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EMILY's List President: Our Stand on Abortion Rights Is Unwavering
By Stephanie Schriock - Politics DailyI enjoyed talking to Eleanor Clift last week about the future of EMILY's List -- not just electing more women, but growing our community of activists and supporters significantly -- doubling and doubling again, as I have pledged. I am confident that this growth will be fueled by our commitment to electing strongly pro-choice Democratic women. But I am deeply concerned that the article suggested a change in our assessment of what it means to be pro-choice. Twenty-five years ago, Ellen Malcolm's visionary leadership established our organization as unwavering in our commitment to abortion rights ...
EMILY's List: Confronting the Growing Ambivalence Over Abortion
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyOne of the issues that arose in a recent e-mail chain among the writers who contribute to WomanUp was regret that an organization like Emily's List, which helps elect Democratic women, only supports candidates who are pro-choice: "I believe there are other issues that are very important to women. So let's say a woman happens to be not pro-choice, but is pro everything else. Why exclude her?" It's a good question, and the answer dates back to the founding of Emily's List in 1985. At the time very few women held public office, and attitudes toward abortion rights divided sharply along political ...
EMILY'S List: 25 Years of Funding Pro-Choice Democratic Women
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyIt's feminist torch-passing time. Ellen Malcolm, 63, the Rolodex-reliant founding president of EMILY's List -- which has bundled $78 million in campaign donations since 1985 and helped elect 95 pro-choice Democratic women to the Senate and House -- gave a rousing valedictory Thursday before embracing her successor. That would be Stephanie Schriock, 37, the tweeting Facebooker who as Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign finance director pushed the Internet envelope to help create donor and social networks that raked in $52 million, and later managed the long-shot victories of Sens. John ...
Ellen Malcolm: A Political Powerhouse is Moving on
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyShe would come into a room, large or small, like a force of nature. Tall, big-boned, imposing, Ellen Malcolm could dominate a ballroom full of political stars with her energy, explosions of intensity, and a voice that could shake the rafters. She could be soft, too, and attentive, and she was, by any measure, a powerhouse in a major stream of Democratic Party politics – she was the mover and shaker, the engine and motor, that helped carry pro-choice female Democratic candidates to victory time and again. With that rather silly name she gave to her organization, EMILY's List (the ...
Ellen Malcolm Steps Down From EMILY's List
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyEllen Malcolm, the founder and long-time president of EMILY's List, announced Wednesday she will retire from day-to-day oversight of the organization that she began nearly 25 years ago. The group, which raises money for pro-choice Democratic female candidates, says it has helped elect 80 members of Congress, 15 senators, nine governors and hundreds of state and local officials since 1985.Malcolm will be replaced by Stephanie Schriock, the chief of staff to Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who also managed Sen. Al Franken's marathon Senate campaign in 2008. The 36-year-old Schriock's tenure will be a ...
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