WCF endorses Martha Coakley for U.S. Senate
This post was submitted by WCF Fellow, Stephanie Glover.
On September 3, 2009 Martha Coakley announced her historic bid for the United States Senate. She is running to fill the seat of the late Senator Edward Kennedy and her victory will mean the first female senator from Massachusetts. Today, the Women’s Campaign Forum (WCF) enthusiastically endorses Martha Coakley’s candidacy.
Martha Coakley is an exciting candidate who will do great things for Massachusetts. As WCF President/CEO Sam Bennett said, “Martha Coakley has been a trailblazer for women in Massachusetts for twenty years. What she has achieved as Massachusetts’ first female Attorney General reaches far above and beyond the glass ceiling. She is the perfect candidate to carry the torch for civil rights and equality that Senator Kennedy fought so hard to advance and preserve.”
Attorney General Coakley has served the state of Massachusetts in a variety of capacities, as Attorney General, Middlesex District Attorney, President of Massachusetts District Attorney’s Association, and President of the Women’s Bar Association. Her twenty years of public service and potential as a influential woman in the United States Senate contributed to WCF’s endorsement. In response, Ms. Coakley said:
I am running for the U.S. Senate because I believe that the toughest issues facing women and the toughest issues facing the nation are one and the same. We need strong leadership to provide increased economic opportunity and fair wages. We need to fix our broken healthcare system, and we need to ensure that we truly have civil rights for all. The Women’s Campaign Forum has been at the forefront in bringing more women to the leadership table and I am honored to have their support.
Martha’s candidacy is historic because she would become the first female Senator from Massachusetts - but it’s made even more special because of her rich history as a champion for women.
Congratulations, Martha Coakley!
To learn more about Martha Coakley, visit her website.
Tags: Candidates, Elected Women, endorsement, wcf
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October 19th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
We have been lucky enough to have Attorney General Coakley on two of our television shows and have video of her speaking on everything from child abuse prevention to her personal path to politics to the importance of female role models in politics.
I have built a playlist with all of Attorney General Coakley’s interviews on youtube-
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C5B954D74253D4F7
so that you could hear from Martha in her own words.
best,
Kathryn Jones
Mslaw.edu