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Is Weiner part of a ‘war on women’? EMILY’s List says no — NBC News

The influential women-in-politics group EMILY’s List will tell supporters on Friday that as far as New York mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner is concerned, “It’s time to end this.”

“New Yorkers deserve better than the circus their mayoral race has turned into. I actually caught myself glad I’m not home — where I’d have to see the cover of the NY Post on every street corner,” communications director Jess McIntosh will write Friday morning in an email obtained by NBC News.

Their proposed solution: Donating to Christine Quinn, who would be the first woman mayor of New York.

“She’s tough, she’s experienced, and she’s ready to become the first woman mayor of America’s largest city. She just needs the resources to win in a crowded Democratic primary against one very well-known (and many other) opponents,” the email says.

EMILY’s List works to elect women candidates who support abortion rights, and they first endorsed Quinn back in January.

But as the Weiner scandal has reemerged, they’ve come under criticism from Republicans who say that what Weiner did amounts to a “war on women” — co-opting the language that Democrats used during the 2012 campaign to try and paint the GOP as hostile to women voters.

“Liberal men are leading a violent war on women — and liberal ‘women’s group’ EMILY’S List is helping them,” the conservative ShePAC — led by people with strong ties to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — wrote to its fundraising list a day after news broke that Weiner had continued sexting with women after he resigned from Congress.

EMILY’s List argues that the “war on women” actually has nothing to do with philandering pols — and is instead about a policy platform.

“It’s outrageous when men of either party (or no party at all) treat the women in their worlds badly, but the entire Republican agenda has prioritized passing laws that make women second-class citizens in this country,” said March Stech, the group’s press secretary.

The reality is that, in public offices high and low, male bad behavior is a bipartisan affair — and the outcomes on both sides are mixed.