(Fwd) Email Clinton to sign orders re battered women and jobs

[Sara Karon]

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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 15:30:01 -0400
Reply-to: feme...@bucknell.edu
From: (Marianne Hill) <mh...@mis.ihl.state.ms.us>
To: Multiple recipients of list <feme...@bucknell.edu>
Subject: Email Clinton to sign orders re battered women and jobs

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From: Women Leaders Online <w...@wlo.org>
Sat, 24 Aug 1996 16:07:36 +000
To: re...@wlo.org
Subject: WOC Alert 8/24/96:

SUMMARY:

We have learned that President Clinton is reviewing Executive Orders
regarding battered women and job development, which may lessen some of
the harm that the newly-signed welfare reform bill will cause.

Contact President Clinton by phone (202-456-1414), fax (202-456-2461),
or e-mail (pres...@whitehouse.gov) and urge him to sign these
orders.

BACKGROUND:

Despite the long and united opposition of the women's movement,
President Clinton signed the horrendous Gingrich-Dole welfare
repeal bill on Thursday. But we're not giving up the fight yet! In his
public comments, President Clinton promised to make important changes
to the bill to make it slightly less harmful to women and children. It
is essential that we hold him to this promise.

Thursday's White House demonstration, in which the Women Leaders
Online staff enthusiastically participated, was a good start. We
expressed our rage and disappointment, and we got a lot of media
coverage. (Rhonda Lees, our deputy director, was prominently quoted in
the AP story that many of you probably saw in your local newspapers.
Way to go, Rhonda!)

We know President Clinton felt the heat, because administration
officials called the demonstration's organizers. The officials
indicated that President Clinton would issue executive orders on job
development and battered women immediately.

It is *crucial* that we strike while the iron is hot and while all
attention is on President Clinton! Contact President Clinton by phone
(202-456-1414), fax (202-456-2461), or e-mail
(pres...@whitehouse.gov) and urge him to sign these orders.

Our message is simple: President Clinton must issue Executive Orders
on job development and battered women immediately. Also feel free to
express your personal feelings on this subject. And spread the word!

Please call , fax or e-mail IMMEDIATELY to get this message to
President Clinton. We cannot live with a welfare bill that will push
1.3 million children and 1 million mothers deeply into poverty.
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