Yesterday Jeff Flake won the GOP Primary in Arizona, to become the party's candidate for the U.S. senate.
Today former Sen. Barry Goldwater's daughter, Joanne, and her daughter CC, endorsed Dr. Richard Carmona, Arizona Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.
According to the article linked below, Goldwater's daughter and granddaughter publicly endorsed Carmona because of his 'honest, independent bipartisanship and strong support for women's rights, particularly abortion rights.'
from the website AZ Women's Heritage Trail I learned that Barry Goldwater's wife, Peggy Johnson Goldwater and others worked with Margaret Sanger in 1937 to organize the first family planning clinic in Phoenix. She continued to aid the organization when it became Planned Parenthood of Phoenix in the 1940s and later Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern Arizona. She actively supported this cause until her death in 1985.
Flake ,of course has voted to deny funding for Planned Parenthood in AZ and is consistently on the wrong side of women's reproductive rights issues. Who knew , in trying to destroy Planned Parenthood , he was voting against a such a venerable Republican institution ?
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