Elections
From being allowed to vote to informing the public, La Crosse’s Powell and Haskell talk League of Women Voters
Jane Powell, president of the League of Women Voters of the La Crosse Area, plus voter services chair, Chris Haskell, in studio discussing all the things the League is doing to inform the public this election cycle.
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We began the show, though, with La Crosse city clerk Nikki Elsen, talking about early in-person voting and how Day 1 went Tuesday.
After that (10:45), with Haskell and Powell, we started the conversation in 1920 — this radical idea of letting women vote — then moved to 2024 and how the League has evolved.
We then hit on some of the efforts specifically the La Crosse chapter has done, including the school district’s $53.5 million referendum forum, taking a stance on the Constitutional Amendment question and, also, how they remain nonpartisan in an ever polarized environment.
walden
October 24, 2024 at 7:31 pm
LWV struggling to even pretend relevance.
They put the potential of illegal non-citizens voting in Wisconsin ahead of the value of citizens’ votes.
LG
October 25, 2024 at 6:47 am
Yes, they did Walden. Yes, they did. It was hard to hear them over Rick Solem’s rambling multi questions and interuptions, but essentially that’s what they said. They are non-partisan, but they could not resist encouraging a no vote on changing the Wisconsin Constitution so that illegal aliens can vote.
Kevin
October 25, 2024 at 7:16 am
I haven’t seen any women not allowed to vote, nor any women that can’t vote, nor any pretend women that can’t vote, nor any pretend women that aren’t allowed to vote.
I actually haven’t seen anyone that can’t vote, nor not allowed to vote, or even discouraged from voting as a result of skin color, gender, gender-bending, creed, religion etc.
The only people I know that are discouraged, and only by conservatives, to vote are the illegal aliens, non-citizen type, you know the ones that US Government imported with their international bussing program to re-define the voting blocks, sow disunity, etc…
So I agree Walden, they are struggling to establish relevance. Their only relevance right now is to create the proverbial ‘voting party’ and coerce votes toward the left is my thought.
Roy
October 25, 2024 at 10:04 am
A proper name for the “League” would be the “League of Liberal Women Voters”
walden
October 27, 2024 at 6:32 pm
They talk about the 18-34 age group as a “voting block,” which is a dead giveaway. You don’t use that terminology unless you are aware they tend to vote a certain way: in this case Democrat.