You make an excellent point. This phenomenon is pervasive. On job qualifications: women assume they have to meet all of them to apply and men think if they’re close, they’re golden—and this is because of the differing standards they must meet.
Couldn’t Mills take a cue from the polls and take more progressive positions? She’s earned trust and Platner hasn’t-and he’s doing nothing to earn it. He just seems like another Fetterman.
I also think of Talarico v Crockett. A senate run is the next step in a career in which she’s put in the time. Talarico is trying to leap from the state lege (a part time job) into the US Senate. He has more experience than Platner, but he’s still green, which was apparent in his Colbert interview.
Point taken, but some context: the TX lege meets 140 days every two years (excluding special sessions). So it’s 4 part time years not 8, and the total days of reg sessions works out to just over 2 years full time. But hours clocked isn’t as important as the experience in communicating on a larger stage, which he’s learning as he campaigns.
You make an excellent point. This phenomenon is pervasive. On job qualifications: women assume they have to meet all of them to apply and men think if they’re close, they’re golden—and this is because of the differing standards they must meet.
Couldn’t Mills take a cue from the polls and take more progressive positions? She’s earned trust and Platner hasn’t-and he’s doing nothing to earn it. He just seems like another Fetterman.
I also think of Talarico v Crockett. A senate run is the next step in a career in which she’s put in the time. Talarico is trying to leap from the state lege (a part time job) into the US Senate. He has more experience than Platner, but he’s still green, which was apparent in his Colbert interview.
Talarico’s been in the texas legislature for 8 years…idk. I think that gives him conventional qualifications for a senate run….
Point taken, but some context: the TX lege meets 140 days every two years (excluding special sessions). So it’s 4 part time years not 8, and the total days of reg sessions works out to just over 2 years full time. But hours clocked isn’t as important as the experience in communicating on a larger stage, which he’s learning as he campaigns.
An excellent piece.