Emerge Louisiana will find its far-left leanings
won’t allow it to enjoy the low-hanging fruit success it has experienced in
other parts of the country, as upcoming 2018 election results will ratify.
It serves as the state arm of the national Emerge
America organization, which aims to elect female Democrats to offices at all
levels of government. Women, it claims, benefit the polity by their staunch support
for democratic principles like equality and fairness, actively involve
themselves in a variety of gender-salient issue areas (such as healthcare, the
economy, education and the environment), and show more responsive to
constituents, value cooperation over “hierarchical power,” and find ways to
engineer solutions in situations where “men have trouble finding common ground.”
The national group has a smorgasbord advisory board reflecting
its political fealties: far-out feminists, abortion-on-demand harridans, big-government
former elected officials, lionized ex-candidates defeated decisively, and ex-party
hacks. (The Louisiana version’s board has a
different function, as fundraisers.) Nationally, it boasts of a 73 percent
success rate so far in 2018 (although a not-insignificant portion includes very
minor boards or Democrat governance committees, and likely many of the posts
would elect a Democrat in any event).
