Hillary Clinton

sheshe2

(83,731 posts) Thu Sep 3, 2015, 09:39 PM Sep 2015

Emilys List for Hillary 2016

A lifelong champion for women and families, who will fight for fairness

Hillary Clinton has devoted her entire career to fighting for women and families. Instead of going to a big law firm after graduating from Yale Law School, she took her first job going door to door for the Children’s Defense Fund. She helped lead the fight for the Children’s Health Insurance Program as first lady of the United States, and she put emphasis on women’s rights as a “cornerstone of American foreign policy” as Secretary of State. She’s fought to end gender discrimination in pay and for commonsense solutions for the middle class like policies to guarantee paid family and sick leave and raising the minimum wage. She was an original cosponsor of Fair Pay Act in the Senate.

A president who’ll change the economic reality Americans face

Hillary’s top priority is changing the economic reality for American families. She knows what it will take to make Washington work again—and knows the challenges Americans are facing. Born in a Chicago suburb, Hillary’s roots and heart are in the middle class. Her top priorities will be creating jobs and making sure the economy works for everyday Americans and their families, not just those at the top. Hillary will face a well-funded Republican opponent touting the most dangerously conservative, anti-choice platform we’ve seen in a generation. The costs of launching a national campaign are skyrocketing every year, and the GOP will be working overtime to push their extreme agenda all the way to the White House. With stakes this high, we need a pro-choice champion like Hillary Clinton more now than ever before—and she’ll need the full support of the EMILY’s List community on her side.

The most qualified candidate for president, who has what America needs in a leader

A visionary leader who’s always worked to create opportunity for others, Hillary has said she believes “our challenge is to be clear-eyed about the world as it is while never losing sight of the world as we want it to become.” When she is elected president, it will mean more opportunities for women, more opportunities for girls, and more opportunities for hardworking Americans across the country.