{"id":894,"date":"2018-04-02T22:30:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T02:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2018-04-02T22:30:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T02:30:50","slug":"you-cant-do-that-in-politics-she-just-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"You can\u2019t do that in politics. (She just did.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephanie Ebbert GLOBE STAFF APRIL 03, 2018<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/245991542\/S1gRK0CLob_default\/index.html?videoId=5761161072001\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Caution doesn\u2019t always cut it. Running like a man often doesn\u2019t work. Fed up with the damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don\u2019t advice heaped on female political candidates, some of the many women running for office this year are doing whatever they damn well want.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"b\"><\/b>In one campaign ad, a Republican congresswoman from Arizona tells her party to \u201cgrow a pair of ovaries.\u201d Democrats running for governor in Wisconsin and Maryland have pitched their candidacies on camera while breastfeeding their babies. A Michigan Democrat says that in choosing their next attorney general, voters should consider: \u201cWho can you trust most\u00a0<i class=\"i\">not\u00a0<\/i>to show you their penis in a professional setting?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After an election that unleashed women\u2019s fury and sexual harassment scandals that spawned a thousand hashtags, women are now shattering traditional limits of gender decorum in campaign ads. No longer are they presenting themselves as tough-but-caring overachievers who are, incidentally, not men. Some of them are introducing themselves with images that are unapologetically, in-your-face female.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year we have women that are running very boldly, and they typically are in districts where they feel like campaigning boldly as a woman will grab attention during this very chaotic, very partisan political environment,\u201d said Dianne Bystrom , director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University.<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter \" data-exact-target-id=\"20233035\" data-mailing-list-name=\"Fast Forward\" data-is-amp=\"\" data-section=\"\/metro\">\n<form class=\"inline-newsletter__content\" method=\"post\">\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter__error-text\"><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">While few candidates link their campaigns directly to the #MeToo movement, many seem to be emboldened by it, sensing that in a moment when women everywhere are speaking their minds, the women running for office can, too. Some are presenting themselves in ways that, just a few years ago, a lady wouldn\u2019t have dared.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<p>In an online video, Katie Hill, a 30-year-old first-time candidate running for Congress in California, details her wrenching deliberations over whether to end an unplanned pregnancy with a supportive partner. Before she released the video, she showed it to a group of eight women who had already been elected to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were like, \u2018You can\u2019t,\u2019 \u201d Hill said in an interview. \u201cThey were nice about it. They were like, \u2018It\u2019s a really powerful story. It\u2019s just a big risk and you don\u2019t need to take it.\u2019 But I feel like I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s advisable for a woman to wield her gender as an asset this election cycle depends on factors particular to her campaign \u2014 the makeup of the district\u2019s electorate, the field, the circumstances. Longshot candidates often use attention-grabbing ads to boost name recognition despite dim hopes of victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, if you\u2019re a challenger, you have to take more risks. You have to do more attention-grabbing, You have to use things that set you apart,\u201d said Bystrom.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, feminist appeals are far more common from Democrats, she noted. But Martha McSally, a Republican House member now running for Senate in Arizona, has one of the boldest ads out there this year, telling \u201cWashington Republicans to grow a pair of ovaries,\u201d while also touting her tough qualifications and saying she \u201crefused to bow down to Sharia Law.\u201d The first female pilot to fly in combat, she sued the Air Force to change a policy requiring U.S. servicewomen in Saudi Arabia to wear traditional Muslim headscarves.<\/p>\n<p>A Trump ally, McSally is positioning herself as a renegade Republican in the race to replace Jeff Flake \u2013 and possibly determine control of the narrowly divided Senate.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"inline-media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-media__image imagetargeting\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c.o0bg.com\/rf\/image_835w\/Boston\/2011-2020\/2018\/04\/02\/BostonGlobe.com\/Metro\/Images\/10530676cd7d42ab99063627f69b3f58-10530676cd7d42ab99063627f69b3f58-0.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"U.S. Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., waves from the cockpit of a T-6 World War II airplane as she departs from a rally, Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, in Phoenix. McSally announced Friday that she is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by fellow Republican Jeff Flake. (AP Photo\/Matt York)\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"inline-media__credit\">MATT YORK\/ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-media__caption\">US Representative Martha McSally, R-Ariz., waved from the cockpit of a T-6 World War II airplane as she departed from a rally Jan. 12 in Phoenix. She is running for the US Senate seat being vacated by fellow Republican Jeff Flake.<\/div>\n<p>Since women are so underrepresented in politics \u2014 comprising less than one-fifth of Congress \u2014 they can be viewed as outsiders by a restless electorate clamoring for turnover, Bystrom noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIf you look at an overall strategy for women over the last several cycles, they are seen as agents of change,\u201d said Bystrom. \u201cThat\u2019s something they can run on, either from the left or the right.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-ad inline-ad--bordered inline-ad-3\">\n<div class=\"inline-ad__notification\"><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">She pointed to the 2014 ad that famously catapulted Iowa Republican Joni Ernst to the US Senate. The newcomer touted her three roles \u2014 as \u201cmother, soldier, conservative\u201d \u2014 and made a jarring reference to castration. (\u201cI grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm,\u201d she said, \u201cso when I get to Washington, I\u2019ll know how to cut pork.\u201d)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>By 2016, when two established female candidates faced off in the New Hampshire race for US Senate, both Republican Kelly Ayotte and Democrat Maggie Hassan advertised their roles as mothers, along with their policy stances.<\/p>\n<p>Now, female candidates are putting forth \u201cnew images of what we see as normal,\u201d and \u201cpushing boundaries,\u201d said Kelly Dittmar, assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University\u2013Camden and a scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt expands voters\u2019 notions of what we deem as appropriate and acceptable and then it also allows for women to use their gender as a value-added, as a credential, as one among many merits that they bring to officeholding,\u201d Dittmar said.<\/p>\n<p>That also holds true for LGBTQ candidates, she noted. In Massachusetts, Alexandra Chandler, a transgender woman, is running in the crowded field for the Third Congressional District with a campaign video that highlights not just her background in Naval intelligence, but also her wedding to her wife.<\/p>\n<p>But not everything works, and some approaches could be cringe-inducing, or outright alienating.<\/p>\n<p>In Illinois, Sol Flores lost a bid for Congress after running an ad set in her childhood bedroom where she was molested by someone staying with her family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll fight as hard for you in Congress as I did to protect myself,\u201d Flores said in the spot, which was timed to air the night of the Academy Awards, when performers highlighted sexual misconduct in their industry.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"inline-media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-media__image imagetargeting\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c.o0bg.com\/rf\/image_835w\/Boston\/2011-2020\/2018\/04\/02\/BostonGlobe.com\/Metro\/Images\/DanaNessel2018_03womensads_03_met.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"03womensads -- Dana Nessel for Michigan Attorney General campaign advertisement. (Dana Nessel 2018)\" \/><figcaption class=\"inline-media__info\">\n<div class=\"inline-media__credit\">DANA NESSEL 2018<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-media__caption\">Dana Nessel is running for Michigan Attorney General.<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dana Nessel\u2019s provocative ad for Michigan attorney general suggests that \u201cmen are the problem,\u201d Dittmar noted, rather than blaming the problem of sexual misconduct on broader, institutional power dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure that\u2019s the best strategy,\u201d said Dittmar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a question about how this resonates with male and female voters,\u201d Dittmar said. \u201cDoes it feel like you\u2019re attacking men?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Expect more groundbreaking videos to come.<\/p>\n<p>A Baltimore activist has created a\u00a0<a class=\"a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.votemetoo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" shape=\"rect\">Vote Me Too PAC\u00a0<\/a>to convert small-dollar donations into slick campaign ads for female candidates who champion issues like protecting women from sexual violence. Sarah Sherman, a 42-year-old mother of twins, decided she and her husband, who makes videos for a living, should put their skills to work for promising politicians.<\/p>\n<p>While fundraising and identifying candidates to support, the Vote Me Too PAC is launching edgy ads on social media. (\u201c51 percent of our population has a vagina. 81 percent of members of Congress don\u2019t have vaginas. Why is this a problem?\u201d one spot asks. \u201cBecause it leads to a culture where sexual discrimination &amp; sexual violence are tolerated.\u201d)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"inline-media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-media__image imagetargeting\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c.o0bg.com\/rf\/image_835w\/Boston\/2011-2020\/2018\/04\/02\/BostonGlobe.com\/Metro\/Images\/AmandaRenteria_03womensads_04_metcopy.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"03womensads -- Amanda Renteria for California governor campaign advertisement. (Amanda Renteria)\" \/><figcaption class=\"inline-media__info\">\n<div class=\"inline-media__credit\">AMANDA RENTERIA<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-media__caption\">A campaign ad for Amanda Renteria, who is running for governor of California.<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In California, gubernatorial candidate Amanda Renteria released a campaign video showing women in pussyhats at last year\u2019s Women\u2019s March on Washington. \u201cPeople are saying \u2018Time\u2019s up,\u2019 and \u2018Enough\u2019s enough,\u2019 \u201d she says. \u201cWe\u2019re quickly turning a corner where people are saying this stuff matters. Personal conduct matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She soon made it an issue in her fledgling campaign for governor, demanding that the male frontrunner step aside over sexual misconduct \u2014 an affair he acknowledged with an aide more than a decade earlier.<\/p>\n<p>That frontrunner, who has not stepped down, is Gavin Newsom, the lieutenant governor and a fellow Democrat whose spokesman derided Renteria\u2019s effort as a \u201cbrazen and self-serving political stunt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Renteria is okay with \u201cbrazen.\u201d (She noted in an interview that she has never been a shrinking violet and that she asked her husband to marry her on the Jumbotron at a Red Sox game.)<\/p>\n<p>She was also the national political director for Hillary Clinton\u2019s cautious-to-a-fault presidential campaign, and she is not mincing words now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow is not a time for cautiousness. Now is not a time to poll-test how you feel or whether you think other people will think you\u2019re right about this,\u201d Renteria said.<\/p>\n<p>While Renteria has been criticized as opportunistic for targeting Newsom and highlighting her own #MeToo story, she doesn\u2019t worry so much when her mentors \u2014 who see her taking on a popular fellow Democrat \u2014 question her strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re done with the days where we have to be silent, where we\u2019re putting our career or our own truth at odds with each other,\u201d said Renteria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor some folks it might be a little scary that a woman is now on the stage \u2026 and wants to talk about uncomfortable things,\u201d Renteria added. \u201cThe exact conversation we need to be having right now is the uncomfortable conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Stephanie Ebbert can be reached at\u00a0<a class=\"a\" href=\"mailto:Stephanie.Ebbert@globe.com\">Stephanie.Ebbert@globe.com<\/a>. Follow her on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"a\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/StephanieEbbert\">@StephanieEbbert<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephanie Ebbert GLOBE STAFF APRIL 03, 2018 Caution doesn\u2019t always cut it. Running like a man often doesn\u2019t work. 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