When we think of the women who ran for president in modern times, many of them were formidable candidates with great ideas, and had they lived in a different time, we may have elected them.

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Yes, our elected officials must lead and we must hold them accountable if they don't.

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So on February 17, we mailed and faxed a letter to each of the seven elected officials, alerting them to the invitation using their names, and asking them if they would remove their names as invitees.

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"We have a large number of Labour MPs who represent rural areas and 99% of them have been re-elected, " she said.

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And we have a little faith in the capacity of our elected leaders in Congress to hear what the American people are telling them, hear what their colleagues are telling them, and hopefully create majorities within both houses to do the right thing.

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