Do This For Hillary! Now!
By SusanUnPC on August 3, 2008 at 1:45 PM in GLBT, Gender Bias, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Sexism
Hillary Clinton will be personally handed the results of the IOwnMyVote platform survey, along with a complete list of all of us who have completed the survey.
This platform effort is deeply important to Hillary. If you haven’t completed the survey, please do so today. If you haven’t posted a story about the survey at your own blog, please do so today or tomorrow. If you haven’t e-mailed all of your friends, please do so right away. Please also encourage everyone you know to sign the IOwnMyVote.com pledge. (Of note: We are very pleased that JustSayNoDeal.com has featured the survey on its home page.)
Hillary is not the only key person who will personally receive a copy. Charlie Rangel and Sheila Jackson Lee will also receive copies, delivered directly into their hands. They will all lobby the Platform Committee on our behalf.
It is vital that Hillary, and our other key backers, see as many signatures as possible! She will also see the survey results, complete with bar graphs. (No Quarter will be publishing the bar graphs that display the voting results for each of the 10 measures.)
It is also vital that all of you who can get to Pittsburgh next weekend (August 9-10, 2008), do so. The Platform Committee will be meeting at Pittsburgh’s convention center. We will have precise times and the meeting room location for you very soon. Stay tuned. If we have a polite but persistent group of supporters at the meeting, we stand a greater chance of getting our platform proposals included in the final edition.
The foreign press has featured this platform story more than U.S. media Here’s an excerpt from an excellent piece, “Clinton supporters urge Democratic Party to act on ‘pervasive gender bias’” in The Irish Times:
some of Senator Hillary Clinton’s supporters are pushing for the Democratic Party’s new platform to state that the primary elections “exposed pervasive gender bias in the media” and to call on party leaders to take “immediate and public steps” to condemn future perceived instances of bias.
The push for the plank in the party’s statement of principles reflects a lingering unhappiness over Mrs Clinton’s treatment during the Democratic primary, and over what they say was an inadequate response from party leaders.
Some Clinton supporters have complained of jibes against the New York senator by TV talk show hosts, off-colour novelty items that surfaced during the campaign and incidents such as one where hecklers yelled “Iron my shirt!” at a Clinton rally.
“There were so many examples in the media of sexist comments where we never heard from the party leadership or Barack Obama,” said Stacy Mason, executive director of a political action committee called WomenCount, which claims thousands of members. The group ran newspaper advertisements in the spring urging Mrs Clinton to stay in the contest.
“We’re focused on why the Democratic leadership was so silent about it during the campaign,” Ms Mason said. “It was their obligation to come to the defence of one of their own primary candidates, and they didn’t. They stayed silent during the campaign, and that’s not okay.”
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… Mrs Clinton’s supporters want at least to see parts of her political agenda enshrined in the party platform.
Note the emphasis on “universal healthcare,” which Obama’s campaign has yet to endorse — and the MISCHARACTERIZATION of our efforts by an Obama spokesperson:
That includes the senator’s signature proposal for universal healthcare, a stance that sets up a conflict with the Obama campaign. Where Mrs Clinton would require people to carry health insurance, Mr Obama’s healthcare proposal would mandate coverage only for children – one of the few policy differences between the two that emerged in the course of the Democratic primary.
Clinton supporters who are trying to influence the platform-writing process are working independently of the New York senator and her staff. Heather Higginbottom, an Obama policy aide and a member of the drafting committee, said that Clinton’s official representatives helping to shape the platform have asked neither for a healthcare mandate nor gender-bias language.
“We have talked about healthcare, about sharing the goal of universal coverage. But not about a mandate,” Ms Higginbottom said.
Oh yes we have, Ms. Higginbottom. Go to the survey we have all been publicizing for over a week.
Complete the survey yourself, Ms. Higginbottom.
By the way, Ms. Higginbottom, why are you and Obama so afraid of pushing for universal health care?
It is a bedrock DEMOCRATIC PARTY principle!
That is why WE are all completing the survey.
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