Women Senators Issue Checklist To Discourage Clinton's Female Supporters From Supporting McCain

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Article Date: 19 Jun 2008 - 7:00 PDT

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Ten female Democratic senators on Tuesday released a "checklist for change" that aims to discourage female voters who supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in the presidential primary elections from supporting Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) in the general election, The Hill reports.

The checklist includes ensuring that women receive equal pay; making health care more affordable; keeping jobs in the U.S.; providing benefits for veterans; and protecting the environment. It does not include protecting abortion rights. Democrats later said that pro-abortion rights positions were included in the idea of establishing universal healthcare, according to The Hill (Raju, The Hill, 6/17).

Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer (Calif.), Maria Cantwell (Wash.), Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Mary Landrieu (La.), Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Barbara Mikulski (Md.), Patty Murray (Wash.) and Debbie Stabenow (Mich.) are involved in the effort (Mikulski release, 6/17).

The senators said that the checklist will unite the Democratic Party and that they plan to repeat the checklist on the Senate floor, at campaign rallies and at the Democratic National Convention in August. Mikulski said that the checklist "is a way to show that whether you were for Hillary or whether you were for Barack, that we've come together on this checklist for change" (The Hill, 6/17).

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