House GOP efforts to increase female lawmakers falling flat

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BY MELANIE ZANONA AND JULIEGRACE BRUFKE - 08/27/18 06:00 AM EDT

House Republicans had hoped an aggressive recruitment push during the “year of the woman” would help boost the number of female lawmakers in their conference next year.

But a little more than two months before election day, things haven't gone as planned.

Republicans were successful in recruiting a record-breaking number of women to run for seats across the country, an effort meant to reshape a GOP conference that now includes just 23 women out of 236 members.

However, given the political headwinds facing the GOP in this year's midterms, it appears the party will be fortunate to get voters to back even that many of its female candidates. And in a worst-case scenario, the party could end up having 10 fewer GOP women in the 116th Congress.

“2018 is the year of the woman — except on the Republican side, where the ranks of GOP women are likely to shrink,” said David Wasserman, House editor of The Cook Political Report. “It’s a fairly dire situation for Republican women in the House.”

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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/403364-house-gop-efforts-to-grow-female-lawmakers-falling-flat

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1. GOP

A party of old white men.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. To put not too fine a point on it ...

The Party of Grumpy Old Pricks

(excuse my language)

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4. True!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. republiConMEN . . . nt

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5. No surprise

Why would any woman want to be part of a party whose leader brags "Grab 'em by the pussy"?