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EMILY’s List Calls on Palin, Emmer, Bachmann to Denounce Sexist, Ugly Video

WASHINGTON, D.C. – EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, today released this statement denouncing a video that was posted by Minnesota Republicans. To watch the video, click here.

“Republicans in Minnesota released an offensive, demeaning video yesterday on YouTube titled ‘Republican Women vs. Democrat Women,’ which showed photo stills of women aligned with both parties to the songs Shes’s a Lady and Who Let the Dogs Out respectively. The video was quickly taken down but not before EMILY’s List and many others had a chance to view the offensive video. Republicans are unapologetic about the video – which is unacceptable at the same time that they are asking for women’s votes. This juvenile and offensive attitude toward women is demeaning to elected officials – regardless of party.”

“If Republicans in Minnesota, like Michele Bachmann and Tom Emmer, and national leaders like Sarah Palin - who has endorsed both of those candidates and predicted a ‘rising tide’ of women voters this cycle - think that this disgusting video is an acceptable way to treat women and women leaders in the state and across the country then their silence will speak volumes. However, if they believe as we do, that women voters and women in office deserve to be respected, then they should join EMILY’s List in denouncing this video.”

Yesterday 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.

EMILY’s List is the nation’s largest resource for women in politics. 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.