A need for women candidates at the local level

The LA Daily News has joined the growing chorus of concerns regarding the falling number of women in State office. The editorial published yesterday, "More Women Needed in Office," rightly notes that a primary hurdle to populating the State Legislative offices with women is the "shortage of women officeholders on...the local level." This editorial comes on the heels of a Sacramento Bee front page story raising the alarm on the decreasing number of women we are likely to see in the Capitol at the conclusion of the 2012 election year as term limits “are expected to cause the number of women elected to state office to drop for the third consecutive cycle.”

This is precisely why the Fem Dems of Sacramento PAC is hosting a candidate training Boot Camp for women running for, or interested in running for, local offices. A farm team is crucial to moving women up the pipeline to higher office. In order to see more women in office, we need more women to put their names on the ballot.

It is not too late to be a candidate in the June 5th, 2012 primary.  Potential candidates should consider attending the Fem Dems Candidate Training Boot Camp on Saturday, March 3.  California’s foremost political professionals will headline a series of panel discussions and workshops on fundraising, finance, election finance law, messaging and grassroots organizing.

Information may be obtained at www.femdems.org or by emailing info@femdems.org.