....Unless former state Sen. Karen Gillmor decides to run next year, Senate Republicans have no female candidates lined up to join the team in 2009, meaning that for the second time in 24 years the caucus could be all-male and all-white....
......Only five of 53 GOP House members are female....
.....11 of 46 House Democrats are women, including Minority Leader Joyce Beatty of Columbus.....
.....today, four of 12 Senate Democrats are women, and the caucus has had a female leader for nearly three years...
....Senate President Bill M. Harris, R-Ashland, insists his lack of "ladies" is not for a lack of effort. "We've just not been successful in doing that. It's not been intentional."
In addition to traditional family obligations that keep women from running, Harris blames term limits, saying that women in politics want more long-term, stable careers.....
Harris sounds a little sexist, doesn't he? Has he talked to many women interested in politics? I doubt it.
It is possible that Ohio women are just not interested in the Ohio GOP's right wing agenda and the GOP's lack of effort in solving school funding. Ohio women who enter politics tend to be more at home at the all inclusive, multi-cultural, Democratic Party.
