she lost to peter king narrowly. and one of the things she did was actually petition the fec to allow babysitting fees to be, you know, something that candidates can use their campaign candidates can use their campaign funds to reimburse. before 2018 it was not possible for parents to have these fees reimbursed. and that is massive. that is a huge deal because we have a lot of fathers who are running, a lot of fathers in congress. we have some mothers, but not a lot of mothers of small children. that s why you end up with so many women that only can run later in life. it takes them longer to get there and then they re out of politics. this has changed the landscape for all women really. i want to put up some graphics here because in addition to the record setting number of women who ran and the record setting number of women who run, there s also individual women who have done something
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