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SAVE: Tell Senators Corker and Alexander, Vote No on VAWA
Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2012-03-14 00:45
As we've mentioned before, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is up for reauthorization. VAWA has many short-comings. Last week we told you about the lack of accountability and accreditation. Today we're focusing on VAWA's lack of equal protection.
VAWA provides legal assistance to accusers, but not to the accused. Read "My Son Had No Chance to Prove His Innocence" (http://womenagainstvawa.org/mother-my-son-had-no-chance-to-prove-his-innocence) to see how VAWA is negatively impacting innocent families.
Senator Leahy is still trying to get enough co-sponsors to avoid a filibuster, but he hasn't succeeded yet. We need to make sure he doesn't get any more.
Today we're asking you to call senators Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander of TN. Call Sen. Corker at his Washington DC office: 202-224-3344, and call Sen. Alexander at his office: (202) 224-4944.
We're holding the line. Don't let go now!
Sincerely,
Teri Stoddard, Program Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
www.saveservices.org
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political ploy
I fear that the democratic politicians and the liberal media will use the vote on VAWA as a political ploy,by claiming that it's the republicans who are against reforming the VAWA with their so called "war on women" strategy. In this election year there might be some who will vote against "SAVE" in fear of being demonized for supporing the trumped up "War on women" BS. This type of thing has worked before,and if the demorcratic politicians can "rile" up 10's of millions of women for the vote they'll most certainly will do so. I'll remind those that this post is not made for any political agenda but rather what I believe is a very strong possibility of what could happen with this vote.
SPLC
I'm sure SAVE being named on the SPLC hate group list won't help. It's why I wish SAVE would sue them for libel. SPLC may not be accusing them of a crime (hate speech), but they are slandering their reputation to the detriment of SAVE's goals, which I believe counts too.