Former U.S. Olympic skier: N.H. GOP ‘clearly still has a problem with women and women’s issues’
The first American skier to win a medal in the Olympic downhill event says the New Hampshire GOP “hit a new low Saturday night when it lashed out at Sen. Jeanne Shaheen for congratulating the Boston Bruins on their recent victory.”
In a letter to the editor of the Concord Monitor, former U.S. Olympic alpine skier Penny Pitou says the “unprovoked and nasty” message indicates the party “clearly still has a problem with women and women’s issues:”
Why would the New Hampshire Republican Party assume Shaheen doesn’t know the first thing about hockey?
She has celebrated Bruins victories for decades. She was a collegiate basketball player. She coached her daughters’ sports teams. She has grandchildren who play hockey.
So why, then, would they assume that she doesn’t know “the first thing about hockey?” Could it be because she is a woman? […]
The string of aggressive tweets that came out of the NHGOP were perhaps so unsettling because they came out of nowhere, yet from what seemed to be a very angry, bitter place.
They were unprovoked and nasty, and made giant presumptions about Shaheen based on her gender. The Republican Party clearly still has a problem with women and women’s issues.