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Pro-Abortion Group Will Spend $500K Promoting Hillary Clinton in Iowa
Life News ^ | 1/1/08 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 01/01/2008 12:12:15 PM PST by wagglebee

Des Moines, IA (LifeNews.com) -- By the time the janitors sweep the floors after Iowa Democrats conclude their party caucus meetings on Thursday night, a leading pro-abortion group will likely have spent half a million dollars promoting Hillary Clinton. That makes it one of the top handful of groups spending money backing candidates there.

Emily's List, which only backs pro-abortion Democratic women who support partial-birth abortions and making taxpayers fund abortions, has been in the New York senator's corner from the beginning.

The organization is one of many spending considerable sums of money in the first presidential battleground state and new reports indicate it has forked over $300,000 thus far backing Clinton.

Emily's List's “You Go Girl!” campaign is designed to reach women voters in the Midwestern state who have never participated in a caucus before and to motivate them to head to the party caucus and support Clinton.

“Getting someone who has not caucused to go out is the hardest effort,” Maren Hesla, director of the effort, told the New York Times.

The money figures likely won't stop as Hesla told the newspaper, “we're not done spending.”

According to its internal polling, Emily's List says it shows Clinton leading two-to-one over the other candidates among women who have never voted in a caucus before.

The Times reports the pro-abortion group has narrowed down its list to 60,000 names and has been reaching those women with direct mail, emails, and phone-banking in the days leading up to the caucus vote.

A Des Moines Register poll out Tuesday shows 58 percent of likely caucus-goers are women but the Emily's List effort has only put Clinton even with pro-abortion candidate Barack Obama at 32 percent -- lower than what the first major woman candidate for president might expect.

Clinton enjoys more support from women over 55, but she and Obama are even among women between 35 and 54 years old and she trails Obama badly among women under 35 by a 57-15 percentage point margin.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 527groups; abortion; emilyslist; fundingtheleft; hillaryclinton; ia2008; marenhesla; proaborts; prolife
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21 posted on 01/01/2008 1:05:07 PM PST by GloriaJane (http://www.download.com/gloriajane)
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To: wagglebee

Sending a good oldfashioned Druid curse upon all Emily’s List members for the New Year:

May foul bad luck descend upon all your heads, and may you have as many ailments as there will be babies aborted this year in the USA!


22 posted on 01/01/2008 1:32:43 PM PST by Palladin (Cackle..cackle..cackle. Hillary laid another egg.)
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To: RedEyeJack
It would be interesting to know if they gets funds from abortion providers.

Ya think? I bet they might.

23 posted on 01/01/2008 1:37:25 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Candor7

The “Emily” in Emily’s List stands for “Early Money is Like Yeast”. I’m not joking, that’s really what it stands for.

So Emily’s List is a yeast list.

And Hillary is the infection.

Can you imagine the nasty crones that would be present at an Emily’s List meeting? Ugh!!!!


24 posted on 01/01/2008 2:20:34 PM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: wagglebee
Emily's List, which only backs pro-abortion Democratic women who support partial-birth abortions and making taxpayers fund abortions

You know, I don't agree at all with abortions but I just cannot believe the gall of some of the people who think that not only should they be allowed, but I should have to pay for them?

25 posted on 01/01/2008 2:55:49 PM PST by rb22982
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To: wagglebee

It’s for the children.


26 posted on 01/01/2008 3:18:29 PM PST by AliVeritas (ah, the sheer grace! in darkness and concealment, my house being now all stilled.)
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To: potlatch


27 posted on 01/01/2008 8:42:09 PM PST by devolve (---- - Hey Boone! - My bonus check is late again! -)
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To: wagglebee
Pinged from Terri Dailies

8mm


28 posted on 01/02/2008 3:27:07 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: wagglebee

"Ladies - want to rely on abortion as birth control after-the-fact? I'm you're girl!"

29 posted on 01/02/2008 12:36:34 PM PST by redstates4ever
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