Why I’m Voting for Hillary

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

I have worked in politics and political campaigns for over 15 years but have never found myself more personally invested in a candidacy than that of Hillary Clinton for President. Of course, I have a list of very logical reasons for supporting her in this race. But I have realized over this last year, that there is something far more personal, inspirational and aspirational for me in Hillary Clinton’s candidacy than I have experienced in the many campaigns with which I have been involved. I was born in 1964, the third and late child of a career Air Force Colonel. My political education began not many years later during the turbulent years of the late 60’s and early 70’s. We were still living at Beale AFB in northern California when my brother was protesting the Vietnam War, and my sister, according to my bewildered and furious father, was "burning her bra" at college. I don’t know if that’s true, but I do remember the day she was sent home from her summer job at the bank for apparently not wearing one.My parents poured cocktails while we watched Walter Cronkite report on the Vietnam War and something called "women’s liberation" marches. Life Magazine came to the house each week, and it had articles about "consciousness-raising" meetings that women were having at their neighbors’ houses, which apparently were causing wives to divorce their husbands. And Gloria Steinem was a name that had somehow seeped into my 6-year-old consciousness along with her enormously round tinted glasses.There's more...