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Sonia Sotomayor Quits All-Female Club
So this is an interesting development that needs to be noted in Woman Up: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor realized that belonging to a women-only club is a political liability, no matter what her reasons for joining in the first place. So on Friday, 6:58 p.m. Eastern time, the White House e-mail landed in my BlackBerry with the news that Sotomayor quit the women-only Belizean Grove club.
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"I am writing to inform you that I have resigned from the Belizean Grove, effective today. I believe that the Belizean Grove does not practice invidious discrimination and my membership did not violate the Judicial Code of Ethics, but I do not want questions about this to distract anyone from my qualifications and record," Sotomayor wrote in a one paragraph letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican.
The Belizean Grove was created as a female counter to the all-male Bohemian Club in California.
The mission statement of the Belizean Grove Club, headquartered in New York, says it is
The resignation deprives Republicans from some fodder. And the resignation won't end talk show chatter, but will deny some senator the excuse of not voting for Sotomayor on the grounds she belongs to an exclusionary club. Men in public life wanting to advance almost always get in trouble for belonging to all-male clubs and are often pressured to quit.
She made the right political call.
Check out Woman Upper Janet Battalle's analysis of the Sotomayor record.
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"I am writing to inform you that I have resigned from the Belizean Grove, effective today. I believe that the Belizean Grove does not practice invidious discrimination and my membership did not violate the Judicial Code of Ethics, but I do not want questions about this to distract anyone from my qualifications and record," Sotomayor wrote in a one paragraph letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican.
The Belizean Grove was created as a female counter to the all-male Bohemian Club in California.
The mission statement of the Belizean Grove Club, headquartered in New York, says it is
"a constellation of influential women who are key decision makers in the profit, non-profit and social sectors; who build long term mutually beneficial relationships in order to both take charge of their own destinies and help others to do the same."
The resignation deprives Republicans from some fodder. And the resignation won't end talk show chatter, but will deny some senator the excuse of not voting for Sotomayor on the grounds she belongs to an exclusionary club. Men in public life wanting to advance almost always get in trouble for belonging to all-male clubs and are often pressured to quit.
She made the right political call.
Check out Woman Upper Janet Battalle's analysis of the Sotomayor record.
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kathy
4:42AM Jun 20th 2009
Yes Sotomayer did make the right decision, if being in that club was going to be detrimental to her chances to the Supreme Court, she was right.
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zend08
6:50AM Jun 20th 2009
Not a bid deal either way.
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(-2) mont9500
10:19AM Jun 20th 2009
If it had been one of those "old white guys" in an all male club he would have been drawn and quartered by now.
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(1) whereisvic
4:21PM Jun 20th 2009
LOL...Hardly, Scalia was a member of the Knights of Columbus...white catholic guys.
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(0) what in the worl
1:03PM Jun 20th 2009
BELIZIAN GROVE---SECRET CODE WORDS FOR BIG VAGINA AP NEWSS...........
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(0) emesb
1:15PM Jun 20th 2009
Yeah right, leaving that organization 10 minutes before she becomes the next Supreme Court Justice will change the way she thinks. Isn't it a little late for that. Do they think we are all morons. That would be like a member of the Klan leaving like that and saying that they have changed I bet all you bleeding hearts would believe it right.
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(5) slowhanddean
7:30PM Jun 20th 2009
Robert Byrd is the oldest person in the senate and he used to be a Klan leader.btw he's a dem.
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(6) David S.
1:50PM Jun 20th 2009
It doesn't sound like some radical feminist group, and even if it was, who cares? Political correctness run amok.....or at least isn't that was the right always says? Except when that "political correctness" serves their purposes, of course.
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(-2) STFUYDAN
2:04PM Jun 20th 2009
The revolution will begin soon.
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(6) ila.blake
4:04PM Jun 20th 2009
what a ridiculous necessity for the judge to resign.The United States Senate was for years an exclusive mens club and they were elected by the people.I do not see any women on major league ball teams,hockey,football,basketball et. The glass ceiling still exits in many Fortune 500 companies.
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(-1) ettu
3:57PM Jun 20th 2009
Now, if only she would withdraw from her nomination for the Supreme Court we would all breathe easier. I am a female, would love another woman on the Court, but this woman has shown herself to be racist, and her judgement is highly questionable.
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(2) moderate
6:12PM Jun 20th 2009
You should not be talking about judgements. You have told a woman with depression she needs to buck up, people get sad sometimes. you do not have insurance and you chastize people wjo do, "you are over insured and do not know your body". You have proclaimed MRI's and mammograms as overpriced unneeded medical tests. careful, your written words will always come back to haunt you.
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(-4) Janeyre
11:33AM Jun 21st 2009
Oh please, her remarks, make sense... Do you really think, any of those sitting now, have the experience of a typical American? White males are immune to reality, as it takes place for non-White people. Clarence Thomas, doesn't count, as he is nothing but a token. Not a real challenger of human rights, like Thurgood Marshall... She is more qualified than all of them sitting. She will be seated, and should do just fine... About time...
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(-4) ettu
4:02PM Jun 20th 2009
Off subject, but what is with the "Obama Report Card" on this site.........three D's and one C and they give him an overall rating of C? Wish I had gone to their school...would have been a straight A student.
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(1) Stella
8:23AM Jun 23rd 2009
People give him a separate grade for overall, so it is not the average of the other four. That's when people respond with something like, "Gee, he is a horrible president, but he's just so darn cute!" For the same reason, his approval ratings are much higher than his actual performance ratings as president.
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(1) bob
5:53PM Jun 20th 2009
The left has managed to scare itself into an overly heightened state of political correctness.
Very entertaining.
Very entertaining.
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(0) mesaman
11:08PM Jun 20th 2009
Hey Bob; I like your comment. Very apropos and cleverly sarcastic. You don't think its over their head do you?
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(1) Robertalynn
6:01PM Jun 20th 2009
Her leaving can't be much of a loss ... she looks more dyke than female anyway.
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(0) moderate
6:15PM Jun 20th 2009
And that statements adds to the discussion how? Besides showing a lack of intelligence it also highlights a very narrow and bigoted mind.
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(2) DD8V92
10:14PM Jun 22nd 2009
All that carpet must have been a distraction. Kind of like a buffet.
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