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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI guess Emily's List doesn't give a rat's ass about 2014.
From an email I received from Emily's List:
Ahhh, President's Day: The day we honor our Founding Father George Washington.
And sometimes Abraham Lincoln.
And really all of the 43 men who have ever held the title of President of the United States. (Yes, even Millard Fillmore, Chester A. Arthur and Rutherford B. Hayes.)
You know what's missing from that list, right? So do we.
2016 is the year we'll finally put a woman in the White House. Make a special President's Day contribution to EMILYs List's Madam President fund now.
There's a deep bench of qualified Democratic women to run for President in 2016. EMILY's List is fully dedicated to making sure they run and making sure they win.
We know it's not going to be easy. We know the Republicans are going to say anything and spend anything to stop us.
But we also know that the country is ready for a Madam President, and we are, too.
Celebrate President's Day the right way: Make a donation to the Madam President fund now. Let's get to work to make 2016 the year we finally shatter the glass ceiling.
Happy President's Day!
-EMILY's List
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)that women are encouraging and empowering women?
RandySF
(58,874 posts)Kay Hagan and Jean Shaheen are fighting for their lives while Alison Lundgren Grimes is trying to topple McConnell. So don't play the gender card with me.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Office? You don't think that's empowering and encouraging more women to participate? Ask Black people how it felt just before Barack Obama became President....did it make them pay more or less attention to politics?
WE are for the first time....after nearly 100 YEARS after we were given the right to vote...a woman is FAR and away the poll sitter for that next time....You don't think that will make MORE women become involved even in the near future?
More women involved and participating? "That's a good thing..."!
sheshe2
(83,773 posts)Our Voice, We Vote!
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)That is weird.
No wait, it's that other thing. Totally normal.
If you visit their website they have plenty of info on the 2014 elections.
Bryant
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)Now there may have been a potential move correlating birth control, abortion, and the large number of mattress sales on President's day, but I'll cut them some slack.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)women that are up for re-election, re-elected this year. Once re-elected, those women will form our bench for 2016.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)RandySF
(58,874 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)It is President's Day today - ONE DAY out of 365.
There are plenty of other days to fund raise for 2014.
Most folks can walk and chew gun at the same time.
To say that Emily's List doesn't care about 2014 is over-the-top and insulting.
MADem
(135,425 posts)The website goes out of the way to make it easy for people to support candidates in their own states: http://emilyslist.org/content/govs-hp?ws=hp
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)Yeah, they try to get more women elected. That's kinda their mission. You seriously have a problem with that? Wow.
Editing to clarify:
From their website, under Our Mission,
"EMILYs List elects pro-choice Democratic women to office."
So no, it's not regardless of policy, but yes, they do support women candidates
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)and so it begins....soon we will all be "misandrists" (or man-haters) because we voted for a woman...
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)but gender isn't the person's agenda or their willingness and ability to implement it.
Not having a bias for women isn't opposing them, I care zero percent about the gender of a politician. I don't see the point, never did when most were wondering who "the right man for the job" was either.
JI7
(89,250 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)They're flogging the hedges for a specific fund, that's what this sentence is about:
Celebrate President's Day the right way: Make a donation to the Madam President fund now.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)was in support of Hillary Clinton is my guess....
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Just wondering?
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Cause his terms weren't consecutive. So 43 men have held the office but Pres Obama is the 44th president.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)So, he is counted only once.
Can't remember off the top of my head who it was.
So, there have only been 43 individual men.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)but he does count as two presidents (nos. 22 and 24, to be precise).
MADem
(135,425 posts)Go look up "Grover Cleveland" and all will become clear to you.
brooklynite
(94,581 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)With EMILY's list focusing on the Presidency on President's Day. I also disagree that if someone dares to think about 2016, they by definition are saying they don't care about 2014. Most people who are politically involved enough that they would donate to EMILY's list are likely to be savvy enough to know 2014 is very important, too.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)I got so pissed off when Groundhog Day shared the day of the Superbowl.
I mean, let's focus on the fu*king Superbowl, not what's happening six weeks from now!