NEW: Over 300 Women Join to Launch ‘Women for Cicilline’

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

GoLocalProv News Team

On the heels of endorsements from two powerful national women’s groups, the Cicilline for Congress campaign rolled out a “Women for Cicilline” Leadership Team consisting of over three hundred women from every city and town in the First District. Also, the campaign announced the first of several Women Taking Action house parties. Starting today, women volunteers across CD1 will be hosting their friends and neighbors for “action parties” where they will call women voters in their communities and write personal postcards to them to spread the message of exactly what is at stake in this election.

“What the Republicans have tried to do to women these last 18 months has been completely outrageous,” said Congressman David Cicilline. “From voting to defund Planned Parenthood and undermine access to contraception to blocking legislation that would help women achieve equal pay for equal work and failing to support stronger protections under the Violence Against Women Act, they have been waging an all-out assault on women. I am proud to have the endorsement of Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America and I am proud to stand up for women every day.”

Both national women’s groups have endorsed David in part because he is the only person in either the primary or the general election they trust to defend women’s rights. “With women’s rights under attack, we need someone we can always count on to protect a woman’s right to choose…” added Nancy Keenan, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

The first “Women Taking Action” house party will be tonight in Middletown.

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Comments:

Charles Drago

7:09pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Apparently at least 300 women are less concerned with the manners in which David Cicilline rained economic and educational ruin and repeatedly lied to thousands upon thousands of women, men, and children, and more concerned with hearing what they want to hear from this serial liar.

And they ain't heard nothin' yet!

David Allen

7:51pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Poor pathetic Cicilline. The Doherty campaign launched this effort months and months ago. Like his performance in Congress, Cicilline is not a leader, but a follower and the state deserves better.

Sad, pathetic Cicilline. Even his pals at Politifact called him a liar.

Joseph Davis

2:18am on Thursday, August 16, 2012

I suppose if you can buy into the lie that abortion is a form of healthcare than the Cicilline lies are easy to swallow.

Patrick Boyd

8:10am on Thursday, August 16, 2012

What Cicilline forgets to mention about the Violence Against Women thing is that they also tried to bring illegals into the mix. Maybe THAT'S why the GOP wasn't in favor of it.

Common Sense RI

9:29am on Thursday, August 16, 2012

The "Hands off Medicare" sign in the picture is funny. Cici undoubtdly supports Obamacare and that law cut $700 billion from the program so basically he is either a liar or is completely opposed to his party on that issue. I wonder which one it is.

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