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EMILY's List Asks: Define Radical?

Campaign moves into second phase: Highlights radical agenda of Palin's Candidates

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Tuesday, we launched our Sarah Doesn't Speak For Me campaign. On Wednesday, Sarah Palin reacted – lashing out at folks who don't agree with her. But we're pretty sure there's nothing radical about standing up for health care, job creation, and Wall Street reform—especially compared to the truly extreme priorities of Palin’s candidates, like repealing health care reform, and turning back the clock on women's rights.

That's why we're rolling out a new feature of our Sarah Doesn't Speak For Me campaign – highlighting the truly radical things Palin's endorsed candidates have said recently, from calling programs like Medicare "protecting the weak" to making repeal of health care reform their priority.

We're reaching more and more Americans who are saying ENOUGH ALREADY! to Palin's outrageous language, incendiary attacks, and extreme candidates – and YES to the results-focused, determined candidates that EMILY's List supports.

http://sarahdoesntspeakforme.com/realradicals/

On Tuesday, EMILY's List announced the Sarah Doesn't Speak For Me campaign; an opportunity for women – and men! – to let their voices be heard and to reject Palin's extremist candidates and backward-looking agenda. The Sarah Doesn't Speak For Me campaign features a new multi-media interactive website, a page for users to share personal stories, an online get-out-the-vote effort grounded in an online pledge, and information about the radical agenda of Palin's candidates and where they stand on critical issues. Since then, more than 100,000 people have engaged with the campaign.

EMILY's List is the nation's largest resource for women candidates. In the 2007-2008 cycle, EMILY's List raised more than $43 million to support its mission of recruiting and supporting women candidates, helping them build strong campaigns, and mobilizing women voters to turn out and vote. Since its founding in 1985, EMILY's List has worked to elect 80 pro-choice Democratic women to the U.S. House, 15 to the U.S. Senate, nine governors, and hundreds of women to the state legislatures, state constitutional offices, and other key local offices.