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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Faye Wattleton discusses Hillary Clinton’s campaign in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article

CFAW President Faye Wattleton was interviewed for a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article discussing Sen. Hillary Clinton’s run for the Democratic nomination. The article, Where did she go wrong? includes the following quotes:

Mrs. Clinton “didn’t speak to issues women care about,” Ms. Wattleton argued in a recent interview. “She ran a campaign that was male-dominated, the kind of campaign she concluded she needed to run to win over male voters, but in doing so she fractured a female constituency that should have been solidly enthusiastic in lockstep for her and was not.”

Mrs. Clinton did win big percentages of the women’s vote in Pennsylvania and other states, but Ms. Wattleton, who has not endorsed any candidate, believes support in this state and elsewhere would have been higher if she’d addressed “women in a way that reflects a visceral understanding of the continuing struggle for equality and fair treatment and how her presidency will truly make a difference for women.”

You can read the full article on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, by Mackenzie Peterson on May 25, 2008, here.