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-----Original Message-----
From: "John Podesta" <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:37:32
To:[email protected]
Subject: Re: Weekly Update for the Organization *temporarily known as* PMUSA - June 13th
You around Sunday? What's best # to reach you at?
On 6/13/08, Tara McGuinness <[email protected]> wrote:
> This week June 13, 2008 - Progressive Media USA Campaign Update
>
>
>
> New McCain Campaign Developments . . .
>
> ・ McCain will give an energy speech in Houston, Texas next Tuesday.
> [Houston <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/energy/5834193.html>
> Chronicle, 6/13/08]
>
> ・ McCain will give a speech on free trade in Canada next Friday.
> [Associated
> <http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MCCAIN_CANADA?SITE=MAHYC&SECTION=HOM
> E&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT> Press, 6/12/08]
>
> ・ The McCain campaign is sending Carly Fiorina on the road as part
> of their outreach to disaffected Clinton supporters and women. [Politico,
> 6/12/08]
>
>
>
> Progressive Media USA and Partner Activities This Week . . .
>
> McCain's Policies Out of Touch with Women
>
> The McCain campaign has been pushing the storyline that Senator McCain is
> poised to win over disaffected Clinton supporters, especially women. This
> week, PMUSA and our partners worked to downplay their frame and push our
> frame that McCain is out of touch with women and will have trouble winning
> the women's vote. During a Sunday planning call with partners we mapped
> out a week-long campaign to push a policy report, polls, surrogates and key
> facts about how McCain is out of touch with women. The result of these
> efforts was a front page story on the cover of the Washington Post.
>
> RESEARCH: Our research team put together a document on McCain's record on
> women and family issues. We shared this document with our partners. This
> research was integrated into an Emily's List memo and a CAPAF report on
> "What Women Want" on McCain's damaging policies for women and families.
>
> PRESS: PMUSA organized a reporter conference call on Wednesday with EMILY's
> List President Ellen R. Malcolm, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
> Anna Greenberg and James Kvaal from the Center for American Progress Action
> Fund to discuss how McCain is out of step with women. The call focused on
> why women will not flock to McCain and included information on his policies,
> his record and polling data.
>
> On the day of the call, CAPAF put out a policy paper analyzing McCain's
> policies and why they would be bad for women. EMILY's List put out a memo
> discussing the importance of the women's vote in 2008.
>
> NARAL Pro-Choice America sent a memo to reporters and editorial board
> writers with five questions they should ask McCain about his anti-choice
> record.
>
> GRASSROOTS: EMILY's List used PMUSA research to create a pocket card <http:
> //emilyslist.org/images/mccain_words_download.pdf> on McCain's record,
> which they distributed to over 1,000 people, including prominent pro-choice
> women officials, reporters and strategists, gathered at their conference.
>
> POLLING: PMUSA tracks public polling and sent a Gallup around to our
> partners showing McCain losing ground with women. The poll was highlighted
> in the press call and made it into many stories about McCain's uphill
> effort to win the support of women.
>
> ONLINE: Our new media team is working with NARAL to produce an online video
> about McCain's anti-choice record. Moveon.org released a video put
> together by Planned Parenthood.
>
> News reports used our frame and included much of our research and data:
>
> * "Clinton's steadfast women supporters, some of whom vowed never to
> look beyond Clinton's candidacy, must now choose between Obama and McCain.
> Malcolm and Shultz, both early supporters of Clinton's presidential bid, say
> that choice becomes clear when you look at McCain's record. They pointed to
> McCain's consistent anti-abortion voting record, his support for the Iraq
> war, and his failure to vote on the Fair Pay Act, a bill that would restore
> workers' ability to go to court in cases of pay discrimination." [ABC
> <http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/06/clinton-support.html> ,
> 6/11/08]
> * "McCain is currently running well behind George W. Bush in 2004,
> who lost women voters to John Kerry by just three points by appealing to
> 'security moms.'" [The <http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/328690>
> Nation, 6/11/08]
> * "Women leaders who supported Hillary Clinton's presidential
> campaign started a full-court press today to define Republican John McCain
> as damaging to women on economics, abortion and other issues. They urged
> women to vote for Democrat Barack Obama…. Malcolm knocked down what she
> called 'the mythology' of talk from the McCain campaign about picking up
> Clinton's female voters. 'think that idea's a pipe dream. Sen McCain is
> really out of touch with the lives these women are leading,' she said."
> [USA
> <http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/06/democratic-wome.html?loc=inter
> stitialskip> Today, 6/11/08]
> * "Citing the latest Gallup numbers showing that Barack Obama has
> gained support among women since rival Hillary Clinton exited the Democratic
> primary contest, Emily's List founder Ellen Malcolm told reporters this
> morning that when women voters learn the truth about John McCain's positions
> on abortion rights, the Iraq war and tax cuts for oil companies, they'll put
> their grieving for Clinton's campaign behind them." [Hotline
> <http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/06/pipe_dream.html#com
> ments> , 6/11/08]
> * "The women -including Ellen Malcolm, the president of Emily's List,
> and Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat of Florida - said some
> people think Mr. McCain is moderate on women's issues because he has
> occasionally been a maverick in the past but he is in fact quite
> conservative, especially on abortion rights. Mr. McCain favors overturning
> Roe v. Wade and voted against a bill to make it easier for women to file
> lawsuits seeking equal pay for equal work." [New
> <http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/winning-backwomen/#more-5349>
> York Times, 6/11/08]
> * "Women's groups moved quickly to close ranks behind the presumptive
> Democratic nominee this week, with several former Clinton supporters joining
> in a conference call to try to debunk McCain's assertion that he can appeal
> to women." [Washington
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR200806110
> 3854.html> Post, 6/12/08]
>
>
>
> Holding the Media Accountable - Covering McCain's Lobbyist Ties
>
> PMUSA and our partners continue to keep the pressure on McCain's ties to
> lobbyists.
>
> FEC Complaint: This week, Campaign Money Watch filed an FEC complaint <http:
> //www.campaignmoney.org/mccainfec> against the McCain campaign asking the
> FEC to look into finance director Susan Nelson's payments from Tom
> Loeffler's lobbying group while she was working on the campaign and
> possible illegal corporate donation from 3eDC, a private Web company partly
> owned by Rick Davis. CMW also launched a television ad
> <http://www.campaignmoney.org/mccainairbus> criticizing McCain's lobbyist
> ties to the Airbus tanker deal. The AP, Countdown with Keith Olbermann,
> CBSNews.com, Hotline and ABCNews.com reported on the complaint.
>
> * "A group that supports public financing of campaigns filed a
> federal complaint against John McCain's presidential campaign Monday,
> calling for an investigation into two financial transactions involving two
> top McCain aides." [Associated
> <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080609/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_fec> Press, 6/9/08]
>
> Ukrainian Oil Lobbyist Ties: On Thursday, the New York Times reported that
> in 2005, the National Security Council complained to Sen. McCain's office
> that Rick Davis' lobbying firm was "undercutting American foreign policy
> in Ukraine." Davis' firm, Davis Manafort, lobbied for Ukraine politician,
> Viktor Yanukovich, who was accused of trying to kill his opponent,
> Yushchenko, with radio-active poison.
>
> We pushed this story to reporters and our partners. Campaign Money Watch
> sent out a release calling again for Rick Davis to be fired. National
> Security Network is working with reporters to dig deeper into what Rick
> Davis did for Yanukovich.
>
> McCain VP Vetter: While the McCain campaign hit Obama on his VP vetter, we
> pushed back with research about McCain's VP vetter, who is a big lobbyist.
> We shared this research with reporters.
>
> * "And amidst all this back-and-forth, parsing and equivocating about
> Jim Johnson, the man who is vetting Sen. Barack Obama's vice presidential
> hopefuls, we now ask: who is vetting Sen. John McCain's would-be heirs to
> the throne?
>
> "Aerospace titan Lockheed Martin retained Culvahouse in 1999 to lobby for a
> Senate bill that would have enabled the Secretary of Transportation to give
> Lockheed Martin and other companies financing for the companies to develop
> 'commercial space transportation vehicles with launch costs significantly
> below current levels.'" [ABC
> <http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/and-whos-vett-1.html> ,
> 6/10/08]
>
>
>
> Rapid Response US Troops in Iraq "Not too Important"
>
> During an interview with Matt Lauer on the Today Show on Wednesday, McCain
> said it's "not too important" when our troops can come home.
>
> LAUER: If it's now working, Senator, do you now have a better estimate of
> when American forces can come home to Iraq?
>
> MCCAIN: No, but that's not too important. What's important is the casualties
> in Iraq. Americans are in South Korea, Americans are in Japan, American
> troops are in Germany. That's all fine. American casualties and the ability
> to withdraw; we will be able to withdraw."
>
> Before arriving to work, PMUSA staff started alerting our partners about
> McCain's statement and urged them to pile on McCain. We reached out to
> prominent members of Congress, Vote Vets, Iraq Campaign 2008, Americans
> United and the National Security Network. Numerous Democrats spoke out and
> called Senator McCain out of touch with our military families and with the
> situation in Iraq.
>
> Senator Reid sent out a statement and Senator Biden talked to reporters
> about the comment. The Obama campaign organized a press call featuring
> Senator Kerry and Susan Rice. VoteVets.org and the Iraq Campaign sent out
> statements. By 11 am, Senator McCain was directly trying to explain his
> remarks.
>
> * "McCain's statement today that withdrawing troops doesn't matter
> is a crystal clear indicator that he just doesn't get the grave
> national-security consequences of staying the course - Osama bin Laden is
> freely plotting attacks, our efforts in Afghanistan are undermanned, and our
> military readiness has been dangerously diminished. We need a smart change
> in strategy to make America more secure, not a commitment to indefinitely
> keep our troops in an intractable civil war." [Senator
> <http://democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=298992&> Harry Reid
> statement, 6/11/08]
> * "My first question is this: What do the troops in theater think of
> a statement like that? What does the young sergeant on the 14th month of
> his third tour think when John McCain says it's 'not too important' when
> we come home? In fact, this kind of talk is devastating to the morale of
> the troops." [VoteVets.org release <http://www.votevets.org/news?id=0146>
> , 6/11/08]
> * "Mr. Straight Talk Express Moves the Goalposts in Iraq…Again;
> '[T]hat's not too important' - Senator John McCain today on NBC's Today
> Show on when he thinks US troops can come home from Iraq" [Iraq Campaign
> release, 6/11/08]
>
> The Obama and McCain campaigns went back and forth about the comment all day
> , which dominated press coverage.
>
> * "John McCain's comments Wednesday seeming to downplay the return of
> U.S. troops from Iraq set off another presidential campaign fight over the
> war." [USA
> <http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-06-11-mccain_N.htm?
> loc=interstitialskip> Today, 6/12/08]
> * "Democrats leapt to criticize Mr. McCain for playing down the
> strains of the war." [New
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/us/politics/12campaign.html?ref=us> York
> Times, 6/12/08]
> * KEITH OLBERMANN: "How do veterans, how do veterans families feel
> when they hear that the man who wants to be the next commander in chief does
> not think it's too important when they come home?" [Countdown with Keith
> Olbermann on MSNBC, 6/11/08]
>
>
>
> Fact-checking McCain's Remarks
>
> Earmarks - On Tuesday, McCain said he had never taken an earmark for
> Arizona. We sent around our research that shows that he has asked for
> multiple pork projects to reporters and to our partners.
>
> Guantanamo - On Thursday, McCain said he has always been in support of
> closing Guantanamo prison. We sent around our research to reporters which
> showed McCain's claim to be false.
>
> Earmarks II - On Friday, McCain said he has never received pork for Arizona.
> We again sent around our research that shows that he has asked for multiple
> pork projects to reporters and to our partners.
>
>
>
> McBush Frame
>
> We continue to tie McCain to Bush's policies at every opportunity. Last
> week, McCain gave a speech taking on the frame that he is just like Bush -
> but the frame continues to stick.
>
> * "As a rule, political candidates have more success when they're
> telling people what they're for and who they are -- rather than defensively
> explaining what, and who, they are not. Which is why you might have found
> the first two national salvos of the general election from the McCain
> campaign a bit puzzling. First, in his general
> <http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/Speeches/38121aa3-ad2d-41a6-b6e0-3
> e54247b4c2f.htm> election launch speech a week ago tonight (widely panned
> because of McCain's awkward delivery), the money graf was all about McCain
> defending himself against the Democratic charge that he is little more than
> McBush, a clone who would continue the current unpopular president's
> policies. Then, at the end of the week, came the campaign's first major TV
> buy, a 30-second spot running in ten key states around the country, on both
> cable and broadcast. It's message: I'm not a warmonger.
>
> "McCain's advisers know it would be far better to be spending precious time
> and money defining who John McCain is rather than who he isn't. But in the
> current political environment, they felt they had to play defense first. For
> those who haven't seen it, here's the McCain ad, called 'Safe':" [TIME
> <http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/06/mccain_plays_defense.html> ,
> 6/10/08]
>
>
>
> In the States:
>
> Iowa
>
> Iowa held a press conference on Tuesday, June 10 focusing on McCain's
> record on women's issues. Despite two media outlets attending the presser,
> bad weather including flooding and tornadoes subsumed all media coverage and
> there were no clips.
>
> LTE's
>
> Farm bill succeeds despite Bush veto
> Des
> <http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008806130355>
> Moines Register, June 13, 2008
>
> Congratulations to Sens. Tom Harkin and Chuck Grassley and the Congress for
> passing a farm bill that helps rural Iowans and Americans. The farm bill is
> supported by rural and urban members of Congress, as well as organizations
> across the political spectrum.
>
> Iowans will benefit from new investments in conservation, renewable energy,
> nutrition and a strong farm-income safety net.
>
> Fortunately for rural Iowans, the bipartisan majority of Congress overrode
> President Bush's veto of this necessary legislation - a veto supported by
> Sen. John McCain. Their efforts to undermine bipartisan support for rural
> America reinforce their continued backing of corporate interests over
> programs for food producers and working families.
>
> - Sen. Gene Fraise, chair, state Senate Agriculture Committee, Fort Madison;
> Rep. John Whitaker, vice chair, state House Agricultural Committee,
> Hillsboro
>
>
>
> Iowa's senators back Farm Bill
> Iowa <http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008806070360>
> City Press Citizen, June 7, 2008
>
>
> Congratulations to Senators Tom Harkin and Chuck Grassley for helping to
> pass a Farm Bill that helps rural Iowans and Americans. The Farm Bill is
> supported by rural and urban Members of Congress as well as organizations
> across the political spectrum. When both political parties and multi-faceted
> organizations work together, Congress can produce good results.
>
>
>
> Fortunately for rural Iowans, the bipartisan majority of Congress overrode
> President George W. Bush's veto of this necessary legislation -- a veto
> supported by Sen. John McCain. The efforts of Bush and McCain to undermine
> bipartisan support for rural America reinforce their continued backing of
> corporate interests over programs for food producers and working families.
>
>
>
> McCain's and Bush's actions reinforce old notions of a Washington that can't
> work despite strong bipartisan efforts to the contrary. Iowans should take
> every opportunity to tell McCain and Bush we want Washington to change and
> work for results that benefit our families, not corporations.
>
>
>
> Sen. Gene Fraise, chairman & Rep. John Whitaker, vice chairman
>
> Iowa House Agriculture Committee
>
> Op-Ed
>
> McCain offers the wrong kind of change
> Iowa
> <http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080607/OPINION05/
> 806070301/1018/OPINION> City Press Citizen, June 7, 2008
>
> Most of us know someone who's been personally affected by the health care
> crisis: a single mom struggling to keep her kids healthy, a senior who can't
> keep up with the rising costs of prescription drugs or a part-time worker
> whose deductibles are too high for him to afford coverage. It's a broken
> system in desperate need of change.
>
>
>
> The debate raging across America is whether we as a country will ensure that
> health care is affordable and available to everyone.
>
>
>
> Sen. John McCain and President George W. Bush approach the health care
> crisis like a business proposition -- they believe it's a market-based
> commodity in which government should not participate. They say people will
> be more responsible consumers if they purchase health care on their own.
>
> Under the McCain-Bush plan, quality health care would become like mansions
> and limousines -- something available only to the very rich. CEOs and their
> families would get top-of-the-line medical treatments, and everyone else
> would be left to fend for themselves.
>
>
>
> McCain's plan shifts the burden from employers to workers. He would raise
> taxes on working families by making employer-provided health benefits
> taxable. McCain proposes a very modest tax credit to offset his new tax, but
> it would cover less than half the average health insurance premium, leaving
> workers to pick up the difference. In addition, he will make the high cost
> of individual insurance even worse with high-deductible health savings
> accounts, which have been touted by Bush, providing fewer benefits at higher
> costs. Recent studies show that such health savings accounts are used most
> by citizens who earn on average $139,000 annually and who rarely withdraw
> funds, pointing to their real function as yet another tax shelter for the
> wealthiest Americans.
>
>
>
> McCain's efforts to "eliminate the bias" toward employer-based health care
> will encourage employers to stop offering health care, forcing workers into
> an unregulated private insurance market to fend for themselves. Insurance
> companies will be rewarded by attracting only the healthiest people, driving
> up overall costs. They can decide to refuse to cover people with
> pre-existing conditions, including cancer survivors. Retirees will have a
> particularly hard time getting health care.
>
>
>
> Americans and Iowans want and deserve changes in our health care system that
> help working families. Instead, John McCain continues to cling to the failed
> principles of Bush by placing more of the health care burden on working
> families.
>
>
>
> We don't need that kind of change.
>
>
>
> - Jan Laue is executive vice president of the Iowa Federation of
> Labor, AFL-CIO.
>
>
> Blog
>
> 10 Reasons Why Women Should Not Vote For John McCain
>
> Demo <http://thedemomemo.com/2008/06/10_reasons_why_women_should_no.html>
> Memo, June 9, 2008 <http://thedemomemo.com/2008/06/>
>
> McCain's campaign is wasting no time in courting former Clinton supporters
> to their side. While I find this completely unbelievable, I have to remember
> that most people don't follow politics and have no idea what John McCain's
> record is.
> That is where the DemoMemo.com comes in. I'm here to give women ten good
> reasons not to even consider voting for John McCain.
>
> 1. John McCain sees your sons and daughters as plastic pawns in a
> global game of chess. He has stated that the U.S. may have a presence in
> Iraq for the <http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/14/mccain.king/> next
> hundred years.
> 2. McCain has no
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/21/short-on-economic-underst_n_82529.
> html> clue about the economy. He has even admitted that it's not his strong
> suit.
> 3. McCain
> <http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/2/5/mccain-on-the-bush-ta
> x-cuts.html> wants to keep the Bush tax cuts for the richest of the rich.
> He flip-flopped on this issue.
> 4. John McCain was punished for being involved in one of the worst
> savings
> <http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/mccain/articles/0301mccainbio-chapte
> r7.html> and loan scandals this country has ever seen, the bailout of which
> cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
> 5. John McCain has lost his maverick appeal. Over the last two years
> alone, he has voted with President Bush 100% of the time.
> 6. John McCain has an explosive, angry temperment. According to eye
> witness accounts, in the 1990's he called his wife a "c*nt" in public.
> 7. McCain worked with the democrats in the Senate to formulate a
> bipartisan solution to our country's <http://thedemomemo.com/> immigration
> problem, only to abandon the plan when grilled by ultra conservatives.
> 8. John McCain received a zero
> <http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2008/mccain_gw_record.html>
> on his voting record on the environment from the League of Conservation
> voters. He also repeatedly supported oil companies and voted against car
> mileage standards.
> 9. John McCain did nothing to help people suffering from the damage of
> Hurricane
> <http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/04/8059_john_mccains_mi.h
> tml> Katrina.
> 10. At last, but certainly not least, John McCain has stated that he
> will do everything he can to reverse Roe
> <http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/issues/95b18512-d5b6-456e-90a2-12028d71
> df58.htm> vs. Wade, and will follow suit with his Supreme Court nominees.
>
>
>
> Ohio:
>
> Carly Fiorina visited Ohio on Thursday to reach out to women who previously
> supported Senator Clinton. Our research team pulled together a document on
> Fiorina's support of outsourcing and her golden parachute severance pay,
> which we sent to ProgressOhio. ProgressOhio moved this document to Ohio
> reporters.
>
> Other Ohio activities this week include the following blog posts:
>
> McCain's War on Women <http://progressohio.org/page/s/mccainwaronwomen>
>
> John McCain is often painted as a moderate.
>
> But where does he really stand on issues that affect women?
>
> McCain's Senate record may surprise you. From equal pay to domestic violence
> programs, from sex education to the fundamental question of what
> conversations a woman may or may not have with her doctor, McCain is no
> moderate.
>
> Get the facts about where John McCain stands on these issues, then let us
> know where you stand on John McCain.
>
> McCain's War on Equal Pay
>
> ・ McCain skipped a recent vote on Equal Pay, and said that instead of
> legislation allowing women to fight for equal pay, they simply need
> "education and training." (Women are currently paid less than men for the
> same work, even when they have the same education and training as men).
> [Source
> <http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cf
> m?congress=110&session=2&vote=00110> ]
>
> McCain's War on Birth Control
>
> ・ McCain has never cosponsored or supported legislation that would
> reduce the need for abortion by preventing unintended pregnancy [Source
> <http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf> ]
>
> ・ McCain voted against requiring insurance companies that pay for
> prescription drugs (like Viagra) to pay equally for women's prescription
> birth control [Source
> <http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cf
> m?congress=108&session=1&vote=00045> ]
>
> ・ McCain voted for the domestic & global gag rules, which prohibit
> federally funded family-planning clinics from giving women full information
> about their reproductive health options [Source
> <http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf> ]
>
> McCain's War on Women's Health
>
> ・ McCain voted to terminate the Title X family planning program, which
> provides millions of women with health care services ranging from birth
> control to breast & cervical cancer screenings [Source
> <http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf> ]
>
> ・ McCain voted to de‐fund the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),
> an organization that provides family planning services - not abortion - for
> the world's poorest women [Source
> <http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf> ]
>
> McCain's War on Sex Education
>
> ・ McCain voted against funding teen pregnancy prevention programs and
> against ensuring that "abstinence‐only" programs are at least medically
> accurate [Source
> <http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf> ]
>
> ・ McCain voted to earmark one‐third of all HIV/AIDS prevention funds
> for ineffective, unproven, and dangerous "abstinence‐only" programs [Source
> <http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf> ]
>
> ・ McCain voted to take $75 million from the Maternal and Child Health
> Block Grant to establish a new "abstinence‐only" program that censors
> information about birth control [Source
> <http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf> ]
>
> McCain's War on Choice
>
> ・ Voted anti-choice 125 out of 130 times in his congressional career
> [Source <http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf>
> ]
>
> ・ Voted in favor of anti-choice Supreme Court Justices like Samuel Alito
> and Clarence Thomas and Chief Justices like John Roberts [Source
> <http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf> ]
>
> ・ McCain routinely votes to block women's access to abortion care for
> low-income women, voted for the Federal Abortion Ban, and opposed federal
> Medicaid funds for abortion even in cases of rape or incest.[Source
> <http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf> ]
>
> ・ McCain voted to deny abortion services to U.S. military women serving
> overseas, even when they wish to pay for such services with their own money
> [Source <http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf>
> ]
>
> McCain's War on Domestic Violence Programs
>
> ・ Voted against a measure to increase funding for law enforcement
> programs, including the Office of Violence Against Women programs and the
> Center for Missing and Exploited Children [Source
> <http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cf
> m?congress=109&session=1&vote=00226> ]
>
> ・ Opposed grant programs to aid children who have witnessed domestic
> violence [Source
> <http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cf
> m?congress=106&session=1&vote=00125> ]
>
>
>
> Sign the <http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/daveharding/C2D9>
> "Ex-Hillary Fans For McCain" Pledge
>
>
> By Dave Harding, ProgressOhio
> <http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/person/gGBNfF> - Jun 11th, 2008
> at 7:25 am EDT
>
> ・ The McCain Loyalty Oath for Women
>
> ・ I _____________ pledge to transfer my support from Hillary
> Clinton to John McCain. I agree to do all I can do to get McCain the vote.
> In order to achieve this noble goal I promise to support McCain's...
>
> ・ * fight to overturn Roe v. Wade
> <http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/issues/95b18512-d5b6-456e-90a2-12028d71
> df58.htm> and my right to choose.
> * fight against equal pay for men and women.
> * opposition to providing low-income and uninsured women and families
> with health care services ranging from breast and cervical cancer screening
> to birth control.
> * opposition to sex education and support of abstinence-only education.
> * quest for not making birth control covered by insurance.
> * endorsement of women's rights more "in theory
> <http://www.wtop.com/?nid=213&sid=1392352> " than in practice.
> * pet name
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/01/mccain-asked-did-you-call_n_99744.
> html> for his wife.
>
> ・ As a woman I promise to apply McCain's principles to my own life
> and vow to...
>
> ・ * call myself and my female friends the C word.
> * picket abortion clinics.
> * not use contraceptives.
> * drink bleach
> <http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/04/03/abstinence-only-education-failing-
> teens-think-bleach-prevents-hiv/> so I don't catch HIV and drink Mountain
> Dew so I don't get pregnant.
> * give back part of my salary to male coworkers.
> * not vote, but pursue education
> <http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/23/mccain-dismisses-equal-pay-legislation-
> says-women-need-more-training-and-education/> and encourage my
> father/husband/brother male friends to vote for McCain.
>
> ・ Once McCain is elected, I will continue to support him and I will
> not complain about my losing my right to choose, and other reproductive
> freedoms. And I will continue to refrain from pursuing equality for women.
>
> ・ Sincerely,
> Signature __________
>
> ・ PS: If you are no longer of the age where you are personally
> concerned about your reproductive rights sign this pledge on behalf of your
> daughters, granddaughters, nieces and all younger women in America.
>
>
>
> Wisconsin
>
> LTE's
>
> Dick Vander Woude: All that experience, and McCain's still wrong on war
> Madison Capitol <http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/letters/290223> Times,
> 6/08/2008
>
> Dear Editor: Even before Barack Obama locked up the votes to secure the
> Democratic Party's nomination, the John McCain forces started with the
> experience issue, which was quickly echoed by some of Hillary Clinton's most
> ardent supporters. Three years and a great speech does not a president make,
> their rant goes.
>
>
>
> Certainly, experience counts. It is important in the development of
> leadership. But the experience ought to add up to something of value.
>
>
>
> I recall an education professor, many years ago, who shaped my understanding
> of the value of experience. He asked us to consider the value of a teacher
> with 10 years of experience compared to another teacher who had attained one
> year of experience 10 times. The lesson is clear. Longevity is not
> experience. Repetition is habit forming, and habits are hard to break.
>
>
>
> Now apply this view of experience to the candidates' positions on war.
> McCain is a longtime supporter of Bush's unprovoked invasion of Iraq. Does
> his position represent a habit he cannot, or will not, break? This is not a
> cynical question. McCain announced the surge is over (which it isn't), and
> said that it would be all right with him if U.S. troops remained in Iraq for
> 100 years. Oh? For what purpose?
>
>
>
> McCain's recent statements suggest that he has either forgotten that the
> surge was designed to achieve political accommodation within Iraq, or he
> wants us to forget so he can continue the Bush administration's policy of
> democratic imperialism.
>
>
>
> Obama, by contrast, had the wisdom -- gleaned from his experience -- to know
> this war was wrong and opposed it from the outset. Obama's experience is
> broad, while McCain's is only long. Which experience will best serve our
> country? Give me experience that represents change I can believe in.
>
>
>
> Dick Vander Woude
>
> Madison
>
>
> Blog
>
>
> John McCain Doesn't Represent Me
> Rock
> <http://rocknetroots.blogspot.com/2008/06/john-mccain-doesnt-represent-me.ht
> ml> Netroots Commentary, by Louis Kaye 6/10/08
>
>
> Watch and <http://youtube.com/watch?v=lnzqpVWC2-o&feature=related> listen
> to John McCain imply that citizens fighting for equal rights and equal pay
> are nothing more than dupes of trial lawyers scheming to make money. And he
> is applauded!!
>
> [PFAW's Youtube Here]
>
> A fourteen-year-old girl knew better and stood on her own against the
> intimidating GOP presidential candidate… What a gutsy little lady!!
>
> Check it out at One <http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/mccainnoequalpay>
> Wisconsin, and then pass it along to your friends.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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