Women in Politics: Campaigning for a Cause
Saturday, September 11, 2010
For many candidates political signs are a way to effectively build name recognition and show their political strength, but for one female candidate for the Rhode Island General Assembly, her signs are meant to make a difference.
Incumbent Representative Lisa Baldelli-Hunt’s sign are designed to help her campaign and to help a cause. For each sign posted, Baldelli-Hunt is personally donating $5.00 to the fight against breast cancer. She has placed a pink ribbon on each lawn sign. She represent District 49 in Woonsocket. “Breast Cancer seems to strike everyone's world, both genders, mother, sister, grandmother, friend, father, neighbor, co-worker.... you get the picture,” said Baldelli-Hunt, “I wanted to give back in a way that was out of ordinary and wanted to take the politics out of it.
Hunt’s effort to leverage her political activism for a cause is unique. “This is the first election that I have an opponent, I never posted political signs and if I were to ask folks to place a sign in their yard then I wanted to do something positive with it. My hope was that as a thank you to them I would make a donation to Breast Cancer Awareness,” said the Woonsocket mother of three.
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“Imagine if every candidate running for office throughout the state decided to do this or something that mattered, said Baldelli Hunt, who affirmed that the payments are being paid personally, not with campaign donations.
She is being challneged in the democratic primary by Stuart Gitlow on Tuesday.
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