About as effective as their call on Emil Jones to step down.
It didn’t sound like Jones, and now that we know Grabenhofer is part of the fiasco, there’s no reason Emil is even being bothered with this. You might remember Grabenhofer as the one who doesn’t even know who else voted like Obama on abortion bills, claims Illinois NOW didn’t endorse him because of it, but cannot explain why the endorsed Lisa Madigan who did the same thing. Update: As Rich points out, it does sound like Jones, actually, I’m just not sure it deserves this kind of coverage. That said, I’m not sure why it’s getting as much attention as our Governor trying tear apart the Illinois Constitution.
“That was a pretty horrible comment,” said Illinois NOW president Bonnie Grabenhofer, also a Clinton delegate, who issued the demand for Senate President Emil Jones’ resignation.
Feminists who make up the Illinois Clinton delegate contingent at the Democratic National Convention were outraged to learn of today’s exclusive Chicago Sun-Times report about Clinton delegate Delmarie Cobb’s accusation that Jones directed the racially loaded slur at her.
The flap comes at a particularly sensitive time for the Obama campaign, which is slumping in national polls and has struggled to bring Clinton delegates across the country into the fold.
“I’ve never heard anything as awful or as sexist or as racist as to call her that for supporting Hillary,” said Clinton delegate Gay Bruhn, another NOW member in Illinois who called for a public apology from Jones.
What is missing is that Bruhn isn’t just another NOW member, she’s Bonnie’s partner. That would be mentioned in any story referring to a heterosexual couple. So the story misses the context and treats same sex couples differently.
John Ruberry’s all over it.
In other news, a dog bit a man and the sun rose in the east this morning.
Because Ruberry is so committed to women’s issues.
As your headline reads, I thought you were agreeing with IL NOW.
I thought you were demanding Illinois pull its collective head out of its ass at this time.
need to capitalize the O and the W.