Women in Elective Office 2019
In 2019, 127 women serve in the U.S. Congress; 25 women serve in the Senate and 102 women in the House. The number of women in statewide elective executive posts is 91, and the proportion of women in state legislatures is 28.9 percent…
Positive Energy Was Radiating From Winter Park Wednesday Night
With over 80 people in attendance, we had a powerful, diverse group of people at our Ruth’s List Florida event. The outcome was new ideas, new connections, and new introductions… plus we raised nearly $20,000! We are dedicated to building a progressive Florida by recruiting exemplary Democratic women and helping them win elections to key state […]
What I Have Learned
Our own Madame Chair of Ruth’s List Florida, Honorable Arthenia Joyner, with sage wisdom and advice.
From Jennifer Webb, House District 69
I lost. But only once. It took me just one election in 2016 to come back in 2018 and add to my resume the title of Winning Candidate and Leading Legislator! Ruth’s List Florida got me there.As a community-engaged research scientist, I measured the many ways that my community and families across the Tampa Bay […]
“I thought I was done with public service.”- Geraldine Thompson
The answer to racism and anti-Semitism is knowledge. Education. History. But by 2016, I had done my public service. After serving as a Florida House Representative from 2006-2012, then a senator from 2012-2016, I decided to travel with my husband to South Africa — strictly for leisure. We visited the prison where Nelson Mandela was […]
Ruth’s List Florida is COMING to a City Near YOU
Ruth’s List Endorsement Process
Presently, Ruth’s List FL is working with many women who have filed to run at all levels of office in our state. Not every women is automatically endorsed. While we do work on providing professional training with financial plans, messaging and other details of a successful campaign with all pro-choice, Democratic women, our criteria and […]
Rick Scott Calls the Democratic Party Anti-Semitic
July 18— This is appalling and unacceptable: GOP Senator Rick Scott just called the Democratic Party anti-Semitic. Scott’s comments are false and deeply offensive to Jewish Americans and our allies. And on top of this, Scott refuses to denounce Donald Trump’s racist tweets directed toward four Congresswomen of color over the weekend. Let’s be clear: […]
Three women you need to support!
Message from Sen. Arthenia Joyner
July 9— My father always told me, “to whom much is given, much is required.” And while I had to fight my way to be the first African-American woman ever to hold my Senate seat, the first black woman to practice law in Hillsborough County, and one of the few women to head the National […]