
Diversity of the Top of the Ticket Should Concern Democrats
By Garry SouthMarch 15, 2010
This year, the party of (overwhelmingly white) elephants may just put up their most diverse statewide ticket ever. California GOP voters appeared poised to anoint their first-ever female candidate for governor, Meg Whitman – and perhaps their first-ever woman U.S. Senate nominee, too. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed state Sen. Abel Maldonado as lieutenant…