I’d want to tell you a few personal details about myself that you might not be aware of but that we might have in common. We have the ability to influence our daughters’ future election results as American women.
I grew up in a bipartisan family. My mother worked for the Democratic attorney general, while my father was a member of the cabinet of Republican Governor George Romney (yep, Mitt’s father). My siblings and I were encouraged to voice our thoughts and differ without becoming combative at the dinner table. In the Michigan Legislature, where I was always in the minority, that ability was really helpful to me.
In college, I experienced sexual assault, something you might not be aware of. I kept my mouth shut about it for a while. “We are all like a lump of clay,” someone told me years later. It turns into a cup once it is hollowed out. What remains after something is taken away from you may serve a purpose.
