Pro-Choice Group Slams Blanche Lincoln: 'She Wasn't There For Us, We Won't Be There For Her'

[IndianaGreen]

Pro-Choice Group Slams Blanche Lincoln: 'She Wasn't There For Us, We Won't Be There For Her'

Evan McMorris-Santoro | March 4, 2010, 10:55AM

Despite an ever-strengthening primary challenge from Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) still has plenty of powerful friends in Washington. But after today, Lincoln can't count EMILY's List, one of the strongest support networks for pro-choice women candidates in the country, among her allies.

In a strongly-worded rebuke of Lincoln on the the group's blog this morning, EMILY's List chair Ellen Malcolm rejected the woman whom her group once counted among its rising stars.

"Since she wasn't there for us," Malcom wrote, "we won't be there for her."

EMILY's list supported Lincoln in 1998, when she first won her seat in the Senate. But this time, Malcolm says she has a very different response when asked what EMILY's List will do to help Lincoln win.

"My answer? Nothing," Malcolm writes.

The split with EMILY's list first came came in 1999, when Lincoln voted in favor of a late-term abortion ban. Malcom says Lincoln had told EMILY's list supporters she was opposed to the measure, which was among the reasons she received support from the organization in the first place.

"She took our members' hard-earned money to get elected. Unfortunately, when the Santorum bill came up for a vote, Lincoln voted for it even though it provided no exception to protect women's health."

Malcolm writes that this time around, Lincoln's on her own as far as EMILY's list is concerned.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/emilys-list-chair-slams-blanche-lincoln-she-wasnt-there-for-us-we-wont-be-there-for-her.php?ref=fpc

FRAK Blanche Lincoln!

[bertman]

1. Thanks for posting this. I'm overdue on my donation to Emily's List. REC. nt

[WhiteTara]

2. she needs to switch parties cause she is

a repuke from the word go.

[ChicagoSuz219]

3. At this point, I think she's toast, no matter what she does...

...she may as well vote YES.

[David Zephyr]

4. Yes. I'll take a Republican who stabs you in your chest over a fake Democrat who stabs in the back.

To hell with her and her raw ambition. She deserves to go down in flames in the Primary.