High-tech effort to encourage SC women to seek office

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Women in Politics

By: News Release | CountOn2.com
Published: January 23, 2012

COLUMBIA, SC --

The Southeastern Institute for Women in Politics (the Institute), in conjunction with Blue Cross Blue Shield South Carolina (BCBSSC) and IT-oLogy, is announcing a plan geared at encouraging and educating women to run for elected office in the Palmetto State.

"This is high-tech targeting directed right at the women of South Carolina," Institute President Mary Anne Jacobs said. "The Southeastern Institute for Women in Politics is a bipartisan group. We are not about dictating election outcomes - that is the job and responsibility of South Carolina voters. What we are about is providing easy, accessible, tangible support and education to as many women as we can. When more women run for office, more women win!"

According to national statistics, South Carolina ranks last in the number of women holding elected office. But the Institute is taking advantage in this election year of what Jacobs is calling a "perfect storm."

"2012 offers a once-in-a-20-year opportunity when reapportionment has adjusted many districts and there is a presidential election to turn out more voters. This last happened in 1992 when South Carolina elected 23 women to the state legislature - the largest number of women ever elected at one time in our state," Jacobs said.

With filing for state elected office just 68 days away, there is no time to waste.

"South Carolina women who up to now have wondered if this is their time now have easy access to the fundamentals of building and sustaining a winning campaign right at their fingertips from the comfort of their own homes," Institute board member Barbara Rackes said.

For years, members of the Southeastern Institute have been traveling the state, offering day-long courses in the fundamentals of running a campaign. But thanks to the backing of BCBSSC and the technological expertise offered by Columbia's cutting edge IT-oLogy, women from every corner of South Carolina can now register on-line and receive the same kind of top quality training at a place and time of their convenience and at their own pace.

High-tech effort to encourage SC women to seek office

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