{"id":96073,"date":"2019-01-21T19:15:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T02:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorados-history-of-women-in-politics-marks-another-milestone-a-house-majority\/"},"modified":"2019-01-21T19:15:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T02:15:17","slug":"colorados-history-of-women-in-politics-marks-another-milestone-a-house-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorados-history-of-women-in-politics-marks-another-milestone-a-house-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado\u2019s history of women in politics marks another milestone: A house majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0d10b9e8-6ec5-4780-a20c-14839aefc604&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0d10b9e8-6ec5-4780-a20c-14839aefc604&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0d10b9e8-6ec5-4780-a20c-14839aefc604&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0d10b9e8-6ec5-4780-a20c-14839aefc604&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" alt=\"The five newly elected women, all Democrats, who helped their party regain control of the Colorado Senate, from left: Jessie Danielson holding daughter Isabelle Beth Kabza, Kerry Donovan,  Brittany Pettersen, Tammy Story and Faith Winter.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The five newly elected women, all Democrats, who helped their party regain control of the Colorado Senate, from left: Jessie Danielson holding daughter Isabelle Beth Kabza, Kerry Donovan,  Brittany Pettersen, Tammy Story and Faith Winter.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Hart Van Denburg\/CPR News<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The growing involvement of women in politics is often credited to a backlash against President Donald Trump \u2013 but the trend started much earlier here.<\/p>\n<p>In 1894, Colorado elected the nation\u2019s first female state lawmakers in three Republican women. However, these days the gender gains mostly happen on the other side of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>When Democratic Rep. Meg Froelich was sworn in to fill a vacancy left by a male colleague who moved to the Senate earlier this month, she helped cement the chamber\u2019s new female majority 34 to 31 \u2013 26 of those women are Democrats. Overall, the Democratic majority is 41 to 24.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpr.org\/news\/story\/colorado-s-history-of-women-in-politics-marks-another-milestone-a-house-majority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado Public Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>five newly elected women, all Democrats, who helped their party regain control of the Colorado Senate, from left: Jessie Danielson holding daughter Isabelle Beth Kabza, Kerry Donovan, Brittany Pettersen, Tammy Story and Faith Winter.Hart Van Denburg\/CPR News The growing involvement of women in politics is often credited to a backlash against President Donald Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[4259,265],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-96073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-newsletter-sign-up","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96073"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=96073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}