In an article today on how Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has become an issue in congressional races nationwide, Washington Post reporters Mary Ann Akers and Paul Kane noted the letter that a group of 75 10th District women sent to GOP Rep. Mark Kirk last week. The letter -- posted by Progress Illinois -- stated: "While some of us supported Hillary Clinton's candidacy for President and believed that her election would be a victory for women across the country, Sarah Palin's slim qualifications and radical right-wing views would only set back the causes we hold dear."
From the Post article:
[S]ome Democrats hope to use Palin, who is very popular among conservatives, against Republicans in swing districts.
"There is nothing encouraging about Palin's extreme political views, including her opposition to a woman's right to choose even in the cases of incest and rape, equal pay for equal work, and gun control," wrote 75 female voters to Rep. Mark Steven Kirk (R-Ill.), a moderate facing a potentially tough reelection in Illinois. The women, many of whom supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in the Democratic presidential primary, accused Kirk of not "standing up for women in the 10th District."
"Your support for Sarah Palin shows that you are more concerned with supporting the Republican Party and continuing with more of the same disastrous policies of the last 8 years," the letter said.
Stay tuned for similar lines of attack in other congressional races.
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