LWV Muscatine County
The Latest!
Our May meeting at Wine Nutz was a big hit! We drafted a calendar for 2017-18, talked about many topics of local interest, and gained two new members!
Welcome Nora Dwyer and Pam Joslyn to LWV Muscatine
County! Mike Johannsen joined at Annual Meeting. We are glad you joined!
Please share ideas from our calendar with your friends and bring them along to a League meeting. It is through personal connections we share our interests and associations.
What day works for you? We meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month most of the time. Does that work for you? Please reply and let me know. I am interested in what you think.
Draft of Calendar
August 22 - School Board Candidates’ meeting
September 12 - School Board Election Day
October 10th - Municipal and Mayoral Candidates’ meeting
October 24 - Panel discussion on good government and transparency
November 7 Election Day
November 28 - Local Water Quality, Solar, and Billing with MPW
December - No Meeting
January - State topic to be determined
February - Food Insecurity and Shelter
March 27 - To be determined
April 22 - Annual Meeting
May 22 - Calendar Planning
Areas of interest that came up in the brainstorming included domestic violence, a film series at the library, the discussion topic of what makes a good citizen, and an update on Muscatine’s port. Which of these topics speaks to you?
From LWVUS
In 2020 the 19th Amendment will be 100 years old. There is a Centennial Celebration Committee working on ways to raise awareness and spread the news. I volunteered to work on curriculum for high school students. I will meet with others June 9-10 in Grinnell.
LWVIA hold its Convention in Grinnell on June 9-10. I am looking forward to being with other League leaders and hearing direction and priorities for the next year. On Friday night we will hear speakers Kathie Obradovich and O. Kay Henderson. Obradovich is a political columnist for the Des Moines Register and O. Kay Henderson is Radio Iowa News Director. I predict it will be lively!
I hope you are ready to help register voters. Someone will be calling you to enlist your help later in the summer. Let’s make Democracy Work!
Sue
Action Alert: Senate Shapes Healthcare
The battle over legislation that would repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues in the U.S. Senate where a small group of Senators are secretly working
to make decisions that will cut coverage, raise rates and give the richest
Americans tax breaks at the expense of everyone else.
Take action NOW by calling or emailing your Senators today!
I know some of our members are interested in immigration. Here’s an opportunity you won’t want to miss.
New Google Discussion Group: Immigration
As immigration reform is becoming a priority issue in the League and in our nation, a new LWV online discussion group has been formed to discuss immigration issues. Join to learn what’s happening all across our nation to people who re-enter the U.S. unlawfully but have no record of serious criminal activity, to people who are deported but have American-born children, to children who enter the U.S.unlawfully with their parents when they grow up and try to get a job. This discussion group is for League members to share ideas, resources, successes, and questions. To receive an invitation to join the group, please contact Linda Wassenich (LindaVote@gmail.com) or Meredith Machen (meredith.machen@gmail.com).
League Calls on President Trump to Commit to Protecting Civil Rights
The League joined the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights on a letter to President Trump expressing concern that the civil and human rights of all Americans are being drastically undermined by the administration’s proposed deep cuts to key civil rights office budgets, the withdrawal of numerous important civil and human rights policies, and the appointment of officials who appear bent on retreating from statutory civil and human rights agency priorities.