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Women Who Throw: Congressional Women’s Softball Game
This post was submitted by Jamie Bence, one of WCF’s Summer 2009 Fellows.
I think I may have just been witness to a milestone in the battle for gender parity: There are now enough women in the U.S. House and Senate to fill a softball team. Moreover, they can play a team made up entirely of female staff members from the DNC and RNC!
Last night, I attended the first annual Congressional Women’s Softball Game. Held in DC’s lovely Georgetown neighborhood, the game featured members and staff from the DNC and RNC- facing off in a (truly competitive) game. It was an exciting night, and it all raised money for a great cause.
A few WCF-endorsed candidates showed off their athletic skills. Kirsten Gillibrand proved to have an excellent pitching arm. Florida’s Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz was a captain of the members’ team, but played a little too hard- fracturing her leg while sliding into second base (but nonetheless returned to work bright and early this morning)! Speaker Pelosi stayed in the stands, but Senator Susan Collins, Representative Shelley Berkley and Grace Napolitano were in uniform for the event.
The game raised more than $41 thousand for Young Survival Coalition (YSC) which educates and supports young women living with breast cancer. Though the spirit of bipartisanship ran deep for this worthy cause, the game, of course, had winners and losers. In the end, the staffers won, 14-8.
