Female Voters ‘Making Their Voices Heard’ as Kansas Democrats Approach Primary

This Kansas City Star article by Bryan Lowry cites RepresentWomen's Cynthia Richie Terrell. Read an excerpt below.

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“Democratic women seem more acutely aware than normal right now about the underrepresentation in politics,” said Miller, who tied this to frustration about President Donald Trump’s policies and rhetoric about women.

Cynthia Terrell, the executive director of RepresentWomen, a Maryland-based group that works to promote greater female representation in government, agreed that women are winning primaries at a higher rate this year.

“I do think that women are feeling like there’s got to be a solution,” she said.

“I think it’s stupid to say it’s the year of the woman because that implies after 2018 we’re done, but I do think it’s fair to say it’s the year that women candidacies have become normalized and that is certainly a milestone,” said Terrell, who noted that female governors are still a rarity.

It was a point of conversation among a group of five women seated at a table at the deli Saturday. As the women listed their reasons for supporting Kelly, they pointed to her record on education and public health issues.

Read the complete article here.