Message from NOW PAC
Chair Kim Gandy
From the Web,
February 4, 2008
In a few hours, at 4:15 am to be
exact, I'm headed out in the cold to yet another airport, this time to
Chattanooga and then Knoxville, Tennessee to rally and speak for Hillary
Clinton.
I'd go anywhere, any time, to shout from the rooftops that Hillary Clinton is
the right choice for women, for our families, for our communities and for our
future.
Here is why I care so much:
Hillary Clinton is a national leader of the highest order, with the strength and
determination and experience to deliver real change to our country. She
has been a leader on women's rights and civil rights for over 30 years.
It is of special importance to me that Hillary is an unparalleled champion for
women's reproductive rights, justice and health. In fact, I've just signed
a
letter from many leaders: Martha Burk, Gloria Feldt, Cecelia Fire
Thunder, Lulu Flores, Ellen Malcolm, Irene Natividad, Ellie Smeal, Gloria
Steinem, and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones on why Hillary is the best choice for
those of us who care so deeply about these issues.
Hillary has been through fire and emerged stronger with each challenge.
She can take anything the Republicans can dish out, and give it back double.
The Democrats need her, the country needs her, and she needs your vote on
Tuesday.
Make no mistake, Hillary Clinton is the strongest candidate to win in November,
and to set our country right. She beat the Republicans in two landslide
elections, despite predictions that she couldn't win in upstate and rural New
York. And it will take someone with her economic and national security
strengths to beat John McCain. We know she can deliver on Day One -- from
getting our troops out of Iraq, to fixing the shattered economy and the mortgage
crisis, to winning health care that covers every single person in this country.
Please vote on Tuesday for Hillary Clinton, and if you haven't done it already,
please email your friends and contacts in the Super Tuesday states and tell them
that:
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from her earliest days advising battered women, helping abused children, and
providing free legal services to the poor,
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to her time in the White House advocating for universal healthcare,
championing the S-CHIP (State Child Health Insurance) program, and helping
to pass the Violence Against Women Act,
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to her service as a U.S. Senator, standing strong for reproductive rights
and writing legislation to expand contraceptive access, helping win approval
of emergency contraception, sponsoring equal pay legislation, and speaking
out on the floor against the nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to
the Supreme Court, specifically saying that they would damage Roe v. Wade
if confirmed. She was right, and I know we can count on her to
nominate pro-women, pro-choice judges to the courts at every level.
She's always stood up for us, and now
it's time for us to stand up for her with our vote and say "I'm Ready for
Hillary."
I'm ready.
P.S. Robin Morgan's terrific new essay "Goodbye
To All That (#2)" calls out the stereotypes, double standards and toxic
viciousness against Hillary Clinton -- Our President, Ourselves -- and she
concludes: "Me, I'm voting for Hillary not because she's a woman-but
because I am."
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