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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/274318-bill-clinton-to-headline-emilys-list-awards-gala
Former President Bill Clinton is delivering the keynote address during EMILY's List's 31st annual dinner and awards gala.
We are thrilled that President Bill Clinton will be able to speak to our community about the need for womens leadership in 2016, said Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILYs List, in a statement Friday. "President Clinton has a long history of advocating for women in politics from the top of the ticket down.
tblue37
(65,547 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,267 posts)samnsara
(17,660 posts)...headlined by a man? I love bill WAY more than I even like that other guy but neither should be heading up a womens conference!
LisaM
(27,850 posts)It was also 18 months ago.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)bin, what's your angle in pretending this irrelevant past event is somehow meaningful? You're kind of behind events also.
The Detroit gathering was being boycotted by virtually all prominent women leaders for good reason. And now faced with a huge disaster, THE ORGANIZERS ARE BACKPEDALING on their divisiveness, renegotiating and begging a few women with names to attend to save it. One or two are, for the sake of women, not the organizers.
And now it'll only be a smaller, totally needless disaster. I wouldn't attend if someone gave me plane and hotel tickets and seats up front.
Voltaire2
(13,259 posts)LisaM
(27,850 posts)I know what you're trying to make comparisons too, but it's really not the same thing.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,358 posts)Never mind it was a "keynote address"
But food.
There will be food vendors at the upcoming convention. Does that help? Or does it have to include a salad?
LisaM
(27,850 posts)Not the same thing.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I'd try to force a tenuous, subjective similarity too if my sacred cow and biases depended on doing as such, regardless of of the petulance of whether you had a salad or not.
progressoid
(50,020 posts)I don't like eggs on my salad.
dsc
(52,173 posts)LisaM
(27,850 posts)I probably need to step away from this thread right now, because it's clearly done with an intent to disrupt!
ismnotwasm
(42,023 posts)melman
(7,681 posts)No hashtags? No t-shirts even!
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,358 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)you don't have to be sad
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,358 posts)JI7
(89,289 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,254 posts)"This announcement sends the wrong message to women everywhere. We have reached out to the organizers of the Women's Convention directly to share our surprise and disappointment, and to offer our help to strengthen the program. We have more women leaders in elected office than ever before, and they are forcibly leading the resistance against Trump and his allies in Congress who are intent on attacking women. EMILYs List is proud to have supported many of those women every step of the way, and we know that there is a tidal wave of rising stars coming behind them. The choice of Senator Sanders sends the wrong message."
http://www.emilyslist.org/news/entry/emilys-list-statement-on-bernie-sanders-planned-appearance-at-the-womens-co
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,358 posts)We must have hit critical mass sometime right before Bernie was invited.