CHLAFLY / PALIN TOGETHER: Scheduled Award Ceremony Takes On Added Significance
St. Paul, Minnesota—The Republican National Coalition for Life (RNC/ Life) praises Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain for selecting pro-life Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) as his vice presidential running mate. Palin has been the governor of Alaska since 2006. A mother of five, she recently gave birth to her fifth child, her son Trig, who was diagnosed in-utero with Down’s Syndrome. Her selection makes her the very first Republican woman to be a vice presidential candidate.
RNC for Life National Chairman Phyllis Schlafly is available for interviews from St. Paul, MN.
“Sarah Palin is an outstanding governor, an exemplar of all that is good and true,” said RNC for Life National Chairman Phyllis Schlafly. “She is a major leader in the pro-life movement and that is main reason we chose her as our keynote speaker for our ‘Life of the Party’ party at this year’s GOP convention.”
“John McCain has just won the election with this pick,” said RNC for Li fe Executive Director Colleen Parro. “Governor Palin will have wide appeal among social conservatives and pro-life Republicans.”
Parro continued, “This is the conservative outreach from the McCain campaign for which we have been hoping. We couldn’t have asked for a better VP pick.”
The Republican National Coalition for Life was founded by Phyllis Schlafly in the fall of 1990 after other groups publicly announced their intention to provoke a floor fight at the 1992 Republican convention in order to remove the pro-life plank from the Platform. Since that time, RNC for Life has successfully defended the pro-life plank, including strengthening the ban on embryonic stem cell research in the 2008 platform.
Governor Sarah Palin will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Life of the Party event on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 from 4-6pm at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in St. Paul, MN hosted by the Republican National Coalition for Life. If you would like to obtain m edia clearance, please contact RNC for Life spokesperson Jessica Echard at jessica at rnclife.org .
ABOUT YOUR SPEAKER .
Phyllis Schlafly has been a national leader of the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 1964 book, A Choice Not An Echo. She has been a leader of the pro-family movement since 1972, when she started her national volunteer organization now called Eagle Forum. In a ten-year battle, Mrs. Schlafly led the pro-family movement to victory over the principal legislative goal of the radical feminists, called the Equal Rights Amendment. An articulate and successful opponent of the radical feminist movement, she appears in debate on college campuses more frequently than any other conservative. She was named one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century by the Ladies' Home Journal.
Mrs. Schlafly's monthly newsletter called The Phyllis Schlafly Report is now in its 41st year. Her syndicated column appears in 100 ne wspapers, her radio commentaries are heard daily on 460 stations, and her radio talk show on education called "Eagle Forum Live" is heard weekly on 45 stations. Both can be heard on the Internet.
Mrs. Schlafly is the author or editor of 20 books on subjects as varied as family and feminism (The Power of the Positive Woman and Feminist Fantasies), nuclear strategy (Strike From Space and Kissinger on the Couch), education (Child Abuse in the Classroom), child care (Who Will Rock the Cradle?), and phonics (First Reader and Turbo Reader). Her most recent book: The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It.
Mrs. Schlafly is a lawyer and served as a member of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, 1985-1991, appointed by President Reagan. She has testified before more than 50 Congressional and State Legislative committees on constitutional, national defense, and family issues.
Mrs. Schlafly is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Was hington University, received her J.D. from Washington University Law School, and received her Master's in Political Science from Harvard University.