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Perspective | Maryland voters made it official — the glass ceiling is double-paned
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Democrats didn’t even take into account a lady for governor — though almost each candidate picked one for a operating mate, citing spectacular resumes. They didn’t return Rep. Donna F. Edwards (D) to her Home seat. No Maryland lady will get a shot at making an attempt to fill Mikulski’s want for the Senate.
And with the nation’s political gazed fastened on what GOP gubernatorial candidate Kelly Schulz’s loss means for outgoing Gov. Larry Hogan’s political future, we’re left to lament the historic first that wasn’t.
Maryland is considered one of 19 states, based on the Middle for American Ladies and Politics, that haven’t had the ovaries to place a lady within the governor’s chair, and voters blew it in spectacular vogue, not solely rejecting Schulz, however elevating a Jan. 6, 2021 skeptic and acolyte of former president Donald Trump who desires to curtail abortion rights.
Oh wait. I’m forgetting the large leap that Democrats made placing Del. Brooke E. Lierman (D-Baltimore Metropolis) up for state comptroller, proper?
No offense to Lierman, a civil rights and incapacity lawyer with a stable file, however state comptroller is the Aerosoles of the political world. Not precisely attractive, influential or high-profile.
In different phrases, Maryland voters are preferring their ladies in supporting roles. Exhibit A: the lieutenant governors. All however one was feminine.
“It appears to sign that whereas ladies can have a seat on the desk they simply can’t be on the head of it,” Krishanti Vignarajah, who ran in Maryland’s final gubernatorial Democratic main 4 years in the past, instructed my colleagues Ovetta Wiggins and Erin Cox, earlier than the first.
This isn’t precisely what Shirley Chisholm meant when she stated “In the event that they don’t provide you with a seat on the desk, deliver a folding chair.”
It issues when ladies are a part of authorities. In some circumstances, they’ve produced twice as a lot laws as their male counterparts. “Moreover, in interviews, each Democratic and Republican women and men expressed the idea that ladies and minorities deliver a unique perspective to the coverage course of,” stated Georgetown College professor Michele L. Swers, in considered one of her many publications that study the position of girls in politics and authorities.
Is it too simple to say Maryland voters are treating their candidates the identical approach they deal with their beloved blue crabs? A premium for males and their massive chunks of meat, however the females — low-cost by the dozen and most well-liked within the soup?
Feminine leaders throughout the political spectrum have opined on the efficacy of girls in energy. Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher stated “In order for you one thing stated, ask a person. In order for you one thing carried out, ask a lady.”
The polar reverse of Thatcher, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addressed a unique sort of management that ladies deliver to politics. “One of many criticisms I’ve confronted through the years is that I’m not aggressive sufficient or assertive sufficient, or possibly in some way, as a result of I’m empathetic, it means I’m weak,” she stated. “I completely insurgent towards that. I refuse to imagine that you just can’t be each compassionate and robust.”
Even if you happen to don’t need to imagine that ladies make completely different sorts of leaders, there’s no query that illustration issues.
The Obama impact is how one researcher defined a measurable distinction in the best way an noticed group of Black, male highschool youngsters noticed themselves as soon as an individual who appears to be like like them turned the nation’s chief.
Obama’s “accomplishments made it attainable for them to imagine that they will additionally obtain success in life,” Aundra Simmons Vaughn wrote in her 2015 analysis paper, after interviewing college students in Georgia.
That’s what voters instructed me again in 2016, when Edwards was making an attempt to be the one Black lady within the Senate.
“When she sits there, all of us sit there,” Betsy Simon, then 76, instructed me again then, proper after she met Edwards on the Neighborhoods United annual banquet in West Baltimore on Sunday.
“She has lived her life; it’s like our lives,” Simon stated. “And she or he is aware of what we’d like.”
Understanding is a part of it. So is exhibiting, exhibiting all of America in our management, our legislatures, within the faces we current to the world as a various and dynamic nation.
What’s Maryland exhibiting, in its choice of Dan Cox, a one-term state lawmaker, over Schulz, who’s a mom, small-business proprietor and served seven years in Larry Hogan’s administration because the state’s secretary of labor and commerce?
Sally Experience, the primary American lady in area described it finest, the instance she needed younger ladies to observe: “You may’t be what you may’t see.”
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University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
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Sunshine for your Labor Day in Maryland
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Michigan State Has Several Things to Fix Before Heading to Maryland
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Michigan State’s football team emerged with a 16-10 win against Florida Atlantic, but it was far from a convincing victory. The Spartans struggled throughout the game, exhibiting a range of issues that need immediate attention if they hope to find more consistent success moving forward.
With less than a week to prepare for its next opponent, Michigan State has a critical opportunity to address these shortcomings and refine its game plan.
The win over FAU exposed several areas of concern for Michigan State, particularly on offense. The Spartans were plagued by poor execution and missed opportunities, with several drives stalling due to penalties and miscues. The offensive line, in particular, struggled to establish a rhythm, which led to limited success in both the running and passing games.
Quarterback play from Aidan Chiles was inconsistent, with errant throws and a lack of cohesion with the receiving corps contributing to the team’s inability to sustain drives and put the game away early.
Defensively, Michigan State managed to hold FAU to just 10 points, but there were still some worrying signs. Despite the Spartans having multiple interceptions and a safety, they gave up several big plays, revealing potential vulnerabilities in the secondary and raising concerns about the unit’s ability to maintain discipline and focus throughout the game. Missed tackles and lapses in coverage could prove costly against more formidable opponents, making it imperative for the coaching staff to address these issues in the coming week.
Special teams were another area where Michigan State faltered. On multiple occasions, the Spartans gave up more punt return yards than they should have because of missed tackles.
With less than a week before its next game, Michigan State has a valuable window to regroup and make the necessary adjustments. The coaching staff will need to focus on tightening up execution across all phases of the game — offense, defense and special teams. This includes refining the game plan, improving communication and instilling a greater sense of urgency and discipline among the players.
The Spartans cannot afford to let the issues that plagued them against FAU carry over into their matchup against Maryland. If they hope to be competitive as the season progresses, the team must use this time to correct course and demonstrate growth in all facets of its game.
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