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Emily’s List, Winner Of 4 Pinochios (WaPo) Endorses Val Arkoosh for Senate

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On Monday (June 21), Val Arkoosh proudly announced that Emily’s List had endorsed her candidacy in the 2022 Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate.

The importance of the Emily’s List endoresment was noted by the Inquirer. They wrote –

Pennsylvania Democrats saw its clout in 2016, when EMILY’s List, which backs Democratic women who support abortion rights, spent $5.7 million aiding Katie McGinty in her Senate campaign, according to the group. That included $1.8 million to help propel McGinty to a primary win over former U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak and John Fetterman, who is now Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor and an early front-runner in the 2022 Senate primary.

The Washington Post slammed McGinty and Emily’s List for an attack ad they ran against Sestak during the 2016 Democratic Primary. The post wrote –

The battle between former representative Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) and former White House aide Katie McGinty may be history, as McGinty on April 26 won the Democratic nomination to face incumbent Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) in the fall. But we still would like to examine this television ad because it demonstrates a disturbing trend — what our old colleague Mark Stencel has called the “weaponization of fact checking.”

In this case, Women Vote, an arm of Emily’s List, a Political Action Committee that seeks to elect pro-choice Democratic women, is using words “true” and “truth” and even cites a fact checking organization to advance a deeply misleading claim. The group got away with it because television stations in Pennsylvania kept running the ad even though the Sestak campaign provided evidence that it was false.

Four Pinocchios For Emily's List