Hi, everyone. Please turn off your phone. Sign up for our email letter and follow us on twitter and instagram. We have a new website and would love for you to visit. On our website you can see all of the great events we have going on like tonights event with melissa dirksen. She is hear to talk about her new book about women in the tea party and talks about our understanding of politics and women and the future of women in politics. She is a professor of Public Affairs at wacs college and chairs the Political Science and she is an expert on gender, religion and american politics and the author and coauthor of four books. Please join me in welcoming melissa to kramer books. Thank you for kramer books for having me. Thank you for coming and i see a lot of familiar faces so i am happy to see my friends and supporters. And i want to say thank you to my husband whose support and criticism was critical to the project and i want it thank him for finding a parking spot in du pont village becau
It was cofounded by two women and another man, hes no longer with the organization. At the time i did the interview, five out of the six national coordinate beers were women. And coordinators were women. And this is a group that is not a gender tea party group, this is Just Tea Party patriots, sort of a straightforward tea party organization. So my sense of talking to people in the tea party is there are lots of women leaders. In fact, they encourage more women to get involved in the tea party. And, in fact, many women that i spoke with thought that it was a far more open, hospitable place to become a leader than, say, the Republican Party. In the book i talk about a couple of women who had negative experiences trying to get involved in their local gop. They were rebuffed, they actually had sexist treatment. So theyre even willing to recognize that sex doesnt exist even among conservative outlets. So i think for them the tea party is, it allows them especially with social media to form
Afghanistan. It means half have nod not but its bang for the buck. Best money we spent in eastern afghanistan was 5,000, and how much does a drone cost . How much does a tank cost . How much does daves salary cost . 5,000 to do what . We basically provided taxi fare for all of the bus students to get in the come down from the mountains and go to host university. The only role the americans had was to make sure that the drivers dropped them off at the university, and took them back. Thats 5,000 bucks. Just trying to be wise more than smart. I think wisdom west. Coms at the end. As i gatemer gray hair i can relate to that. Time for one moreey. Sounds like the money was spent you did the best you could. You were directing us through the photographs in the book and i spend time on the photos. I was taken by this one here that shows barneys cereal bowl on display in the bush library with ai and mia badges and bracelets. A damning picture and showed the attitude. The host question comes at t
Going on. Melissa deckma n is here to talk about a good 27, women creating the Tea Party Movement and the greater significance of womens involvement in the tea party and it talks about our understanding of female Political Leadership and the future of women in the american right. It is fascinating and i am so glad she is here to share this with us. She is a professor of Public Affairs at Washington College where she also chairs the Political Science department, an expert on gender and american politics that is the coauthor of four books and we are so glad to have her with us today. Please join me in welcoming melissa deckma n to cramer books. Thank you to cramer books, i really appreciate it, thanks for coming. I am happy to see you here. I think my husband, shawn, who supports and encouragement, critical finishing the project and thank you for finding a parking space, it took us merely half an hour to do it. Before i talk about major findings in the book, talk about why i decided to w
Theyre wonderful son, cooper, kelley and kelley, pam and nicole, plaintiffs in the case more than 30, you ought to matter. Your relationships matter. Your children matter. I felt like part of we the people. [inaudible conversations] hi, everyone. Thank you so much for coming out this evening. Before he gets started, a few housekeeping notes. If you could take the time now to silence or cell phones, that would be great. You dont have to turn it off. You can follow kramer books on facebook and twitter and its agreement signed for email newsletter if you havent already. A newly redesigned website kramer. Com. We would love for you to visit. You can see all the great events without going on. Melissa is here to talk about her new book, tea party by men which explores the women creating and reading the Tea Party Movement and the greater significance of womens involvement in the tea party and talks about our understanding of female Political Leadership in the future of women in the american r