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...start, she’s young. Still 19 years from an AARP card, Jane Swift is closer to my age than she is to my parents’ age. And at a time when our legislatures are stocked mostly with men who are in that “starting-to-need-hearing aids” demographic, it’s neat to see someone who brings a fresher face to the game...
What’s more, Swift is utterly normal. There’s no Cambridge mansion or Kennedy-esque legacy in this politico’s background. Swift is from the western Mass. town of North Adams and is the daughter of a teacher and a plumber. She’s won and lost political races, becoming the youngest woman ever to be elected to the state senate (she was 25), althoughy she lost a 1996 race for Congress...
...Massachusetts is one of the six states not to have a governor’s mansion, she often has to crash at her brother’s place in Boston when it’s too late to get back home. And let’s face it, although Swift demonstrated some poor judgment when she asked an aide to help baby-sit her daughter, I (and lots of other people) have forgiven Bill Clinton for many bigger transgressions...
...where Jane Swift is truly demonstrating “Her Excellency” is in bringing the work-family debate to the spotlight and highlighting the inequality that women face in this type of situation. Although Swift is likely the first woman to be pregnant while serving as a state governor, plenty of men in office have seen their wives gives birth. British Prime Minister Tony Blair won kudos for, gasp, taking a week off to attend to his family after his wife gave birth...
...Jane Swift only gets flak for suggesting that she’ll work from home after she gives birth (which will likely happen in June). Joe Fitzgerald, a columnist for the Boston Herald, is particularly critical of Swift, and belittles her efforts by suggesting that running the state from home would be like “taking a correspondence course.” And even Secretary of State William Galvin went on the record criticizing Swift, telling the Herald that “it remains to be seen” whether Swift can balance motherhood and being governor...