October 16, 2024 • 16 mins
Women running for office face their own challenges, separate from a typical man's experience. This conversation with Laure Quinlivan, one of the moderators of the online forum "Women Running for Office" introduces the listener to the panel and answers questions including how does Cincinnati fare with nearly all women goverance?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This week on iHeart Sincy.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
She got a lot of pushback because she's a woman.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
As more women become involved in the political process, we
see more inclusive decisions being made and better representation for
issues that affect half the population. Well, Cincinnati is predominantly
led by women, from the head prosecutor, the chief Police,
the coroner, County Commission, and half of the City Commission. Well,
my guest today is here to talk about a free
(00:29):
forum with female candidates for office this year, both Republicans
and Democrats, and they're going to be talking about their
unique challenges, the ones that women face while running for office,
their experiences and stories. Laurie Quinlavan is one of the
moderators of the forum. It's October fourteenth. We have all
the information about how to get on the call and
why it's important now on iHeart Sincy with Sandy Collins.
(00:55):
My first guest today on iHeart Cincy is Laurie Quinlavan,
a known to Trice date from her years as an
investigative reporter at WCPO Channel nine, her years of service
as an elected member of City Council in Cincinnati. Now
on the Board of Women in Film Cincinnati, which is
partnering with Women's City Club to host a free online
(01:16):
forum featuring women in politics. It's a candid conversation with
six female candidates, some incumbents, some running for new positions,
and from both parties.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
The forum is women running for Office? Are we there yet?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
It's tomorrow night, Monday, October fourteenth, in a zoom call
at seven pm. We'll talk today about how to join
the call and share the unique experiences of being a
woman in politics. Laurie quinnlvin, Thanks for being here, Welcome
to iHeart Cincy. First, I'm going to ask you for
like an overview of the event itself, and then we
can talk more about why your organization, Women in Film
(01:51):
Cincinnati and the Women's City Club are putting this on.
So you're one of the moderators, who are the guests.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
What's the deal, Laurie, Well.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
This is a great chance to hear what it's really like.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
To be a woman in politics. There are so many
things that you learn and you can find shocking, especially
when you're a first time female candidate. I remember it
for myself when I first ran for city council in
two thousand and nine. So this is going to be
(02:25):
a candidate forum with just women, three Republicans, three Democrats,
and it's nonpartisans.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
So they're not going to be talking about why you.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Should you know, vote for me, and why I'm better
than my opponent. We're not going to let them talk
about their opponent at all. They have agreed to share
some candid conversations about their own experiences, you know, being
a woman in politics, so you know, we'll be talking
about things like gender discrimination and what they've experienced themselves.
(02:59):
A few of the things the women have told me already,
like Leslie Giz, who's a judge in Common Police Court, said,
you know, she's actually a single mother and she had
little babies basically when she ran for city council, when
I served on city council with her, and then when
she ran for judge. And you know, at her swearing
(03:20):
in she had was holding one kid with another one
hanging onto her leg and she said, I wondered, and
I still wonder today, how would a man actually be
able to juggle that. Another candidate I've spoken with who's
part of our event, her name is Karen Brownlee, and
she's running. She's a social worker and she's running for
(03:43):
the first time for Ohio representative in the twenty eighth district.
She said she was out campaigning with her husband and
they were talking to this man about her campaign and
the man said, well, who's going to cook dinner if
you're running for office?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
And he was dead serious.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So stuff like that, and it's just going to be
fun to share. It's going to be fun to hear
the stories, and I'm very interested to see if it's
changed at all. And you know, some of the people
we're going to be talking to have been in the field,
you know, been in this world political world for a
long time, like Jean Schmidt, she served in Congress, she
(04:22):
was the first woman to serve in Congress for Ohio.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
And Connie Pillach she has been.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Serving you know, as a representative a long time ago,
and now she's running for prosecutor. So it'll be interesting
to hear from them on how things have changed, if
at all, from when they first started running.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well, we have to know we've made a little bit
of progress.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
We just don't know how much until we actually ask
ask them. You know, Cincinnati is very interesting, as you know,
having served here that right now the city's pretty much
run by women in many cases. We've got the Hamilton
County Prosecutor, the Hamilton County Sheriff, the chief of police,
(05:07):
the coroner, the County Commission, and half of the city commission.
Can you say, from your time when you were serving
on council to now, do you see the benefits of
the women's input in some of these laws in the
last ten fifteen years that have moved our city forward.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I think it's always beneficial for everyone to have more
of a representative of your population serving in those leadership positions.
As a city, you know, we're more female than we
are male. I think it's like fifty one or fifty
two percent female. Now we have four women, I believe
(05:50):
serving on city Council, so they still don't have the majority.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I don't think it's ever gone over four.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
But that's almost half. That's almost half. That's not bad
when you're right about this.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Locally, the picture is brighter here in Cincinnati, in Hamilton County.
But then you look at our State House. In the
legislative seats, Ohio ranks thirty six out of fifty for
the percentage of women that are in there. So in
Ohio it's twenty eight point eight percent. So you know, statewide,
(06:23):
we're not doing so good at all. In Ohio, No
Latina has ever served in the Ohio State House. And
then we go up up and look at like United
States Senate, seventy five percent of the seats are still
held by men, so there's plenty of room to go.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
But the point is, when you're running, you have to
think about.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
A lot of things that men probably just don't have
to think about. And there's differences, like research shows that
the women candidates are more likely to be questions about
their competence or their experience. So how do you address
that skepticism or doubts about qualifications? You know, when there's
(07:06):
that gender bias, women are more reluctant to run for
office without being asked multiple times, where men will just
volunteer themselves some being asked and say they're going to
run for Senate.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So I'm interested in the women that we've got on
the panel.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
What did motivate them to take the leap and how
do we create a culture that encourages more women to run.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Politics is brutal, I mean, it really is.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You have to have a thick skin, You've got to
be willing to have your life exposed to your constituents
and the rest of the country.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
What is it that you're expecting.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Your panelists to say about how difficult that was? I mean,
have you talked to them about some of their experiences
before the call tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I've talked to a few of them, I'd say half
of them of the set about you know. At first
I asked them, do you have a story you'd be
willing to tell or have a few stories, and they said yes.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
So a couple of them shared, you know, a couple
of stories. But I don't know what they're going to say.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I'm interested because the other thing I think about is
here we have a woman running for president in a
major party.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It's not the first time.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Hillary about a decade ago was running, but she got
a lot of pushback because she's a woman. So have
things changed even in the next even in a decade
with us having women at the top of the national ticket. Clothing,
that's a big deal for women. What about your wardrobe?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And isn't it a shame that the women have to
even worry about it because nobody ever comments about what
color suit except for Obama that one time with a
tan suit.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
They don't talk.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
About what color men are wearing or what the tie
looks like. But women are always going to be scrutinized.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It seems they are your hair all things like that.
So I don't know exactly what they're going to say.
I just know this is going to be the kind
of candidate forum you never get to go.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
To, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Now, are you going to be able to take questions
from the people who are watching or is it going
to be a closed event and you'll be doing that?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Well, we're going to h yes, we will take questions
from the audience in like the second half. So this
is sponsored by two nonprofit women organizations. I represent Women
in Film Cincinnati and we are here to promote equality
and support women who are in film, video and digital
(09:43):
media in our region. The other sponsor is the Woman's
City Club and Beth Sellerberger, the president of Women's City Club,
which is also nonpartisan, is going to be there as
a co moderator. So we've got, you know, sort of
the first ten fifteen minutes planned of a couple questions
we're going to ask them all to answer, and then
(10:04):
we will take questions from the audience. You know, we're
going to ask them to write it in the chat
and we'll, you know, pick a few and have the
candidates address those. So we hope it's interactive.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Are you hoping to maybe inspire some women to actually
get into their local politics?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Is that your goal?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I mean these are the things that women or teens
or whoever may be listening they should think about. And yes,
we would love to inspire more women to run. As
you said, you know, it's pretty good here locally that
we have a good, healthy number of women running, but
there's still discrimination that occurs and we're never going to
(10:51):
get rid of it, but it's good to know what
to expect.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
So you've got six, You've got six, is that right?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Do you want me to name them?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Go ahead, and let's say just real quick who they
are and if they're running or not.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So we have Republican Leslie Gibz who's actually running as
an independent this time around, which I don't know why,
but her and Democrat Virginia Talent are both running for
common please judge in Hamilton County. I believe there are
seven spots open and only two will be elected to
(11:29):
the new spots.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Then We have Mary Hill.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
She is a Republican running for Hamilton County Clerk of Courts,
and we have Democrat Connie Pilach who is running for
Hamilton County Prosecutor. And then we have two running for
state representative. We have longtime Republican leader Gene Schmidt, who's
actually running for reelection in her district. And then we
(11:55):
have that first time candidate, Democrat, Karen Brownly, who's running
for a rep position.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
So those are the six.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
We wanted to make sure it was even, you know,
three Republicans and three Democrats. But if other candidates show
up on the zoom and want to add to the conversation,
female candidates, we'd prefer that would be great, you know.
So it's not like if there's a judge sitting out
in the audience, we're never going to call on that person,
But we really want to emphasize that it's nonpartisan.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Do you think that that we can learn from each
other from this kind of a sharing of information. Do
you think that each one of the speakers will actually
get some benefit from hearing these stories, or is it
more just kind of an interesting way to open this
world up to the average constituent.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Oh, I think they definitely will.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I mean, I remember, you know, when I was involved
in council, just sharing my experiences with like roxand Qualls,
who was my mentor, and other folks on the campaign
trail or even after I was elected. It's very interesting
to hear what others have gone through in the past.
(13:12):
One of the stories that was funny to me was,
you know, this woman she actually wasn't a politician, but
she works with a lot of politicians, and she worked
with a lot of big time donors, and one of
the big time donors used to ask her to help him,
you know, and one of the things that he eventually
(13:35):
added to her list of things to do was put
his socks on for him.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
So?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
I mean, you know, they are funny stories.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
That's a laugh a minute, Laurie. There are a lot
of good stories out there, and we're going to hear
a lot of them. This is now, how do we
sign up?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
This is coming up very quickly tomorrow night, seven o'clockday, October.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Four, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
This is going to be on a Sunday, So I'm
doing nak Yeah, So this is very coming up, very quickly.
Monday night, Tomorrow night, seven o'clock and it's a zoom call.
How do listeners sign up to get into this zoom
call and watch this candid conversation with female candidates this year?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
The easiest thing to do is go to Women in
Film's website and the events page, so that's www with
wif Cincinnati dot org events and it pops right up
and you use your phone on the QR code and
(14:42):
it takes you right to the registration. If you follow
Women in Film Cincinnati on social media, you'll also see it.
You'll also see it on my page Lori Quinlivan Facebook.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
We'll have it on Women's.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
City Club pages too, so sure you can find that
QR code. And we do ask people to register. So
we have about fifty slots left.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
We've got one hundred slots for people.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It's about half full, so there's definitely still room for
people to join.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Are you going to record this and then make it
available later or is that not on the radar?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I am going to record it, and I think it'll
be up to Women in Film Cincinnati and Women's City
Club if they want to put it on their websites.
I think it would be a great idea to do that.
We'll see if they want to do that.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Absolutely all right, Well, we'll get in contact with you
and hopefully have a great zoom call tomorrow with these
both Democrat and Republican women running for office here in
the Tri State and they're interesting positions and experiences in politics. Laurie,
thank you so much for being a part of it,
and thanks to Women in Film for sponsoring it, and
(15:54):
also Women's City Club.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Thank you, Sandy, we were really shape you getting the
word out.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
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This week on iHeart Sincy.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
She got a lot of pushback because she's a woman.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
As more women become involved in the political process, we
see more inclusive decisions being made and better representation for
issues that affect half the population. Well, Cincinnati is predominantly
led by women, from the head prosecutor, the chief Police,
the coroner, County Commission, and half of the City Commission. Well,
my guest today is here to talk about a free
(00:29):
forum with female candidates for office this year, both Republicans
and Democrats, and they're going to be talking about their
unique challenges, the ones that women face while running for office,
their experiences and stories. Laurie Quinlavan is one of the
moderators of the forum. It's October fourteenth. We have all
the information about how to get on the call and
why it's important now on iHeart Sincy with Sandy Collins.
(00:55):
My first guest today on iHeart Cincy is Laurie Quinlavan,
a known to Trice date from her years as an
investigative reporter at WCPO Channel nine, her years of service
as an elected member of City Council in Cincinnati. Now
on the Board of Women in Film Cincinnati, which is
partnering with Women's City Club to host a free online
(01:16):
forum featuring women in politics. It's a candid conversation with
six female candidates, some incumbents, some running for new positions,
and from both parties.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
The forum is women running for Office? Are we there yet?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
It's tomorrow night, Monday, October fourteenth, in a zoom call
at seven pm. We'll talk today about how to join
the call and share the unique experiences of being a
woman in politics. Laurie quinnlvin, Thanks for being here, Welcome
to iHeart Cincy. First, I'm going to ask you for
like an overview of the event itself, and then we
can talk more about why your organization, Women in Film
(01:51):
Cincinnati and the Women's City Club are putting this on.
So you're one of the moderators, who are the guests.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
What's the deal, Laurie, Well.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
This is a great chance to hear what it's really like.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
To be a woman in politics. There are so many
things that you learn and you can find shocking, especially
when you're a first time female candidate. I remember it
for myself when I first ran for city council in
two thousand and nine. So this is going to be
(02:25):
a candidate forum with just women, three Republicans, three Democrats,
and it's nonpartisans.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
So they're not going to be talking about why you.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Should you know, vote for me, and why I'm better
than my opponent. We're not going to let them talk
about their opponent at all. They have agreed to share
some candid conversations about their own experiences, you know, being
a woman in politics, so you know, we'll be talking
about things like gender discrimination and what they've experienced themselves.
(02:59):
A few of the things the women have told me already,
like Leslie Giz, who's a judge in Common Police Court, said,
you know, she's actually a single mother and she had
little babies basically when she ran for city council, when
I served on city council with her, and then when
she ran for judge. And you know, at her swearing
(03:20):
in she had was holding one kid with another one
hanging onto her leg and she said, I wondered, and
I still wonder today, how would a man actually be
able to juggle that. Another candidate I've spoken with who's
part of our event, her name is Karen Brownlee, and
she's running. She's a social worker and she's running for
(03:43):
the first time for Ohio representative in the twenty eighth district.
She said she was out campaigning with her husband and
they were talking to this man about her campaign and
the man said, well, who's going to cook dinner if
you're running for office?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
And he was dead serious.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So stuff like that, and it's just going to be
fun to share. It's going to be fun to hear
the stories, and I'm very interested to see if it's
changed at all. And you know, some of the people
we're going to be talking to have been in the field,
you know, been in this world political world for a
long time, like Jean Schmidt, she served in Congress, she
(04:22):
was the first woman to serve in Congress for Ohio.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
And Connie Pillach she has been.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Serving you know, as a representative a long time ago,
and now she's running for prosecutor. So it'll be interesting
to hear from them on how things have changed, if
at all, from when they first started running.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well, we have to know we've made a little bit
of progress.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
We just don't know how much until we actually ask
ask them. You know, Cincinnati is very interesting, as you know,
having served here that right now the city's pretty much
run by women in many cases. We've got the Hamilton
County Prosecutor, the Hamilton County Sheriff, the chief of police,
(05:07):
the coroner, the County Commission, and half of the city commission.
Can you say, from your time when you were serving
on council to now, do you see the benefits of
the women's input in some of these laws in the
last ten fifteen years that have moved our city forward.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I think it's always beneficial for everyone to have more
of a representative of your population serving in those leadership positions.
As a city, you know, we're more female than we
are male. I think it's like fifty one or fifty
two percent female. Now we have four women, I believe
(05:50):
serving on city Council, so they still don't have the majority.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I don't think it's ever gone over four.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
But that's almost half. That's almost half. That's not bad
when you're right about this.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Locally, the picture is brighter here in Cincinnati, in Hamilton County.
But then you look at our State House. In the
legislative seats, Ohio ranks thirty six out of fifty for
the percentage of women that are in there. So in
Ohio it's twenty eight point eight percent. So you know, statewide,
(06:23):
we're not doing so good at all. In Ohio, No
Latina has ever served in the Ohio State House. And
then we go up up and look at like United
States Senate, seventy five percent of the seats are still
held by men, so there's plenty of room to go.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
But the point is, when you're running, you have to
think about.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
A lot of things that men probably just don't have
to think about. And there's differences, like research shows that
the women candidates are more likely to be questions about
their competence or their experience. So how do you address
that skepticism or doubts about qualifications? You know, when there's
(07:06):
that gender bias, women are more reluctant to run for
office without being asked multiple times, where men will just
volunteer themselves some being asked and say they're going to
run for Senate.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So I'm interested in the women that we've got on
the panel.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
What did motivate them to take the leap and how
do we create a culture that encourages more women to run.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Politics is brutal, I mean, it really is.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You have to have a thick skin, You've got to
be willing to have your life exposed to your constituents
and the rest of the country.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
What is it that you're expecting.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Your panelists to say about how difficult that was? I mean,
have you talked to them about some of their experiences
before the call tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I've talked to a few of them, I'd say half
of them of the set about you know. At first
I asked them, do you have a story you'd be
willing to tell or have a few stories, and they said yes.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
So a couple of them shared, you know, a couple
of stories. But I don't know what they're going to say.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I'm interested because the other thing I think about is
here we have a woman running for president in a
major party.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It's not the first time.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Hillary about a decade ago was running, but she got
a lot of pushback because she's a woman. So have
things changed even in the next even in a decade
with us having women at the top of the national ticket. Clothing,
that's a big deal for women. What about your wardrobe?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And isn't it a shame that the women have to
even worry about it because nobody ever comments about what
color suit except for Obama that one time with a
tan suit.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
They don't talk.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
About what color men are wearing or what the tie
looks like. But women are always going to be scrutinized.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It seems they are your hair all things like that.
So I don't know exactly what they're going to say.
I just know this is going to be the kind
of candidate forum you never get to go.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
To, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Now, are you going to be able to take questions
from the people who are watching or is it going
to be a closed event and you'll be doing that?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Well, we're going to h yes, we will take questions
from the audience in like the second half. So this
is sponsored by two nonprofit women organizations. I represent Women
in Film Cincinnati and we are here to promote equality
and support women who are in film, video and digital
(09:43):
media in our region. The other sponsor is the Woman's
City Club and Beth Sellerberger, the president of Women's City Club,
which is also nonpartisan, is going to be there as
a co moderator. So we've got, you know, sort of
the first ten fifteen minutes planned of a couple questions
we're going to ask them all to answer, and then
(10:04):
we will take questions from the audience. You know, we're
going to ask them to write it in the chat
and we'll, you know, pick a few and have the
candidates address those. So we hope it's interactive.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Are you hoping to maybe inspire some women to actually
get into their local politics?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Is that your goal?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I mean these are the things that women or teens
or whoever may be listening they should think about. And yes,
we would love to inspire more women to run. As
you said, you know, it's pretty good here locally that
we have a good, healthy number of women running, but
there's still discrimination that occurs and we're never going to
(10:51):
get rid of it, but it's good to know what
to expect.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
So you've got six, You've got six, is that right?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Do you want me to name them?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Go ahead, and let's say just real quick who they
are and if they're running or not.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So we have Republican Leslie Gibz who's actually running as
an independent this time around, which I don't know why,
but her and Democrat Virginia Talent are both running for
common please judge in Hamilton County. I believe there are
seven spots open and only two will be elected to
(11:29):
the new spots.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Then We have Mary Hill.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
She is a Republican running for Hamilton County Clerk of Courts,
and we have Democrat Connie Pilach who is running for
Hamilton County Prosecutor. And then we have two running for
state representative. We have longtime Republican leader Gene Schmidt, who's
actually running for reelection in her district. And then we
(11:55):
have that first time candidate, Democrat, Karen Brownly, who's running
for a rep position.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
So those are the six.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
We wanted to make sure it was even, you know,
three Republicans and three Democrats. But if other candidates show
up on the zoom and want to add to the conversation,
female candidates, we'd prefer that would be great, you know.
So it's not like if there's a judge sitting out
in the audience, we're never going to call on that person,
But we really want to emphasize that it's nonpartisan.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Do you think that that we can learn from each
other from this kind of a sharing of information. Do
you think that each one of the speakers will actually
get some benefit from hearing these stories, or is it
more just kind of an interesting way to open this
world up to the average constituent.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Oh, I think they definitely will.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I mean, I remember, you know, when I was involved
in council, just sharing my experiences with like roxand Qualls,
who was my mentor, and other folks on the campaign
trail or even after I was elected. It's very interesting
to hear what others have gone through in the past.
(13:12):
One of the stories that was funny to me was,
you know, this woman she actually wasn't a politician, but
she works with a lot of politicians, and she worked
with a lot of big time donors, and one of
the big time donors used to ask her to help him,
you know, and one of the things that he eventually
(13:35):
added to her list of things to do was put
his socks on for him.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
So?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
I mean, you know, they are funny stories.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
That's a laugh a minute, Laurie. There are a lot
of good stories out there, and we're going to hear
a lot of them. This is now, how do we
sign up?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
This is coming up very quickly tomorrow night, seven o'clockday, October.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Four, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
This is going to be on a Sunday, So I'm
doing nak Yeah, So this is very coming up, very quickly.
Monday night, Tomorrow night, seven o'clock and it's a zoom call.
How do listeners sign up to get into this zoom
call and watch this candid conversation with female candidates this year?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
The easiest thing to do is go to Women in
Film's website and the events page, so that's www with
wif Cincinnati dot org events and it pops right up
and you use your phone on the QR code and
(14:42):
it takes you right to the registration. If you follow
Women in Film Cincinnati on social media, you'll also see it.
You'll also see it on my page Lori Quinlivan Facebook.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
We'll have it on Women's.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
City Club pages too, so sure you can find that
QR code. And we do ask people to register. So
we have about fifty slots left.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
We've got one hundred slots for people.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It's about half full, so there's definitely still room for
people to join.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Are you going to record this and then make it
available later or is that not on the radar?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I am going to record it, and I think it'll
be up to Women in Film Cincinnati and Women's City
Club if they want to put it on their websites.
I think it would be a great idea to do that.
We'll see if they want to do that.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Absolutely all right, Well, we'll get in contact with you
and hopefully have a great zoom call tomorrow with these
both Democrat and Republican women running for office here in
the Tri State and they're interesting positions and experiences in politics. Laurie,
thank you so much for being a part of it,
and thanks to Women in Film for sponsoring it, and
(15:54):
also Women's City Club.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Thank you, Sandy, we were really shape you getting the
word out.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
That's iHeart Sinsey for this week. Listen to this or
any of the previous shows. We've got a lot of
them on the iHeartRadio app. They're stored under podcasts. Just
search for iHeart Sinsey with Sandy Collins in the podcast section.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
If you've got a show.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Suggestion or a question a comment, just email me at
Iheartsinsey at iHeartMedia dot com. That's Iheartsinsey with an I
at iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I'm Sandycollins. Until next week. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Iheartsinsey is a production of iHeartMedia Centinnati
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