Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has endorsed a crop of female candidates across the electoral map, calling them her “mama grizzlies.” But according to EMILY’s List, Palin doesn’t have a monopoly on female support — and it's launching a campaign, “Sarah Doesn’t Speak for Me,” to prove it.
The new campaign, announced Tuesday by the fundraising group that promotes female candidates who support abortion rights, is a response to Palin’s endorsement of conservative, anti-abortion women in races across the country, and its website will feature multimedia, user-submitted stories and information about Palin-backed candidates.
“Palin has made it her mission to defeat candidates who have worked hard to champion the rights of women and families across the country and replace them with conservative candidates who want to repeal health care, stand with Big Business and eliminate a woman’s right to choose,” EMILY’s List President Stephanie Schriock said in a statement. “So today, EMILY’s List is calling on women — and men! — to let their voices be heard and to reject Palin’s reactionary candidates and backward-looking agenda.”
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Susan B. Anthony List, a group that supports female candidates who oppose abortion rights, came out swinging against the new site.
“EMILY’s List is running scared — and it shows,” SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement. “Clearly, in this ‘Year of the Pro-Life Woman,’ which Sarah Palin helped make possible, women have found their political voices. Pro-life ‘Mama Grizzlies’ represent the majority of women across the country.”
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