director. We celebrated some awesome wins in Pennsylvania last week. So I'm
0:45.7	super excited for them to tell us all about it. How are you doing, Katie? How have you been resting
0:52.0	and celebrating? We had like a lot of wins last week.
0:56.2	How's it, how's it been going? I just still feel so relieved. And I, you know, I was working really
1:03.6	hard locally on our school levy. There was really a chance we were going to face some huge
1:10.0	cuts in my children's schools.
1:13.4	And I worked really hard with members of the Red,
1:16.8	White, and Blue community and mom's dads throughout this district.
1:21.0	Grandparents, too, who don't have kids in the school district anymore,
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