Could Biden help win over women voters?

[jillan]

It saddens me how people don't know how strong Joe is in fighting for women's rights.

http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/172

American Bar Association and Senator Biden Join Feminists' War on Fathers

Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) has rushed to the aid of women who want free lawyers to help them make domestic violence accusations, and of lawyers seeking income from those cases. He is the lead sponsor of an extravagant new boondoggle called the National Domestic Violence Volunteer Attorney Network Act (S.1515).

Biden's bill would give $2 million a year to the ABA "Commission" that wrote "10 Myths" in order to create a National Domestic Violence Volunteer Attorney Network Referral Project. Biden wants the taxpayers to pay the lawyers' student loans.

Biden's bill will channel an estimated $55.5 million of taxpayers' money to lawyers and the special-interest ABA "Commission" will be in the catbird seat. The bill will authorize federal funding to create and maintain an electronic network, provide mentoring, training and other assistance, and set up a legal coordinator's office in each state to match lawyers to victims.

Biden's bill will give a half-million dollars to the National Domestic Violence Hotline to train feminists in coordination with the ABA project. The Biden bill will establish a Domestic Violence Legal Advisory Task Force and a National Institute of Justice to study legal services available to "battered" women.

The Biden bill will give a $75,000 grant to each of five states to create a pilot program to implement the network in coordination with the ABA "Commission." After the five states get into operation, the bill will roll out the program nationally with annual appropriations of $8 million.

Biden's bill passed the Senator Judiciary Committee last month despite Republican objections. To nobody's surprise, the bill is enthusiastically supported by the ABA and a long list of feminist organizations.


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What d'ya think?

[gateley]

1. Agree -- people don't know hardly anything of what he does. nt

[Muttocracy]

2. sometimes my Google alert for Biden picks up stuff like this

talking about him being anti-father, man-hating, other bizarre stuff - esp. for VAW act and international aid he and Lugar worked on I think.

I try to ignore them.

That aside, Hillary's supporters ought to be interested in Biden if they're interested from a feminist perspective. Unless he's not liberal enough on abortion (though I think his statements are not that different from HRC's this year)

[jillan]

3. His position on abortion is the politically correct one.

I kinda actually agree. Late term abortions should only be if it endangers the health of the mother.

There are a group of men that hate Biden for his VAWA legislation - calling it sexist saying that men need those protections too. Whatever. I think the % of women that are abused worldwide is probably alot higher than men.