Some of my co-bloggers here might roll their eyes if I’d indicated in that title that it continues to appear to be true that I’m in fact the only female political blogger who has run for and won elected office (Pepper Pike City Council) just because I emphasize the where are the women thing a lot. I get it, promise. But the truth is, hardly any political bloggers of either gender run for office.

We can fix that! On August 5th, I’m making the “Call to Action” at a joint workshop being put on by two non-partisan organizations, BlogHer and The White House Project. While the former knows a lot about blogging, the latter has been getting women elected or supporting women to get elected for more than 10 years. If you or someone you know is interested, please pass this on. You can read here as to why on earth they’d pick me to inspire others to run for office or amp up their advocacy skills.

And seriously, I do think it’s a shame that with all the political bloggers out there judging politicians and policies, pretty much a statistical amount of them equal to zero have ever run for office. We can do better than that.