EMILY's List: Sanders headlining Women's Convention 'sends the wrong message'

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65. Wrong. He is the LEAD SPEAKER. He is the HEADLINER.

He doesn't belong in that position. A woman should open the convention. A woman like Maxine Waters, who "is also coming," according to one of the organizers.

http://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-womens-march-hillary-clinton-683579

BERNIE SANDERS WILL OPEN THE WOMEN’S CONVENTION AND SOME PEOPLE AREN'T HAPPY

But the choice of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders as the lead speaker at the convention has sparked criticism from commentators, who suggested that a woman should have opened the event.

The participation of Sanders—who unsuccessfully challenged Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016—was confirmed by the Women’s March on Thursday. Sanders is due to deliver the opening night address of the three-day conference on October 27.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/10/12/bernie-sanders-speech-womens-convention/756825001/

When Women's March co-founder Tamika Mallory was asked: "People are going to say, wait a minute, there’s a man as the headliner at the Women’s Convention, the first women’s convention in 40 years?" she replied:

"I would say that (U.S. Rep.) Maxine Waters is also coming to the conference, and we know she has been a very, very powerful voice in terms of all we’ve seen happening in terms of this administration, particularly, and she’ll be at the conference as well. And a lot of other people have been invited to the conference and we’re hoping to hear back from these folks. Thankfully, SenatorSanders has agreed to attend."