Tea Party
In Kansas, Secrecy, Control, and Limited Participation Are Hallmarks Of Brownback's Town Halls
by Kari Ann Rinker, National Organization for Women (NOW), Kansas
October 30, 2011 - 9:43pm (Print)
Governor Brownback's policies are designed to favor the likes of the Kochs, not the kids of Kansas. His "town halls" are further proof of the control that our governor demands over every interaction, every policy and every man, woman and child within Kansas boundaries.
Milwaukee County Prosecutor Investigates Claims of Anti-Choice Voter Fraud
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
August 3, 2011 - 9:40pm (Print)
a Milwaukee County prosecutor is examining allegations that the anti-choice group Wisconsin Right to Life and Family Action offered gift cards valued at $25 to $75 to volunteers who hit targets for persuading voters to fill out absentee ballot applications in the recall primary elections held last month.
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Milwaukee County Prosecutor Investigates Claims of Anti-Choice Voter Fraud
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
August 3, 2011 - 9:40pm (Print)
A Milwaukee county prosecutor is examining allegations that the anti-choice group Wisconsin Right to Life and Family Action offered gift cards valued at $25 to $75 to volunteers who hit targets for persuading voters to fill out absentee ballot applications in the recall primary elections held last month.
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How Abortion Caused the Debt Crisis
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
August 1, 2011 - 6:22am (Print)
Radical right wing populism in it modern form got its start opposing desegregation and reproductive rights. But now it's grown in size and power, and the radicals brought this country to the brink with a manufactured debt crisis.
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Record Shows Tea Party Is Really Just Republicans
What's the Matter With Kansas? Hint: It's Not About Abortion
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
July 2, 2011 - 9:34am (Print)
Kansas facing rising rates of poverty, extreme poverty, child poverty and other problems, even outpacing the nation as a whole in terms of poverty. But for Brownback and the extremists in the Kansas legislature, its all-about-abortion all the time.
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GOP Salivates at Prospect of Cutting Funds for World's Poorest Women
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
May 27, 2011 - 10:39am (Print)
The Republican/Tea Party majorities in the House of Representatives are, literally, salivating at the prospect of cutting aid to the world's poorest women.
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Afternoon Roundup: Kanye West's Abortion Tweet Annoys Lily Allen (And Many Others)
by Amie Newman
February 24, 2011 - 7:44pm (Print)
Kanye West's bad-mood-producing abortion tweet; NYC's racist, anti-choice billboard; the Tea Party's "we're not interested in the culture wars" culture-war agenda setting thus far; and midwifery saves money!
New GOP Hostage: End Family Planning or Shut Down the Government
by Will Neville, Advocates for Youth
February 11, 2011 - 7:58am (Print)
Funding cuts proposed by the GOP would eliminate ALL current year funding for Title X family planning programs, devastating the nation's health care system and (conveniently for ideologues) crippling Planned Parenthood clinics everywhere.
As They Seek to Ban Abortion, GOP Also Moves to Eliminate Title X Family Planning Program
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
February 9, 2011 - 5:11pm (Print)
As members of the anti-choice Republican and Tea Party House majority debated allowing women to die to salve the consciences of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and using the tax code to virtually eliminate insurance coverage for abortion in the United States, they also took another brazen step by moving to dismantle Title X, the nation's family planning program.
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