Frank Daniels. The Tennessean. April 9, 2016.
Tuesday, Women for Tennessee’s Future unveiled a concerted strategy to shift the political debate in the 2016 legislative races, introducing 23 candidates, all women and all Democrats, who are challenging 21 Republican incumbents (two are running for open seats).
Georgiana Vines. Knoxville News Sentinel. April 8, 2016.
Women for Tennessee’s Future, a political action committee dedicated to helping progressive women get elected to the state Legislature, plans to try to help Democrats get elected to Republican-held seats in Knox and other counties in 2016.
Read morePAC pushing for more Democratic women in the Legislature
J. P. Green. The Democratic Strategist. April 7, 2016.
For those interested in the races in the state legislatures of America, keep an eye on Tennessee, where an interesting down-ballot strategy is taking shape — 23 Democratic women are running for seats in the state senate and house, supported by Women for Tennessee’s Future.
Dave Boucher. The Tennessean. April 5, 2016.
Almost all of the newly announced Democratic candidates for the Tennessee General Assembly had introduced themselves by the time Pam Weston came to the microphone.
Read moreDemocratic female candidates face challenges, opportunities
Samantha Hearn. Franklin Home Page. April 5, 2016.
Two Williamson County women joined 21 others in announcing their candidacies for the Tennessee state legislature Tuesday at the Women for Tennessee’s Future (WTF) headquarters in Nashville.
Read moreWilliamson Women Announce Candidacies at Women for Tennessee’s Future Event
Joey Garrison and Dave Boucher. The Tennessean. April 4, 2016.
One candidate is a home-school mother of eight from Fayette County. There’s a former military officer, a Navy veteran and the head of a Nashville education nonprofit. They range from as young as 28 to as old as 77.
Bonnie Dow. The Tennessean. July 20, 2015.
This summer’s elections will mark a historic turnover in the composition of the Metro Council, and they offer an equally historic chance to alter the council’s overwhelmingly male makeup.
Steven Hale. Political Notebook. Nashville Scene. March 20, 2014.
WTF FTW: When Women for Tennessee’s Future — that’s WTF to you — appeared on the political scene last fall, their name and first act made their goals pretty clear.
Read moreThe Amp hits a pothole; the WTF PAC finds candidates to back; in and out in House 51
Our View. The Tennessean. November 6, 2013.
Tennessee’s population, like every other state, is just about evenly split by gender. In fact, it is slightly less so than most, with 52 percent of Tennesseans being female It amounts to a difference of about 160,000 people.
Steve Haruch. Best of Nashville. Nashville Scene. October 10, 2013.
In this case, WTF doesn’t stand for what it often stands for — it’s actually Women for Tennessee’s Future. But that’s a bit of a back formation, because the group really was born of frustration: Why aren’t there more politically minded women seeking and getting elected to office in Tennessee — and WTF is up with that?