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National Organization for Women-NYS Reacts to "Aggressive" slap at Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney

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National Organization for Women-NYS reacts to "aggressive" slap at Maloney

ALBANY, NY (01/17/2009; 2030)(readMedia)-- The National Organization for Women-PAC led the charge as the first organization to endorse Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney for the Senate seat that will soon be vacated by Senator Hillary Clinton, because women felt Maloney would aggressively pursue an agenda that is good for women, children, and families of New York State. She's a leader we can believe in.

And then we read Elizabeth Benjamin's blog on the January 16 Daily News website that Ken Lovett reported: "A source close to Paterson has said Maloney has little chance. The governor, the source said, finds her too aggressive." In response to this strange assertion, NOW-NYS President Marcia Pappas asks: "Is it too aggressive to,

• Go after jobs for New York State?
• Rebuild New York State after 9-11?
• Insist on proper health care for the 9-11 responders?
• Go after stimulus resources for New York State?
• Push for high speed rail which would help develop upstate New York?
• Work for and pass major legislation to help not only New York State, but our country?
• Fight to end deceptive Credit Card practices?"

Pappas further states, "Aggressive means assertive. Assertive, hardworking representation is a good thing; it's what New Yorkers want in their leaders. Dismissing a woman as "aggressive" instead of focusing on her record is insufferable. What is a positive for men is turned into a negative for women. Did anyone ever find Senator Chuck Schumer "too aggressive?" He is effective, and so is Carolyn Maloney. Did we learn anything from all of the hateful stereotyping of Senator Clinton in the last campaign? I hope so, because words matter. And so do achievements.

Maloney has won the endorsement of the National Organization for Women-PAC, National Organization for Women Legislators PAC, Business and Professional Women PAC, Feminist Majority PAC, National Women's Political Caucus PAC, 504 Democratic Club, Gloria Steinem, and Cranes Business Magazine.

So, yes, Carolyn Maloney is aggressive. New Yorkers should be thankful for that!

See http://maloney.house.gov/

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Shame, Shame on John McCain

Shame, Shame On John McCain

By Sandy Rapp

Appalling, that's the word. A man so brave in war would hide behind the skirts of this unseasoned novice, a woman whom his sound biters have turned into a mad medley of non sequitural talking points for which she consults crib sheets hidden in her lap.

This woman is a candidate for Vice President of the United States? Why? To shake up the campaign, of course, with a "first." And the that's the truth, plain and tall.

Yes, but why this woman? Easy! Because she's anti-choice. Many other Republicans are accomplished women who might actually fit the national bill. But these women are pro-choice. That is, they would not use the power of the government to control women's reproduction. They are actual conservatives. And they would not pass the muster of the Religious Right, by whom the Republican Party has risen and fallen for the past thirty years.

So instead, John McCain has put an amateur to sea among the most sophisticated forces in the world. And all this transpires so a brave, new, creationist Supreme Court can curtail everything this country needs, from accurate science education to stem cell research and birth control.

Shame on you John, a patriot should know better. And shame on the Republicans for letting this happen. Don't they owe us something after George W. Bush?

Sandy Rapp is an author and songwriter who has performed at hundreds of feminist conferences and rallies around the country, including the million-plus 2004 March For Women's Lives in Washington, DC. She is responsible for much of the GLBT civil rights legislation on Long Island, NY, and recounted her experiences therewith in a 1991 book God's Country: A Case Against Theocracy. She can be reached at SandyRapp.com and SandyRapp@aol.com.

No Self Respecting Woman Should Wish or Work for.......

 

No Self Respecting woman should wish or work for the Success of  party that ignores her sex.

Susan B. Anthony, 1872.