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In a new official portrait photo issued today, U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum appears to have moved the part in her hair from the left to center-right. The Democrat also has added a House of Representatives pin on what appears to be a mauve Mao jacket, effectively jamming attempts at easy ideological interpretation.
McCollum’s occasional update doesn’t make her an outlier by any means. Sen. Amy Klobuchar has altered her ‘do from time to time, and McCollum’s colleague Michele Bachmann has been known to change hairstyles over a span of mere days.
Another Minnesota Betty, General Mills icon Betty Crocker, changed her hairstyle at epoch-setting intervals to great public interest.
Male members of Minnesota’s Congressional delegation tend not to change hairstyles much, but Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s mullet has seemed to appear and disappear in direct relation to his political prospects of the moment.
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Comment posted June 23, 2009 @ 7:33 pm
Posted for a commenter who goes by the name Impeccable Liberal-Credentials: “Not related to hairstyle but failure to support HR 676, a call on SPIF for primary challenge to McCollum. I wrote about it on dailyKos.”
Also, Lindsay at Female Impersonators has some choice words for this post … five in particular: Hairstyles are not political news.
Comment posted June 24, 2009 @ 12:55 am
These are the kinds of stories that many were hoping to see less of after Sen. Clinton became a serious contender for U.S. President. It reminds me of “news” stories early in the campaign about Hillary’s cleavage or Hillary’s hair or Hillary’s getitshe’sawomanandnotaman. Reporters need to ask themselves why they consider the appearance of female politicians more important than the appearance of male politicians.
Comment posted June 24, 2009 @ 11:44 am
Re: double take – to be fair, this article does link to another piece about T-Paw’s mullet. Granted, this type of story is overwhelmingly about female politicians, which I do agree is sexist. It would be nice to see equal attention spent on the appearances of politicians of all genders, or no attention at all.
Comment posted June 24, 2009 @ 1:08 pm
Not news, not interesting, not worth the time to leave a comme…
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