Oh, am I tired of Martha McSally and her self-righteous claims of fighting for women's rights. The only thing she's fighting for is a big bite of Koch money and power.
I watch KOLD in Tucson of a morning while getting ready to go to work, and one of the ads that over-saturate the airwaves during this, our silly season, is McSally bragging on her fight for women- which consists of fighting the Pentagon about female soldiers wearing a hijab.
Seriously, you are trying to get the female vote by talking about HAIR? The only difference between a Kardashian and this candidate is that the Kardashian is at least sincere in her vapid shallowness. McSally is taking this tack to manipulate voters, based on agenda-driven market research.
I've been looking for a video of the ad for a while, but the clip below covers the point. The elephant in the room that she ignores of course, is the drastic changes women's economic situations undergo if they DON'T have autonomous control over their reproductive choices.
Ron Barber may pander to the right to keep military contracts here in Tucson, but at least he's not a gender-based quisling.
Maybe we should look at her record on women's reproductive rights....
Feb 26, 2014
Pro-Life McSally Arrives At Third Position on Abortion In Three Years
For Immediate Release: February 26, 2014
Phoenix, AZ–Today, Southern Arizona voters may be surprised to learn that Martha McSally has announced her third position in three years in her work to take away a woman's right to choose. What is her real position, some may ask? Well, it depends upon who is doing the asking.
When Cathi Herrod of the right-wing Center for Arizona Policy asked Martha McSally her position in 2012, McSally was pro-life in all cases with one exception: when abortion is "necessary to prevent the death of the mother." [Center for Arizona Policy, 3/25/12]
Fast forward to 2013, when McSally told Tucson radio journalist John C. Scott (and former moderate Republican lawmaker) that she supports three legal exceptions for abortion: cases of rape, incest, and to protect the life of the mother. Further, she stated that the most important aspect of the issue, in her view, just concerned the federal funding of abortion, which she opposed. [John C. Scott Show, KVOI, 7/12/13]
And now, in 2014, Martha McSally told reporter Ashley Parker of the liberal New York Times that she supports FOUR exceptions to her proposed ban on a woman's right to choose–not the three exceptions she laid out in 2013. McSally's newest answer is that she would allow a woman to choose an abortion if not doing so would negatively impact the health of the mother–an exception she never mentioned to the Center for Arizona Policy or John C. Scott. [New York Times, 2/25/14]
"Everyone knows that Martha McSally dodges and weaves when asked a simple question, like whether she supports a woman's right to choose," said Shasta McManus, executive director, Pima County Democratic Party. "But it also depends on who she is talking to. McSally takes a more conservative position when speaking to conservatives and takes a more moderate position when speaking to the so-called 'Liberal Media.' But McSally isn't completely craven–in every case, she wants to deny women the right to make our own decisions about our reproductive health, just like she came out against health care plans offering birth control coverage to women whose employers objected. Martha McSally owes Southern Arizona a straight answer. "
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