Posted on 06/11/2006 9:36:19 AM PDT by Rakkasan1
This may not seem like your mother's League of Women Voters. The 86-year-old league, so often regarded as the epitome of good-government wonkery, will wade into pointedly political territory during its four-day national convention, which begins today in Minneapolis.
Immigration policy, the death penalty and a move to upend the Electoral College are on the convention agenda. And the featured speaker at the convention's banquet on Monday is Garrison Keillor, the homegrown humorist who has long and loudly been a defiantly partisan Democrat.
"We're looking forward to what he has to say, but just because he's a Democrat, you can be sure we're steadfast in our nonpartisanship," said league spokeswoman Kelly Ceballos,
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obvious BS.just look at their goals/topics.
Been that way for awhile.
My mother referred to them as "The Plague of Women Voters."
I bet the requirements to join aren't that you just have to be a woman and a registered voter. That would be too non-partisan.
bet they never invited Charlton Heston to speak to their gang.
Abolishing the Electoral College would open the door for MASSIVE electoral fraud.
As far back as I can remember, the League of Women Voters was pretty leftwing.....and that is pretty far back!
pro-abortion for a generation
When I was younger, I did not know much about the League of Women Voters.
I contacted them to come into our conservative church and do a voter registration drive.
Looking back I laugh. It was probably the first anti-abortion sermon they had ever heard.
When it comes to the Electoral College, the league has long believed it should be abolished, reasoning that it is fundamentally undemocratic.As the Founding Fathers intended it to be.
Yeah, right. Just bs
The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government ... That is small "r" not small "d." Its intent is to protect minority and individual rights against the "tyranny of the majority."
What a liar. Go to a local League of Women Voters meeting and see what happens there.
They should rename themselves, League of LIBERAL Women Voters.
Republic doesn't rhyme with COMMUNIST. They cannot remember what it means.
The LOWV has been a leftist, lunatic, hangout for as long as I can remember.
Uh, that's Article IV, Section 4, actually...
But the effects are confined to one state. Who cares if Kerry wins with 70%, 80%, or 90% in Massachusetts? If the Electoral College were abolished, Massachussets and other DemocRAT strongholds would have a much greater incentive to increase voter fraud in presidential elections.
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