{"id":2264,"date":"2007-09-20T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/09\/democratic-strategist-to-speak-on-women-in-politics\/"},"modified":"2007-09-20T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T17:12:00","slug":"democratic-strategist-to-speak-on-women-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/09\/democratic-strategist-to-speak-on-women-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic strategist to speak on women in politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RvKqWnLjH9I\/AAAAAAAADcQ\/E31J0sA9bXQ\/s1600-h\/NMSU.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RvKqWnLjH9I\/AAAAAAAADcQ\/E31J0sA9bXQ\/s200\/NMSU.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112335832470200274\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A nationally known political strategist will be the next guest speaker in a series at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico State University<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statonhughes.com\/who_we_are\/default.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Hughes<\/a>, co-founder and president of Staton Hughes, a San Francisco-based strategic communications and political consulting firm for Democratic candidates, will speak at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in the Creative Media Institute\u2019s Digital Media Theatre in Milton Hall. Her talk, \u201cWomen in the \u201908 Elections: Perception vs. Progress,\u201d is open to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hughes has directed campaigns and advised several elected officials, including:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/pelosi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, the first woman to lead her party in Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Delaine_Eastin\" target=\"_blank\">Delaine Eastin<\/a>, the first woman to be superintendent of schools in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">California<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ron_Gonzales\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Gonzales<\/a>, the first Latino mayor of <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">San   Jose<\/st1:city>, <st1:state st=\"on\">Calif.<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/regionals\/ca\/judges\/sup_sf\/hitchens.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Donna Hitchens<\/a>, the first openly lesbian judge elected in the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hughes also has helped <a href=\"http:\/\/giffords.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gabrielle Giffords<\/a> of <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Tucson<\/st1:city>, <st1:state st=\"on\">Ariz.<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>, win a seat in Congress, served as executive director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cadem.org\/site\/c.jrLZK2PyHmF\/b.947937\/k.CC3A\/Home.htm\" target=\"_blank\">California Democratic Party<\/a> and written essays, opinion pieces, articles and book reviews on topics related to American politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The series accompanies a university course being co-taught by Lt. Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltgovernor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diane Denish<\/a> on women, politics and the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nationally known political strategist will be the next guest speaker in a series at New Mexico State University. Mary Hughes, co-founder and president of Staton Hughes, a San Francisco-based strategic communications and political consulting firm for Democratic candidates, will speak at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in the Creative Media Institute\u2019s Digital Media Theatre in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}