Little item here about a small town in Texas where all the elected officials are women ('bout time, too).
Peggy Baer was elected mayor in May 2007 and leads a five-woman board of aldermen - yes, aldermen - in this town of about 830 residents.
Postmaster Diane Manuel's somewhat tongue-in-cheek rationale: "We have people skills, and we're a lot better to look at than most guys."
She added, "You know why else women run this town? They're not as cocky."
The mayor and aldermen are all grandmothers, and Baer said their experience has made them "good multitaskers."
"Women can change a diaper, stir a pot of stew, take a phone call and use a leg to drag a toddler out from under the counter," she said. "We don't mind asking questions and saying we don't understand something."
Bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never never let you forget you're a man...
Texas may have the good ol' boy reputation but it has also led the way for women holding elected office, said Ann Lewis, senior adviser for Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"We've known that since the days of Ann Richards," she said of the former Texas governor who died in 2006. "She set an example to women across the country."
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