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This comes down to grassroots intensity, Ossoff added on MSNBC Wednesday. The thousands of volunteers and organizers, so much of it led by women who have been pounding the pavement and knocking on doors for months here in Georgia, and its that kind of grassroots momentum that will carry us to victory on June 20.
Handel gained notoriety in 2012, when she took aim at womens health care as an executive at Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The Huffington Post has reported that she quietly drove the charitys controversial decision to cut off grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings because of her own opposition to abortion rights. The Komen organization insisted its decision had nothing to do with abortion politics, but internal emails showed Handel instigated the move and strategized how to spin it because wanted to break ties with Planned Parenthood.
Handels miscalculation at Komen may damage her in the race against Ossoff. Georgia voters anecdotally say that even Republican women are turned off by Handels move against cancer screenings.
Handel boasts endorsements from several anti-abortion groups, and has made her position clear on Planned Parenthood funding, which is in jeopardy in the Republican-led Congress. Ossoff, a former documentary filmmaker and congressional aide to Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson (D), supports abortion rights, birth control access and federal funding for Planned Parenthood. If he manages to defeat Handel in June, he would be the first Democrat to win in the suburban Atlanta district since the 1970s.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund has launched a six-figure campaign in support of Ossoff.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jon-ossoff-women_us_58f78eb4e4b0de5bac431690
JHan
(10,173 posts)Cha
(297,200 posts)Women!
Handel gained notoriety in 2012, when she took aim at womens health care as an executive at Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The Huffington Post has reported that she quietly drove the charitys controversial decision to cut off grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings because of her own opposition to abortion rights. The Komen organization insisted its decision had nothing to do with abortion politics, but internal emails showed Handel instigated the move and strategized how to spin it because wanted to break ties with Planned Parenthood.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jon-ossoff-women_us_58f78eb4e4b0de5bac431690
Mahalo for this, JI7
William769
(55,146 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)When that gets out more, Ossoff will get even more of the women's vote!
quakerboy
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delisen
(6,043 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Can't really tell based on a strong advocacy of women's reproductive health care issues, and calling them health and civil rights issues, instead of a "social issue."