WCLA PAC ENDORSES JULIE GOLDBERG
for NYS Senate! District #38
(Westchester County: Town of Ossining (includes the Village of Ossining & Briarcliff Manor) & Rockland County: Towns of Clarkstown, Orangetown & Ramapo (including Nyack, Suffern, Spring Valley, & New City.)
IT IS TIME to elect a REAL Reproductive Rights Advocate to represent the New York State 38th Senate District. Julie Goldberg is THAT Person!
Julie is a 100% pro-choice, outspoken advocate of women’s reproductive rights.
In sharp contrast, her opponent, the incumbent, is just pretending to walk the walk. He has stood as a major roadblock in advancing women’s health care.
When elected,Juliewill dedicate herself to the passage of:
The Reproductive Health Act, which will guarantee access to safe and legal abortion in New York no matter what the US Supreme Court does to Roe.
The New York State Fair Pay Act which will establish that it is discriminatory and unlawful to pay different wages to employees doing the same job on the basis of sex, race, or national origin.
WE MUST STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR NY WOMEN.
The sitting president and anti-choice Republican-controlled Congress now in Washington DC are committed to stripping women of all of our constitutional rights to control our own bodies – those very rights that were acknowledged by US Supreme Court decisions in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. The president’s nominee for the US Supreme Court is an outspoken opponent of abortion rights and is committed to overturning Roe v. Wade.
WE MUST DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO PROTECT NY.
That starts with defeating Julie’s OPPONENT in the NYS Primary on September 13th.
ABOUT JULIE’S OPPONENT: HER OPPONENT is a co-founding member of the so-calIed Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) in 2011. This groupliterally stripped the majority away from the Democrats in the State Senate by throwing their voting power in with the Republicans and sharing power with them — all the while deceiving their own constituents by not telling the voters about their slight-of-hand actions.
As co-founder of the IDC, her Opponent blocked all progressive legislation including reproductive health bills from coming to the floor of the New York State Senate for a vote.
VOTE for JULIE GOLDBERG ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH!
(This Democratic Primary is on a Thursday, not Tuesday!)
By supporting pro-choice candidates in your state and local elections, you can make New York a Reproductive Rights Sanctuary and protect our state against Trump attacks.
WCLA PAC ENDORSES ALESSANDRA BIAGGI for NYS Senate NYS Senate District #34
(Pelham, parts of Mt. Vernon, & parts of the Bronx)
IT IS TIME to elect a REAL Reproductive Rights Advocate to represent the New York State 34th Senate District. Alessandra Biaggi is THAT Person!
Alessandra is an outspoken champion of women’s reproductive rights. She is a 100% pro-choice advocate.
When elected – unlike her opponent, the incumbent – Alessandrawill dedicate all her efforts to the passage of:
The Reproductive Health Act, which will guarantee access to safe and legal abortion in New York no matter what the US Supreme Court does to Roe. Alessandra stands with the women of New York in our quest to guarantee all women all the rights that should be guaranteed to us under Roe v. Wade but are not now under New York State Law.
The New York State Fair Pay Act which would establish that it is discrimination and unlawful to pay different wages to employees doing the same job on the basis of sex, race, or national origin. The bill would protect workers who want to ensure that they are being paid fairly, including prohibiting their employers from taking action against employees who discuss their wages.
Alessandrawill work to:
Further reform how sexual harassment claims are reported and investigated, including creating a truly independent body to investigate claims of sexual harassment, expanding protections for victims to ensure that they are not pressured into non-disclosure agreements, and adding sex and gender to the list of classes protected in the State Constitution from discrimination.
Expand access to child care, including providing more subsidized child care and helping districts expand to full-day kindergarten programs.
WE MUST STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR NY WOMEN.
The sitting president and anti-choice Republican-controlled Congress now in Washington DC are committed to stripping women of all of our constitutional rights to control our own bodies – those very rights that were acknowledged by US Supreme Court decisions in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. The president’s nominee for the US Supreme Court is an outspoken opponent of abortion rights and is committed to overturning Roe v. Wade.
WE MUST DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO PROTECT NY.
That starts with defeating Alessandra’s OPPONENT in the NYS Primary on September 13th.
ABOUT ALESSANDRA’S OPPONENT: HER OPPONENT created the so-calIed Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) in 2011, and took in 7 other rogue Democrats. This groupliterally stripped the majority away from the Democrats in the State Senate by throwing their voting power in with the Republicans and sharing power with them — all the while deceiving their own constituents by not telling the voters about their slight-of-hand actions. Her Opponent then anointed himself King of the IDC which hasempowered many of the very Republican State Senators who lead the charge to elect Donald Trump.
As the creator and head of the IDC, her Opponent single-handily blocked all progressive legislation including reproductive health bills from coming to the floor of the New York State Senate for a vote.
VOTE for ALESSANDRA BIAGGI ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH!
(This Democratic Primary is on a Thursday, not Tuesday!)
By supporting pro-choice candidates in your state and local elections, you can make New York a Reproductive Rights Sanctuary and protect our state against Trump attacks.
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WCLA PAC ENDORSES SHELLEY MAYER for NYS Senate District 37*
SPECIAL ELECTION
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
SHELLEY MAYER – OUR CHOICE FOR NY STATE SENATE! <>Shelley is 100% pro-choice and has spent both her professional career and private life battling for women to have unimpeded access to comprehensive healthcare including abortion and contraception, regardless of age, race, class, status, geography or ability to pay.
<>Shelley supports the Reproductive Health Act and the Comprehensive Contraceptive Coverage Act, and has voted for the passage of both while in the Assembly. As a State Senator, she will continue the fight to make these two bills New York State law.
<>Shelley is committed to the funding of our health centers and Planned Parenthood.
<>She is an outspoken advocate for gender equality, equal pay, and an end to sexual harassment and abuse.
<>Shelley has signed a pledge promising NOT to join the IDC*!
<>Shelley is rated A+ by WCLA – Choice Matters!
IN SHARP CONTRAST, her Opponent is Anti-Choice and puts Big Business before people – AND WILL BE ONE MORE VOTE FOR THE PARTY OF TRUMP IN ALBANY!
<>This Opponent refuses to support the Reproductive Health Act which would remove abortion from New York’s penal code, put it in the health code, and provide women with the 21st century healthcare we deserve.
<>This Opponent doesn’t believe that health insurance plans need to cover contraceptives. INSTEAD, she believes the insured woman should pay extra, out of her own pocket, every month. (That would be a “no” to the Comprehensive Contraceptive Coverage Act then…??)
<>This Opponent thinks that the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby is “no issue”. That decision allows corporations to claim so-called religious convictions in order to refuse to provide contraception as part of their health insurance plans. (Remember, businesses make a conscious decision to incorporate, giving up any ownership by individuals, to gain tax breaks and avoid liability.) This Opponent thinks this is “no issue”, allowing corporations to refuse to provide contraception as part of the health insurance plans.
<>This Opponent refuses to take a stand on the funding of stem cell research and family planning.
This Opponent will govern with the Party of Trump and the IDC.
WCLA – Choice Matters & WCLA PAC respectively have rated and/or endorsed the candidates based upon their positions on a woman’s right to choose. These ratings have been made based upon this year’s process & the 2017 and 2016 process and questionnaires.
*What comprises NYS Senate District #37? Bedford, Eastchester, Harrison, Mamaroneck, North Castle, Rye (City & Town), and parts of New Rochelle, White Plains and Yonkers.The 37th district is incredibly gerrymandered to favor Republicans.
**Why a Special Election? This Special Election was called after then-Senator George Latimer was elected to be Westchester’s County Executive in November 2017. Latimer represented the 37th Senate District prior to the November election.
***What is the IDC? The IDC (so-called “Independent Democratic Conference”) is a group of 8 rogue Democrats. This group of 8 have taken the majority away from the duly elected Democrats and given it to the Party of Trump, the Republicans. The IDC literally stripped the majority away from the Democrats in the Senate by throwing their voting power in with the Republicans — All the while deceiving their own constituents by not telling the voters about their slight-of-hand actions on Election Day, or any other day. Click here to see the names of the 8 IDC members. These fake Dems deliberately catapulted the Party of Trump into the majority. No progressive legislation can come to the floor of the Senate until these 8 return to the Democratic Caucus, or are replaced.
Reproductive freedom in the United States has been under siege for years. Since November, state governments have been passing abortion restrictions at a record speed. Every new regulation passed further limits what was once a recognized Constitutional right – the right for every woman to be able to have a safe, legal abortion. Ironically, these regulations – which according to Roe v. Wade are unconstitutional – are being passed in the name of protecting the health and safety of women. In reality they are endangering women by forcing them to return to back alley abortions – all at a time when Trump has promised to overturn Roe.
Earlier this month the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a law suit in the Louisiana District Court challenging the onerous regulations that serve only to impede access to abortion care.
Louisiana could be Any State, USA. Only one year ago, the US Supreme Court affirmed that a similar Texas abortion restriction was unconstitutional because the burdens imposed on abortion access outweighed the so-called benefits conferred by such action.
Under the guise of “health and safety,” Louisiana is again trying to pass a version of the Texas T.R.A.P. law, but now we have a new anti-choice Supreme Court Justice. T.R.A.P., Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers, is exactly that. These bills target abortion providers with a series of arduous requirements that affect every aspect of the medical care being provided. The restrictions are issue-specific: they are only being applied to abortion providers, not to any other low-risk healthcare providers. Abortion providers and their facilities are already subject to the State’s medical licensing laws so these bills are further unwarranted.
These new regulations are not structured to make the medical procedure safer. The sole goal is to close clinics, thereby making safe and legal abortion access impossible. As Whole Woman’s Health (2016) clarified, states may not infringe on Americans’ constitutional right to abortion by subjecting it to sham medical regulations and by pressuring abortion facilities to close.
Louisiana is not the only State crafting this type of deceptive legislation. It is happening across the country, in every state.
The threat to abortion access is real and only proliferating. Under this administration and with a new Supreme Court justice changing the balance of the Court, no previous decision is safe.
We need a state that is committedto being a reproductive rights sanctuary – a safe zone where any woman can safely, swiftly and legally terminate her pregnancy.
You might believe that New York is already that state, but in reality our state has only become less friendly to reproductive rights as time has passed. Our abortion law is arcane, and still in the penal code. It was passed in 1970 and has never been updated to include 21st century medical care or the full constitutional protection guaranteed by Roe.53% of NY counties have no abortion clinics. If a woman’s health is at risk or something goes wrong in her pregnancy after 24 weeks, she must seek care outside of NY because State law doesn’t allow a doctor to provide abortion coverage. Where will she go when Roe is overturned? We need New York State to be a leader again. To accomplish that, we must pass the Reproductive Health Act.
But…we have a serious roadblock…the IDC (Independent Democratic Caucus). The IDC stands in the way of passing reproductive justice legislation in New York State. The eight state senators who comprise the IDC will not allow such legislation to come to the floor of the Senate. Instead, they govern with the Party of Trump! As long as the IDC exists there will be no reproductive justice in our state.
Help us to remove this roadblock. Help us get the IDC members to return to the Democratic Caucus or vote them out of office.
Let’s make NY the progressive state it once was. Let’s protect the reproductive rights for all women.
Join Us Thursday, July 13th,
for knocking on doors and canvasing in Ossining!
Meet up at 5 p.m.
First Village Coffee
123 Main Street
(across from the Post Office)
Ossining, NY 10562
We are targeting all 8 IDC* districts beginning with NYS Senate District #38, David Carlucci’s district.
Why start with Carlucci’s District?
He is one of the original 4 founding members of the IDC, AND he joined immediately upon being elected to his very first term. Carlucci started betraying his constitutents on Day One of his first term in the NYS Senate.
Our Purpose:
To educate voters about the IDC and their State Senator!
fyi: The IDC is blocking all progressive legislation including the Reproductive Health Act, Comprehensive Contraceptive Coverage Act, and Contingency funding for Planned Parenthood from coming to the floor of the NYS Senate, INCLUDING a New York State bill that would force Trump to disclose his taxes.
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Clearly Choice Matters’ expose of the IDC’s anti-choice actions as well as their tactics of obstruction of all progressive legislation is taking its toll.
They just sent out a mailing implying that their 8 rogue members were endorsed by Planned Parenthood — NOT!
The truth is: 1. Planned Parenthood had nothing to do with the mailer. 2. The 8 IDC members stopped the Reproductive Health Act & the Comprehensive Contraception Coverage Act from coming to the floor for a vote. 3. The IDC members did nothing to advance the Reproductive Health Act and Comprehensive Contraception Coverage Act to the floor, despite these bills having bipartisan sponsorship and support – BUT the mailer falsely implies that IDC members successfully passed both bills. 4. In addition, the IDC members REFUSED to support a bill that would have provided contingency funding to Planned Parenthood.
Call All 8 IDC members & tell them to stop lying!
Click 8 NYS Democrats for their names & telephone numbers!
fyi: The IDC is blocking all progressive legislation including the Reproductive Health Act, Comprehensive Contraceptive Coverage Act, and Contingency funding for Planned Parenthood from coming to the floor of the NYS Senate, INCLUDING a New York State bill that would force Trump to disclose his taxes.
On April 4, 2017, NYS Senator Persaud introduced an amendment to the NYS budget that proposed emergency funding for Planned Parenthood if and when the federal government cut funding to the organization.
In her comments, Senator Persaud detailed the need for the services and the people who rely on them.
All 8 IDC members voted against the amendment to fund Planned Parenthood.
What does that mean? It means that they – joining forces with the Republicans – voted to deny women necessary healthcare services.
All 8 IDC members voted against women of all colors; against women of all ages; women of all religious affiliations; against women of all ethnicities – they voted against all women.
The IDC members clearly displayed their total disregard for the women of New York State!
** 8 NYS Democrats, who comprise the IDC (the so-called Independent Democratic Conference), have aligned themselves with the Republican Party of Trump, and govern with them. They have deliberately turned the duly elected Majority Party, the Democratic Party, into the Minority Party, and have catapulted the Party of Trump, the Republican Party, into the majority. No progressive legislation can come to the floor of the Senate until these 8 return to the Democratic Caucus, or are replaced.
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This time we are living in is much like a game of Three Card Monty.
It is easy to be distracted. While we focus our attention on Trump, we are taking our eyes off of Albany.
Right now, 8 rogue Democrats who are more concerned with personal power than party and principle, have aligned themselves with the Party of Trump. They call themselves the “Independent Democratic Conference” (IDC) but they govern with the Republicans. The IDC has deliberately turned the duly elected majority party, the Democratic Party, into the Minority Party, and have catapulted the Party of Trump, the Republican Party, into the majority. Because of these 8, our New York State Senate is failing to do the business for which they were elected. (Sounds complicated, but it’s not. They sold their constituents out for personal gain.)
The agreement between the IDC, and the Party of Trump is that they will only bring up those items that both groups want to come to the floor – in other words, a Republican agenda.
Please understand, the Republicans, despite being in the minority, rule in Albany. Nothing that the Republican leadership does not want to come to the floor of the Senate, ever sees the light of day. And that includes women’s reproductive autonomy and Making New York State a Reproductive Rights Sanctuary.
BUT THEY KEEP THIS A BIG DARK SECRET FROM THEIR VOTERS. We must pull back the curtain and expose them for who they are. Governor Cuomo must demand that these 8 rogue Democrats caucus with the party to which they were elected.
The New York State Senate must stand with Lady Liberty and welcome all those who come to our state, whether crossing the country for reproductive care or from another land. We cannot be that beacon to the weary if the 8 rogue Democrats continue to caucus with the Party of Trump in Albany producing a Republican agenda.
Help us make them return to the caucus to which their constituents elected them.
