Podcasts about woman voters

Understanding The Importance of Your Vote Explained by The League of Woman Voters Virginia

Anne Marie works with NGO's and private companies to develop and fund their organizations and projects. She has hosted fundraisers for political campaigns from NY City Council to the NY Governors race and Presidential bids. Clients include, United Cerebral Palsy Research & Education (CEO Paul Volcker) as well as Tom Cruise and his 9/11 NY Detox Project. She creates and produces unique events from small, private dinners, to wine tastings and large scale stadium venues . As the former President of New York From the Ground Up, a 9/11 small business lobby (co-founded with Kevin Curnin, Jeanine Chanes and Arielle Goodman), they helped break through and redefine HUD regulations. FTGU was instrumental in reshaping public policy to help deliver federal funds and grant monies to assist small business owners in rebuilding the Ground Zero Community. Honored by League of Woman Voters as a Woman of Distinction. Honorary co-chair of the Congressional Small Business Advisory Board of NYC for three years. Two national leadership awards from Congress. A 9/11 Manhattan Chamber of Commerce award was presented to From the Ground Up for their leadership and advocacy. Anne Marie was previously a Non Partisan Political writer for The Examiner. To find out more about her petition, click here: https://www.change.org/p/you-promised-to-never-forget?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_34325637_en-US%3A8&recruiter=895007848&recruited_by_id=bbb1b420-a3df-11e8-b166-6d0b6cd0f77f&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=share_petition&share_bandit_exp=initial-34325637-en-USThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5351305/advertisement

While Lou Henry Hoover did not campaign for suffrage, she did actively support the League of Women Voters once women gained suffrage.  

Susan Martin, League of Woman Voters, Episode 2 by Every Woman Vote

It's that time of year again that we have the civic duty of voting in the primaries! Why is this important? Well, because there are a lot of strong women full of integrity and grit that are running for office and they need your help to get there! In Pennsylvania, the primaries fall on May 15, so we decided to seek out women running for an elected positions to share their thoughts on being a woman on the campaign trail. Spoiler alert: being a woman rules, especially when ladies are helping ladies get into office! Get ready to hear from Summer Lee, Sara Innamorato, Lindsey Williams, Stephanie Walsh, and Ashley Comans who all share their two cents on running for office and how you can get involved! Not sure who is running in your area or if you're registered? Check out the League of Woman Voters guide at lwv.org for some guidance.  Info below on each campaign. Sara Innamorato - State Representative, District 21 Summer Lee - State Representative, District 34 Lindsey Williams - PA State Senate, District 38 Stephanie Walsh - PA State Senate, District 38 Thoughts? Email us: shatteredglasspodcast@gmail.com Music by Anthony LaMarca This episode is brought to you by Modcloth. Use code "SHATTERED" to get 15% off your purchase of $100 or more!

Iowa League of Woman Voters wants our attention for an upcoming League convention.  Then,  Jason Matthews, ex-CIA guy, now novelist,  tells us as much as he can without having to kill us.  Palace of Treason

Election Day 2014 may hold the presidential legacy of President Barack Obama. With dwindling approval ratings and a disenchanted electorate, the balance of Congress hung in the air. African American voters will determine if the legacy continues or if it falls. Congressman Andre Carson (D-OH), Dr. Wilmer Leon, III, and League of Woman Voters, Linda Softli, discussed the Voter suppression tactics of the GOP and the apathy thats discouraging the Black Vote. And shared their viewpoints on why President Obama has been so passive in his leadership style, which may result in the death of his Presidency.

Veterans Day Program World War II Remembered: The Impact of War Then and Now Rockefeller Center Booksigning of World War II Remembered and refreshments will follow panel. Panelists: Kendal of Hanover Residents Clinton Gardner '44 A member of the Dartmouth class of 1944, Clint Gardner served four years in the army as an officer in antiaircraft artillery. He was wounded in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and again in the Battle of the Bulge. Shortly before the war in Europe ended he was put in charge of the just-liberated Buchenwald Concentration camp. He had reached the rank of captain when he returned to finish Dartmouth in 1946-7. In 1956 he and his wife Libby founded a national mail order company called Shopping International, a venture based in Norwich, Vermont, that sent them on buying trips to more than 40 countries. Mary Mecklin Jenkins The daughter of a Dartmouth professor, Mary grew up in Hanover. Two months after graduating from college, she married brand new Second Lieutenant, John Jenkins, and went with him to a B-29 Air Force base in Victoria, Kansas where he was an intelligence officer. After the war, while raising four children, Mary was president of a local League of Woman Voters in Connecticut, the first woman moderator of Westport's Representative Town Meeting, and served on the town's Planning and Zoning Commission and Board of Finance. Recipient of a grant from the West German government to study German women in politics, Mary also went to the Soviet Union twice on exchanges sponsored by Bridges for Peace: US-USSR. Robert Christie At the tender age of 16, in 1940 Robert Christie matriculated at Norwich University, the Military College of Vermont and oldest private military college in the nation. He enlisted in the U.S. Army immediately after Pearl Harbor, and after being called to active duty, he spent a year as an enlisted man and eventually graduated form OCS at Fort Knox as a 2nd lieutenant in Armor. His military service was in Europe as a tank unit commander in Germany from the onset of the Battle of the Bulge until the war's end in 1945. Bob was separated from service in 1946 as a company commander. Forty months later he returned to Norwich to get his BS, and with the help of the GI Bill of Rights, graduated from State University of NY College of Medicine at NYC. Dr. Christie interned and had residencies at DHMC, and for three years practiced general medicine in Northfield, VT. He later specialized in pathology and laboratory medicine, directed eight hospital laboratories in NH and VT, and served on the DMS faculty. Moderator: John Boger '13