Texas Rep Wendy Davis's Vogue September Interview | San Diego Dems Advised In 2011 Of Filner's Women Problem
/1.Vogue magazine hit the ground running, delivering a major interview with Texas’s Wendy Davis, who led the filibuster against the antiabortion legislation in Texas. Featured in the blockbuster September issue, Davis forced the legislature into a special session, where the bill did pass.
The big question now is whether Wendy Davis will run for governor. There’s a lot of meat in this story by Heidi Mitchell.
2. Planned Parenthood affiliates in Iowa, Montana and New Hampshire received federal grants announced Thursday, a total of $655,000 for participating in Obamacare’s ‘navigator’ program. The purpose of the grants — awarded also to disease groups, universities and Catholic health agencies — is to educate the public about open enrollment in the upcoming insurance exchanges.
Earlier this week, the District of Columbia announced a $350,000 grant to Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. to help educate the uninsured about the health exchanges.
3. Attorney Gloria Allred introduced the latest woman to accuse San Diego Democratic Mayor Bob Filner of sexual Harassment. City-hall worker Peggy Shannon says Mayor Filner kissed her on the lips, asked her out, and several months ago “took her hand without her permission and asked her, ‘Do you think I could go eight hours straight?’
The Atlantic writes that in 2011, at least three women warned San Diego Dems that then-Rep. Bob Filner had a very bad rep for making inappropriate advances towards women.
4. The president of the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association Mark Ficken resigned after the controversy concerning the clown imitating President Barack Obama at Missouri’s State Fair.
Ficken’s resignation from the rodeo group comes as he tries to hold on to his professional job in education. The Boonville School District announced Monday that it is hiring an investigator to look into whether Ficken was involved in any “inappropriate conduct” during Saturday’s bull riding event at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia.
5. “The truth is in terms of addressing the systemic problem, in terms of addressing the culture, most of these guidelines do very little,” Rep. Jackie Speier, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, told USA Today after Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel issued new initiatives to deal with the ‘stain’ of sexual assault in the military.
NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand also says the plans don’t go far enough.”It is time for Congress to seize the opportunity, listen to the victims and create an independent, objective and non-biased military justice system worthy of our brave men and women’s service.”