Republicans may have ‘binders full of women,’ as Mitt Romney famously said. But you wouldn’t know it from a glance at an early speakers list of the conservative event of the year.
Of the confirmed speakers list for the Conservative Policy Action Conference — and presumably the most notable — just four women are listed, while 24 men made the early list. All but three of the confirmed men and women speaking are white, too.
CPAC spokeswoman Meghan Snyder told msnbc that the list will grow, but doesn’t say whether it will add more women or people of color.
“We’re continuing to make updates and I expect we’ll have another one posted soon,” she wrote in an email. “We’ve yet to announce panelists, speakers, and other participants.”
The event’s speaker list has been widely criticized for its diversity—or lack thereof—in past conferences. Of 2012’s nearly 250 confirmed speakers, TheBlaze counted just 71 women a week before the event.









