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Cahill served on the Republican National Committee's Platform Committee in 2012. The platform included what The New York Times called "strict anti-abortion language" the platform opposed common sense gun laws limiting the capacity for firearm clips and magazines.
Cahill served on the Republican National Committee's Platform Committee in 2012. The platform included what The New York Times called "strict anti-abortion language" the platform opposed common sense gun laws limiting the capacity for firearm clips and magazines.
Cahill served on the Republican National Committee's Platform Committee in 2012. The platform included what The New York Times called "strict anti-abortion language" the platform opposed common sense gun laws limiting the capacity for firearm clips and magazines.
It has come to our attention that you served on the Republican National Committees Platform Committee in 2012 and that the final platform document which you rubberstamped espoused extreme anti-gay, anti-women, and anti-gun control positions. For example:
! The platform included what The New York Times called strict anti-abortion language, effectively prohibiting abortions in all cases.
! The platform reiterated the GOPs ideological opposition to same-sex marriage, and said efforts to make it legal were an assault on the foundations of our society.
! The platform opposed common sense gun laws limiting the capacity for firearm clips and magazines, and endorsed so-called Stand Your Ground rights which have been widely criticized for enabling racially motivated violence.
This platform is way too extreme for New York. Given your opposition to the Womens Equality Act, recent contributions from anti-gay and anti-choice donor Sean Fieler, and opposition to the SAFE Act, New York voters deserve to know whether you still stand by the RNC platform.
We call on you to renounce the RNCs 2012 platform or explain what steps you took to defeat these offensive planks. Anything short of an outright repudiation of the aforementioned platform positions is a clear sign that you are in fact too extreme for New York.
Sincerely,
Andrea Miller President NARAL Pro-Choice New York
Leah Gunn Barrett Executive Director New Yorkers Against Gun Violence [501(c)(4)]
Eunic Ortiz President Stonewall Democratic Club of NYC CHECK THE FACTS
Republicans emphatically approved a toughly worded party platform at their national convention Tuesday that would ban all abortions and gay marriages, reshape Medicare into a voucher-like program Associated Press, 8/28/12
Womens Reproductive Health
Abortion
New York Times HEADLINE: G.O.P. Approves Strict Anti-Abortion Language In Party Platform [New York Times, 8/21/12]
GOP Approved Platform Language That Called For A Constitutional Amendment Outlawing Abortion With No Explicit Exceptions For Cases Of Rape And Incest. Even as the Republican establishment continued to call for Representative Todd Akin of Missouri to drop out of his Senate race because of his comments on rape and abortion, Republicans approved platform language on Tuesday calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion with no explicit exceptions for cases of rape or incest. [New York Times, 8/21/12]
Reproductive Health And Family Planning Services
GOP Platform Opposed Funding Reproductive Health Service Organizations Such As Planned Parenthood. The GOP Platform, which listed Cahill as a Committee Member, said: We oppose using public revenue to promote or perform abortion or fund organizations which perform or advocate it and it will not fund or subsidize health care which includes abortion coverage. [Republican Party Platform, August 2012]
Marriage Equality
The GOP Platform Said That Redefinition Of Marriage In Several States Was An Assault On The Foundations Of Our Society. The GOP Platform, which listed Cahill as a Committee Member, said: A blatant example has been the court-ordered redefinition of marriage in several States. This is more than a matter of warring legal concepts and ideals. It is an assault on the foundations of our society, challenging the institution which, for thousands of years in virtually every civilization has been entrusted with the rearing of children and the transmission of cultural values. [Republican Party Platform, August 2012]
The GOP Platform Defined Marriage As A Union Between A One Man And One Woman. The GOP Platform, which listed Cahill as a Committee Member, said: We reaffirm our support for a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as a the union of one man and one woman. [Republican Party Platform, August 2012]
Gun Control
Bullet Capacity
GOP Platform Opposed Limiting The Capacity Of Clips Or Magazines For Firearms. The GOP Platform said: We oppose legislation that is intended to restrict our Second Amendment rights by limiting the capacity of clips or magazines or otherwise restoring the ill-considered Clinton Gun Ban. [Republican Party Platform, August 2012]
AP: Republicans Called For Unlimited Bullet Capacities In Guns, A Defiant Response To Criticism That Followed Shootings From Colorado And Arizona. Republicans have strengthened the pro-gun-rights portion of their party platform, including a new call for unlimited bullet capacities in guns, in a defiant response to criticism that followed recent mass shootings at a Colorado cinema and an Arizona congresswoman's gathering. [Associated Press, 8/30/12]
Stand Your Ground
The 2012 Platform Endorsed Stand Your Ground Rights For Gun Owners. The 2012 platform, approved this week by GOP convention-goers who nominated Mitt Romney for president, also endorses stand your ground rights for gun owners. That legal concept, which says gun bearers dont have to retreat if they feel threatened in a public place, drew national attention after Februarys fatal shooting of an unarmed Florida teenager by a neighborhood watch volunteer. [Associated Press, 8/30/12]
Immigration
Leadership
Fox News Latino: The Platform Stance On Immigration Is The Brainchild Of Kansas Secretary Of State Kris Kobach, The Chief Architect Of The Countrys Most Controversial State Immigration Laws, Including Arizonas SB 1070, Key Parts Of Which The U.S. Supreme Court Struck Down. [Fox News Latino, 8/23/12]
Border Fence, In-State Tuition And Sanctuary Cities
Politico: The Platform Committee Overwhelmingly Voted To Add Language Proposed By Kobach Which Called For The Completion Of A Border Fence, The End Of In-State Tuition For Illegal Immigrants And An End To Sanctuary Cities. The platform committee overwhelmingly voted to add language proposed by [Kris] Kobach calling for the completion of a border fence, the end of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants and an end to sanctuary cities. [Politico, 8/21/12]
The Platform Called For A Double-Walled Fence Along The Mexican Boarder And An End To Federal Lawsuit That Challenged State Immigration Laws. It calls for a double- walled fence along the Mexican border, and an end to federal lawsuits challenging state immigration laws. (Despite rampant concerns about racial profiling and other civil-rights abuses in states such as Arizona and Alabama, the Department of Justice would be told to stay out; nothing to see there.) [New York Times, 8/23/12]
Self-Deportation
The GOP Platform Drafting Committee Adopted A Self Deportation Immigration Solution. The Republican platform drafting committee has adopted the self-deportation immigration solution that Mitt Romney embraced during the primaries. [New York Times, 8/23/12]
Self-Deportation Was The Idea To Force 11 Million Undocumented Immigrants To Leave The County By Making Them Miserable. This is the idea that it is not only possible to force 11 million undocumented immigrants to leave the country by making them miserable, but also desirablepresumably because Americans are itching to get back to farm labor, domestic and restaurant work, small-scale entrepreneurship and other backbreaking, minimal-wage jobs that illegal immigrants have stolen from them. [New York Times, 8/23/12]
E-Verify
New York Times: The Platform Calls For The Federal Government To Force Businesses In Every State To Use The E-Verify Electronic Database To Check The Immigration Status Of New Hires. [New York Times, 8/23/12]