"Feminist Majority PAC Endorses Alan Sandals for US Senate Race in PA, Statement of Eleanor Smeal"
3/21/2006 - The Feminist Majority PAC is very proud to announce its endorsement of Alan Sandals to be Pennsylvania's next United States Senator.
Alan Sandals' candidacy is in keeping with Pennsylvania's long history of progressive thought and action.
Pennsylvania has long been the heart of the feminist movement, as so many of the movement's leaders got their start in that state, including myself. I grew up in Pennsylvania and raised my own children during their formative years in the South Hills of Pittsburgh. I've traveled all over the state organizing for women's rights and social justice, and I served as president of the Pennsylvania National Organization for Women.
I feel strongly that Pennsylvania needs the kind of progressive leadership that Alan Sandals would bring.
The Feminist Majority PAC has thoroughly examined Sandals' record, and we believe he represents the best of the Pennsylvania tradition of women's equality and social justice. Pennsylvania needs a strong voice in the U.S. Senate for women's rights, reproductive rights, pension rights, economic justice, and the rights of older Americans, especially women. Alan Sandals would be that voice.
This is a critical time for reproductive rights in the United States. South Dakota has just passed a ban on virtually all abortions in the state, and some eleven other states are considering similar bans. The Senate has confirmed two anti-choice Supreme Court Justices in the past six months. And the Supreme Court will soon decide whether the federal abortion procedure ban is constitutional.
There is no question -- Pennsylvania voters are in favor of keeping abortion and family planning legal. Alan Sandals represents these strongly held views. As a pension rights lawyer, he also is a fighter for economic justice for women. Alan Sandals is the best choice to represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate.
that's from the feminist wire daily and, if you live in pennsylvania, get on it. or send him money even if you don't. penn needs a senator, a real one. arlen's holding hands with the administration right now but not sure what base he's going to let them get to (nsa spying). he's not up for re-election. rick santorum is and the sooner he's out of office the quicker he can star in those solo j/o porn films he seems destined for. but casey junior is a creep and not worth voting for. casey junior is daddy's boy and there's something really sad about a grown man being daddy's little boy. so support alan sandals.
bully boy's working hard to try to build public support for his illegal and unpopular war. you just know he's going to need 6 weeks at the crawford ranchette any day now. i love how jennifer loven of ap calls it his 'iraq strategy.' there's a strategy? maybe she means when he infamously taunted 'bring it on'? it won't wash. just another daddy's boy trying to act like a man.
c.i. wrote about that and iraq this morning:
Bully Boy's efforts at the latest wave of Operation Happy Talk (not surprisingly) didn't charm/fool this community. This as CBS announces that Abdul Ameer Younis Hussein will be tried April 5th. The CBS cameraman will stand trial (no charges announced) exactly one year after he was taken into military custody. This news comes as Samir Mohammed Noor is released (Reuters cameran) after being held for eight months without charges. And in Baghdad, a car bomb has taken the life of at least one person and injured at least three others. Also in Baghdad, at least two people have been killed and forty-two wounded as Iraqi Shi'ites were targeted on their return from a pilgrimage. Away from Iraq, Dr. Malcolm Kendall-Smith is now facing a court martial for refusing to deploy to Basra. The prosecution/persecution, sounding a lot like Bully Boy, said that the issue of the legality of the war was "irrelevant." This as "US Faces Charges of Two Massacres of Iraqi Civilians." That's a small snap-shot of where we are as year four of the illegal war of choice begins.
in 1946, the united nations created the human rights commission. with bully boy's favorite reach around john bolton as our ambassador to the un it sees the death of the commission. in its place, a human rights council will be created. the us voted 'no' on this, by the way. from the article:
Many developing nations were critical of the plan for a new rights council, saying Western powers merely wanted to target poor countries and would protect their friends.
to find out what daryl hannah did for world water day click here.
i spent most of the night on the phone including over an hour with kat after i read her post. and i was on the phone with elaine as well and recommend her 'Musings' - highly recommend.
i spent so much time on the phone that was my whole night. so i'll leave it at this for the post tonight.
