GOODY TWO SHOES: Is The National Organization For Women For Women? Not This Time, Says The New Agenda.
The New Agenda, a newly formed non-partisan women’s advocacy group, took issue with the Organization for Women's endorsement of Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden in a press release Friday. Noting that since it was founded in 1966 NOW had previously endorsed only four candidates in presidential races, and that each time there was a woman on the ticket:
The endorsement seems all the more puzzling given the fact that the Republican Party is running its first female candidate for Vice-President, Gov. Sarah Palin, and the Green Party is fielding its first all-woman presidential ticket with Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente.
“We find it quite perplexing that NOW has chosen to endorse an all-male ticket after not endorsing recent candidates such as Gov. Bill Clinton, Sen. Al Gore, or Sen. John Kerry,” says The New Agenda co-founder Amy Siskind in the statement.
And in an interview with The Washington Post, Siskind said that the group had had several meetings with high-level McCain campaign staffers and feel their pressing for him to appoint more women in his administration played a role in John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate.
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