WaPo: “In South Carolina, what Republican men want, Republican men get. This month, primary voters ousted the only three GOP women in the state senate for bucking the party line and defeating a near-total ban on abortion…..
For their considerable troubles, the five women were honored with a JFK Profile in Courage award last year in Boston. But you know what they say about good deeds. I’m late in congratulating them and would like to correct my oversight herewith. The Republican women are state Sens. Sandy Senn of Charleston, Katrina Shealy of Lexington and Penry Gustafson of Camden. State Sen. Mia McLeod is an independent from Columbia, and Democratic state Sen. Margie Bright Matthews is from Walterboro. Thank you for your service.
Elsewhere in America, people may not see these women’s efforts as revolutionary. But in the conservative South, where churches outnumber Chick-fil-As (and that’s saying something), “uppity women” don’t last long in Republican circles. Five women in a room who aren’t arranging flowers or funerals, or serving booze to the boys, are held in suspicion, if not contempt, by some of their male counterparts.”