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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 10:41 AM
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They Won't Stand on Common Ground -LAT (CWA)
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"We're not just anti-liberal. We put principle above all," says chief counsel Jan LaRue. "We hold anyone's feet to the fire if we think that they're compromising on principle."

That unflinching strategy — plus an $11-million annual budget, more than $200,000 in political action money raised last year and 500,000 members ready to flood Washington with letters, e-mails and personal visits — has begun to make the once-marginal group a player to reckon with.
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What makes Concerned Women for America increasingly hard to ignore, however, is not so much its message as the muscle behind it.

The key is its ability to generate floods of mail and personal visits to politicians from activist members and a cadre of citizen lobbyists — women who voluntarily come to Washington once a month to lobby for Concerned Women for America's causes.

"The power comes from the lobbying presence on the Hill and the women who come to Washington every month," says Michael Schwartz, who recently left the group to work as chief of staff for Sen.-elect Tom Coburn (R-Okla.).

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-women27dec27,1,6436638.story?coll=la-news-politics-national
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cap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 10:47 AM
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1. so how's their campaign against women in combat doing these days?
hmmmmmm????

A big silence. If we took women out of roles where they are exposed to combat, it would weaken an already understaffed military?
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 11:38 AM
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2. Grrlz, why aren't we doing this? n/t
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