DeLauro, Feminist Congresswoman, Will Endorse Today
By MARK PAZNIOKAS | Courant Staff Writer
February 2, 2008
U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, whose job before Congress was helping to elect Democratic women as the director of the influential feminist group EMILY's List, is endorsing Barack Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The Clinton campaign will counter the endorsement by DeLauro, whose husband was the pollster for President Clinton, with a "women's tour" across Connecticut on Sunday led by Ellen Malcolm, the president and founder of EMILY's List.
The endorsement by DeLauro, D-3rd District, is part of a flurry of last-minute moves that will culminate in Connecticut appearances by Clinton and Obama on Monday, the day before Democrats vote in Super Tuesday presidential primaries and caucuses here and in 21 other states.
Obama will be joined late Monday afternoon by Sen. Ted Kennedy at a rally in downtown Hartford at the XL Center, the new name of the Civic Center. Clinton is expected to campaign Monday in either New Haven County or Fairfield County, though nothing was settled Friday night.
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Ron Howard, the director, will campaign for Clinton this morning in Stamford, while DeLauro endorses Obama and U.S. Reps. John Larson and Chris Murphy lead an Obama rally at the Old State House in Hartford.
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DeLauro worked closely with Malcolm in 1989 and 1990 at EMILY's List, an organization that helps elect Democratic women who favor abortion rights by providing them with the seed money that often makes candidates credible. EMILY is an acronym for the philosophy behind the group, "early money is like yeast" — it helps raise the dough.
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