Yesterday Meg Whitman paid former housekeeper Nicandra Díaz Santillán $5,500 to settle their dispute over unpaid wages. Whitman's rep insists she's innocent but, "This is simply the most practical and cost effective way to put the issue to rest."
There are 56 Democratic congresswomen, soon to be 51, and 17 Republican congresswomen, soon to be 24. But despite those gains, "women have had virtually no success penetrating the inner circle of the Republican congressional hierarchy," reports Politico.
Patty Murray has kept her Senate seat in Washington State. Sorry, Republicans. And Lisa Murkowski is thanking supporters for her win, although she won't actually know if she won until next week. Sorry, Tea Party and Sarah Palin.
Exit poll data is easy to distort, and the overlaps of many categories are often ignored, but here are some insights from how people voted Tuesday. It's not pretty.
Carl Paladino is not sexist for calling Senator Kirsten Gillibrand "[Senator] Schumer's little girl." And he's going to prove it by refusing to be interviewed on that rather inconvenient topic. "I think we're done talking to this lady," he mumbled.
Christine O'Donnell, meet Krystal Ball, who knows a thing or two about how to play the publication of "embarrassing" photos or material. But judging from O'Donnell's response to the publication of her ladybug-costumed makeout, maybe she already knows what's up.
Meg Whitman says the undocumented worker she employed for, oh, nine years should be deported.
Sharron Angle may not be talking to journalists, but she's got jokes. In the past day, she's sent Joy Behar flowers to thank Behar for calling her a bitch and launched a Monopoly-inspired game to mock Harry Reid on immigration.
Back in August, Rebecca Traister and Jezebel founding editor Anna Holmes argued that "the left's failure to nurture and celebrate female politicians" had helped create Sarah Palin. Now, several women in politics are saying national Democrats are doing just that.
Republican senate nominee and breast cancer survivor Carly Fiorino was admitted to the hospital late yesterday for an infection related to the reconstructive surgery that followed her double mastectomy. She's due to be released today.
Since even Sharron Angle's people realized her own ignorance was getting her in trouble, Angle has taken to evading the press by tricking them into waiting by the wrong entrance. Why not just hire an Asian woman as a decoy?
It's challenging to stand out as a bigoted crackpot this campaign season, but Sharron Angle deserves a gold star, says Rachel Maddow, for having the most "overtly racist" ad this year. Is she also the most bigoted major-party nominee?
Earlier this week, we proposed giving Christine O'Donnell the Santorum treatment, such that we might assign an appropriate definition to "odonnell." After soliciting your suggestions, Jezebel is proud to declare the new meaning of the word.
You guys, Christine O'Donnell is totally going to win, no matter what those stupid polls say. And when she does, she's super psyched to reach across the aisle and work with Democratic Senators. Like, um ...
Now that noted dingbat Christine O'Donnell has thrust her way into our national discourse, she must be stopped.
Hoping to remind women who is at least nominally on our side, the White House will issue a report about its own efforts on equal pay. But why talk about substance when we could just talk about Mean Girls?
Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller mocks incumbent Lisa Murkowski, who lost in the primary, in what's possibly the least embarrassing Old Spice ad parody ever. Kudos to Joe for resisting the urge to ride a staffer dressed as a cow.
Carl Paladino told Orthodox rabbis earlier this week that he would "seek ways to protect everyone from obscenity on the internet." How inconvenient for a fresh round of porn forwards to surface. Including girl-on-girl action. But that's not gay, right?
