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Schriock to Palin: You Don't Stand for My Frontier

WASHINGTON, D.C. – “Sarah Palin talks a good game about ‘grizzly bear moms’ taking the country back – but I come from the West too, and her version of what American women want doesn’t honor the freedom and independence that the women I grew up with in Montana cherish,” said Stephanie Schriock, President of EMILY’s List.

Referring to the “Palin 4” – four Democratic Congresswomen whom Palin displayed on her Facebook page – Schriock continued: “First she puts targets on their back, then she wants the government in their bedrooms – what is Sarah Palin doing to western women?”

“Palin doesn’t seem to trust American women to make their own decisions – though she speaks movingly about her own. I believe all American women are entitled to the freedom and independence I grew up with, and that EMILY’s List endorsed candidates continue to fight for in states across this country.”

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.