Statement of NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri about NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Endorsement of Barack Obama for President of the United States
Here is the text of a robocall recorded by executive director Pamela Sumners a couple of hours after being informed by NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC that it was making an endorsement in the presidential race on May 14, 2008: THIS IS PAMELA SUMNERS, DIRECTOR OF NARAL PRO-CHOICE MISSOURI. AT 11 A.M. THIS MORNING, I LEARNED SOMETHING YOU MAY ALREADY HAVE HEARD—THAT NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA’S PAC HAD VOTED TO ENDORSE SENATOR BARACK OBAMA. I HAVE RECEIVED MANY COMPLAINTS ABOUT THIS DECISION OF OUR NATIONAL OFFICE, WHICH OPERATES INDEPENDENTLY OF US AND WHICH DOES NOT SHARE MEMBERSHIP DUES WITH US. WE HAD NO PART IN THIS DECISION. I TOLD NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA THAT IN MISSOURI, WE THINK WE HAVE TWO PRO-CHOICE CANDIDATES STILL RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. MANY OF OUR MEMBERS SUPPORT SENATOR CLINTON. WE THINK IT HONORS HER PERFECT PRO-CHOICE RECORD, HONORS OUR MEMBERS WHO SUPPORT HER, AND HONORS THE VOTERS WHO HAVE YET TO HAVE THEIR SAY TO LET THIS NOMINATION RESOLVE ITSELF WITHOUT NARAL’S ENDORSEMENT. WE’D FEEL THE SAME ON BEHALF OF OUR MEMBERS WHO SUPPORT SENATOR OBAMA IF THE ROLES WERE REVERSED. I HOPE THAT IF YOU ARE A HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTER, YOU WON’T HOLD A DECISION THAT WE WERE NOT PART OF, AND WHICH WE WOULD NOT HAVE MADE, AGAINST NEUTRAL NARAL PRO-CHOICE MISSOURI.
THANKS FOR HEARING US OUT.
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