Last of two parts
Reprinted from The Voice, May 9, 2019
Cecile Richards, a recent guest on the MSNBC Morning Joe television program, announced that she and co-sponsor Alicia Garza have formed a new organization entitled: “Supermajority.”
The following article was written by Chantal da Silva for Newsweek.
“While Supermajority’s aim is to push politicians to adopt a ‘women’s new deal,’ as Richards put it to The Associated Press in a recent interview, the group is not expected to endorse individual candidates.
“In addition to Richards, Garza, and Poo, Supermajority’s leadership team includes activists and organizers Jess Morales Rocketto, the chair of Families Belong Together, Deirdre Schifeling, a senior adviser for the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and Civitas Public Affairs Group partner Katherine Grainger.
“The group’s creation comes as women’s voices are becoming increasingly powerful in politics and beyond. Particularly in the wake of the #MeToo movement, which saw countless numbers of women around the world come forward with their experiences of sexual harassment and assault, a new, strengthened, focus has zeroed in on issues affecting women in the U.S. and around the world.
“Seeking to harness women’s growing ‘collective power in this moment,’ Supermajority states it aims to ‘lift up an agenda that addresses our needs and hold candidates and elected officials accountable,’ Silva wrote.
“The specific instances in which the U.S. Constitution requires a super-majority are limited to: Convicting an Impeachment (2/3 majority in the Senate — Article 1, Section 3) Expulsion of a member of one house of Congress (2/3 vote of the house in question — Article 1, Section 5) Aug 16, 2010.”