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Women criticize Senator Brown’s record

Democrats blast GOP ‘agenda’ on gender issues

A group of 22 female Massachusetts legislators and one Boston city councilor are writing Monday to Senator Scott Brown, saying the Republican has voted against women and they plan to make state voters aware of it.

“We know where you have voted against women on the issues that matter to us most, and we know that you and your Republican party will move to restrict our economic and reproductive rights if you take control of the US Senate and the White House,” they said.

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Do any of these female politicians have an R after their name? Thought not.

Ayanna Pressley was hailed part of the " New Boston" by the press when elected. Nothing " new" about this political stunt of lies and deciet. Shame on her for joining the same old same old. She just lost my vote next election.

When Elizabeth Warren got into this race, the media gushed about what a "different" type of candidate she was. She's not a political insider, they fawned, she's "special." Well, you could have fooled me. Because if her campaign has shown anything, it's that she is absolutely no different than any other entrenched,far-left liberal Democrat pol determined to win at any cost. They can't win on the issues -- because the people don't agree with them on those -- and when the poll numbers reflect this, they resort to the same old dirty politics of personal distruction and distortion. With Barack Obama, anyone who pointed out he had no concrete plan for America was immediately labeled a racist. Now Elizabeth Warren's playing the gender card. She can't beat Scott Brown on policy or even likability, so she's going to try to paint him as some sort of misogynistic Neanderthal who's a "danger" to women. Pathetic. Perhaps if Elizabeth Warren didn't consider herself to be so intellectually superior to us mere mortals she'd be able to see how insulting this manufactured "war on women" strategy is to women voters, and what an incredibly unflattering picture it paints of her as both a candidate and a person.

Kerry Healey could not even get a majority of her caucus to vote for her as a delegate to the RNC. She also lost big time in her race for governor. Now she picks a losing side again. Yes Sen Brown mouthes that he is pro-choice but then gets an 80% rating of congressional support on his votes in Congress with anti-choice groups. He does not tell the group when they endorse him that he emphatically does not share their views but readily accepts their endorsement. He is talking out of both sides of his mouth. Thankfully the women in this state are smart enough to know actions speak louder than words. A vote for Senator Brown is a vote to send reactionary judges to the Supreme Court and to advocate for laws that disturb women's and their significant others private lives. If you want a Republican agenda that restricts the voting public's freedoms he is your man contrary to the folksy image without substance he shows in his ads.

The Republicans continue to cleanse their party of anyone who will not support their plans lock, stock, and barrel. The Republican National Committee threw out Ron Paul Delegates to the Convention after they had legitimately won. The Rules Committee got together changed who could be a delegate and then walked out before any challenge could be made. So Sen Brown if elected will have great pressure to stick to their agenda as he has done a super majority of the time. He is no friend to women who want to participate fully in a free society. Many of his snide remarks about women and their body show he is a closet patriarch.

So here's the Republicans' scenario: Scott Brown is re-elected, this helps the Republicans take control of the Senate, Romney wins the White House, and Brown once again votes for letting your employer decide whether or not you can use your health coverage to get reproductive health services. (For those of you with short memories, this is the Blount-Rubio Amendment that Brown has already voted for in the Senate.) I'm SURE those middle-class women denied this coverage by their employers will be greatly consoled by the fact that Brown has "urged Republicans to be more inclusive and accepting of the prochoice point of view", and by the fact that Brown was the very "first Republican to denounce Congressman Akin of Missouri". Right? GIVE ME A BREAK! Of course, these same women will also be thrilled when Brown votes for Romney's "pro-life" nominees to the Supreme Court. They can hardly wait.

So - Women WILL write a letter on Monday. That means they have not accomplished this feat yet.******************That is akin to OBAMA'S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. He got that because of what he WOULD DO IN THE FUTURE. How is that working out for you.

Great point, NHCabin! Funny how before they even write the letter, they alert the media that they WILL be writing it -- not that it's a shameless PR ploy to boost Warren's sinking campaign or anything...

Excellent Republican research.

Another dishonest headline on a Johnson Demohack propaganda spiel. It was 23 female leftlisters that conjured up the try to add to Lizzy the Harvard Law one-percenter and her charge that the man she fears is at war with her gender. How's about these 23 female hacks checking out Lizzy's record and noting her vote on a Harvard Law faculty tenure vote on one of their gender sharers a few years ago. Lizzy won't say... any more than she has divulged the way she voted while registered as a . . . gasp . . . Republican.... Imagine... Lizzy the wannabe Massachusetts people's U.S. Senate seat absconder was a rightwing zealot!!!! Lizzy the rightwing zealot and fan of Ronny Reagan maybe!!! HOOOOOOOYA!!!!!!!!! Let's see Johnson the psywar wannabe deal with that bit of history.

Oh, don't Glenn Johnson and his Demomob lemmings hate the truth of this comment. Four of them refuse to acknowledge truth about Lizzy the now radical feminist who dares not divulge her votes as a registered Republican or as a Harvard Law faculty member called upon to vote 'aye' or 'nay' that a feminist junior faculty should get tenure. The junior did not... with Lizzy's help??

Really, boatwrote? One party will work for women. The other will not. Guess which is which? If you want to vote against the freedoms women - and many men - have fought hard for, by all means vote for Brown. If not, then vote for Warren. I know which one I'd vote for....

That the Democratic Party continues to portray itself as the "party of women" would be downright laughable if the Dems' record on treatment of women weren't so scary. The Kennedy Family alone ought to be ashamed to even mention the term "women's rights." JFK and RFK left scores of discarded women in their wake. Ted Kennedy killed a girl through his cowardly, selfish desire to save his own skin. Joe Kennedy II maimed a girl for life. Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel murdered the teenaged girl next door. William Kennedy Smith has been accused multiple times of rape and sexual assault. Michael Kennedy was accused of bedding his 14-year-old babysitter. The list goes on... And that's just the Kennedys; space prohibits listing all the women used and abused by Bill Clinton, John Edwards and other Democratic "champions of women's rights." They hypocrisy of groups like NOW is that they throw bags of money at these Democratic slimeballs, all the while looking the other way as they use and abuse women for their own selfish ends. All one has to do is look at the Romney family and the Brown family to know which candidates TRULY respect and value women,and it sure as hell ain't the Democrats!