Women, The Vote, and the GOP

[PoliticalChic]

1. "On Aug. 26, 1920 — 92 years ago today — women's right to vote became law after Tennessee's pivotal ratification of the 19th Amendment. Although it is not well known, Aug. 26 of each year since 1971 has been proclaimed a day of commemoration by U.S. presidents to celebrate the anniversary of women winning the right to vote and to serve as a "symbol of the continued fight for equal rights."
Patricia Pierce: Women must exercise their right to vote to gain true equality » Knoxville News Sentinel



2. It was a Republican who introduced what became the 19th Amendment, women’s suffrage. On May 21, 1919, U.S. Representative James R. Mann (1856-1922), a Republican from Illinois and chairman of the Suffrage Committee, proposed the House resolution to approve the Susan Anthony Amendment granting women the right to vote. The measure passed the House 304-89—a full 42 votes above the required two-thirds majority. 19th Amendment — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts

3. The 1919 vote in the House of Representatives was possible because Republicans had retaken control of the House. Attempts to get it passed through Democrat-controlled Congresses had failed.

4. The Senate vote was approved only after a Democrat filibuster; and 82% of the Republican Senators voted for it….and 54% of the Democrats.




5. 26 of the 36 states that ratified the 19th Amendment had Republican legislatures.

6. Two weeks later, on June 4, 1919, the Senate passed the 19th Amendment by two votes over its two-thirds required majority, 56-25. The amendment was then sent to the states for ratification. Within six days of the ratification cycle, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin each ratified the amendment. Kansas, New York and Ohio followed on June 16, 1919. By March of the following year, a total of 35 states had approved the amendment, one state shy of the two-thirds required for ratification. Southern states were adamantly opposed to the amendment, however, and seven of them—Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia—had already rejected it before Tennessee's vote on August 18, 1920. It was up to Tennessee to tip the scale for woman suffrage. Op. Cit.


7. The outlook appeared bleak, given the outcomes in other Southern states and given the position of Tennessee's state legislators in their 48-48 tie. The state's decision came down to 23-year-old Representative Harry T. Burn (1895-1977), a Republican from McMinn County, to cast the deciding vote. Although Burn opposed the amendment, his mother convinced him to approve it. (Mrs. Burn reportedly wrote to her son: "Don't forget to be a good boy and help Mrs. Catt put the 'rat' in ratification.") With Burn's vote, the 19th Amendment was ratified. Certification by U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby (1869-1950) followed on August 26, 1920. Op. Cit.



8. The National Women's Party led by Alice Paul became the first "cause" to picket outside the White House. Paul and Lucy Burns led a series of protests against the Wilson Administration in Washington. Wilson ignored the protests for six months, but on June 20, 1917, as a Russian delegation drove up to the White House, suffragettes unfurled a banner which stated; "We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. President Wilson is the chief opponent of their national enfranchisement".[24] Another banner on August 14, 1917, referred to "Kaiser Wilson" and compared the plight of the German people with that of American women. With this manner of protest, the women were subject to arrests and many were jailed.[25] On October 17, Alice Paul was sentenced to seven months and on October 30 began a hunger strike, but after a few days prison authorities began to force feed her.[24] After years of opposition, Wilson changed his position in 1918 to advocate women's suffrage as a war measure.[26] Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


a. During the 1912 presidential campaign against Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson and his opponent agreed on many reform measures such as child-labor laws and pro-union legislation. They differed, however, on the subject of women's suffrage, as Roosevelt was in favor of giving women the vote.
President Woodrow Wilson picketed by women suffragists — History.com This Day in History — 8/28/1917



So....thank you, Republicans....a great big hug from all of the women who have studied the history of this great nation!


Here's hoping that the obfuscaters of the Left cannot go on hiding and rewriting our past.


We know who really has a 'war on women.'

 

[Moonglow]

Well if the founding fathers were that great they would have let women vote from the get go.

 

[Bfgrn]

I am glad you support Patricia Pierce, who is a national delegate to Vision 2020.

Vision 2020 proudly welcomes AAUW as a National Ally.


President Barack Obama’s First 100 Days:
A Progress Report on AAUW Priority Issues


On April 29, President Barack Obama reached 100 days in office. Since Franklin Roosevelt’s time, a presidential administration’s first 100 days has been seen as an important barometer for a new administration. Successes and missteps are carefully cataloged and analyzed, and for this president the stakes are especially high. President Obama’s historic inauguration in January was a moment of great optimism and hope for America, but for any new administration the work begins long before the pomp and circumstance of Inauguration Day. Nominees are vetted, agendas are developed, and timelines are made. The same is true for advocacy organizations like AAUW. For months before the oath of office was administered, AAUW was engaged in an intensive effort to lay out our priorities and establish goals on a variety of issues for the new administration’s first 100 days. We consulted with the Obama transition team on many occasions and sent them prioritized position papers as well. AAUW also collaborated with coalition partners on issues of mutual concern and mobilized activists to ensure that our voices were heard. In short, we were prepared for the start of the new administration.

AAUW is pleased to report that over the first 100 days, we have enjoyed several policy successes. The first piece of legislation President Obama signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (S.181), a critical victory in the fight for pay equity that reversed the Supreme Court’s disastrous 2007 Ledbetter decision.1 AAUW was a leading voice in the effort to get the bill signed and had a front row seat—literally—when President Obama signed it into law. AAUW was further pleased that many of our top funding priorities were included in the economic recovery package known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: tax credits for working families, extended unemployment insurance for those out of work, and increased assistance to help students pay for college.2

In addition, President Obama signed into law an omnibus appropriations act that, among other things, increased funding for Pell grants, job training programs to retrain workers, and family planning programs.3 The Obama administration also released its FY2010 budget blueprint, which proposes various initiatives that will further decrease the cost of attending college, increase the availability of quality and affordable health care, and provide more assistance to working women and their families through job training and early child care funding.4 In March 2009, in honor of Women’s History Month, President Obama created the White House Council on Women and Girls, which will promote interagency collaboration and a coordinated federal response in addressing critical issues facing women and their families, as well as undertake further policy initiatives to advance gender equity.

This report is derived from and in keeping with policy positions laid out in AAUW’s Federal Policy Agenda and member-adopted Public Policy Program. AAUW fully understands and appreciates that no administration accomplishes all of its goals or meets all expectations in 100 days. We also recognize that certain priorities of the Obama administration must take precedence over others during this time of severe economic decline. However, AAUW believes just as strongly that issues of equity cannot be pushed aside; indeed, the more progress we make on achieving equity, the stronger and more prosperous our nation will become.

The Obama administration had some important achievements and built critical infrastructure during its jam-packed first 100 days, but of course much more remains to be done. AAUW is pleased to offer the following progress report of the administration’s first 100 days. In so doing, we provide our assessment of the administration’s progress, identify areas where more work can be done, and look forward to achieving more victories in the months and years ahead.

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[PoliticalChic]

Well if the founding fathers were that great they would have let women vote from the get go.

No remark could identify one as ignorant of history at that one.

Nor, as a better, more clear-cut example of what Shelby Steele was getting at here:

"At home the values that made us exceptional have been smeared with derision. Individual initiative and individual responsibility—the very engines of our exceptionalism—now carry a stigma of hypocrisy. For centuries America made sure that no amount of initiative would lift minorities and women. So in liberal quarters today—where historical shames are made to define the present—..."
Shelby Steele: Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism - WSJ.com


n liberal quarters today—where historical shames are made to define the present—..."

 

[PredFan]

How any self-respecting woman would vote democrat is beyond me.

 

[Moonglow]

Well if the founding fathers were that great they would have let women vote from the get go.

No remark could identify one as ignorant of history at that one.

Nor, as a better, more clear-cut example of what Shelby Steele was getting at here:

"At home the values that made us exceptional have been smeared with derision. Individual initiative and individual responsibility—the very engines of our exceptionalism—now carry a stigma of hypocrisy. For centuries America made sure that no amount of initiative would lift minorities and women. So in liberal quarters today—where historical shames are made to define the present—..."
Shelby Steele: Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism - WSJ.com

So in liberal quarters today—where historical shames are made to define the present—..."

n liberal quarters today—where historical shames are made to define the present—..."

Just like you and the writer, trying to shame liberals by using an example of the historical shames by "progressives, liberals, democrats" of the past, to define the present.
Works both ways. Really not that hard to see the irony and hypocrisy of the writer.
Instead of presenting and idea or statemnt that is neutral, you always try to post historical shames, a tired inception of bad debating, but let us not forget about that vindictive nature.

 

[Moonglow]

How any self-respecting woman would vote democrat is beyond me.

The ones that do not want to follow behind their men

 

[Bfgrn]

How any self-respecting woman would vote democrat is beyond me.

Yea, women need to know their place as second class citizens. Today's GOP is working very hard to protect that status.

Senate Republicans Vote Unanimously Against Bill To Help Guarantee Fair Pay For Women

Nov 17, 2010

Today, Senate Republicans voted unanimously against legislation to close the pay gap between women and men. The Senate voted 58-41 against allowing debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would help end discriminatory pay practices against women. It had already passed the House.

More than 45 years after passage of the Equal Pay Act, the pay gap shockingly persists with women still earning on average 77 cents to every man’s dollar. According to the National Women’s Law Center, “This persistent pay gap translates to more than $10,000 in lost wages per year for the average female worker.” The gap is even worse for women of color: African-American women earn 61 cents and Latinas earn 52 cents for every dollar a white non-Hispanic man earns.

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National Committee on Pay Equity

Current legislation

The National Committee on Pay Equity supports two bills in Congress aimed at curbing wage discrimination. The bills work on different aspects of wage discrimination, and both are needed to fully close the wage gap.

The Fair Pay Act (S.788, H.R.1493) is sponsored by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). It seeks to end wage discrimination against those who work in female-dominated or minority-dominated jobs by establishing equal pay for equivalent work. For example, within individual companies, employers could not pay jobs that are held predominately by women less than jobs held predominately by men if those jobs are equivalent in value to the employer. The bill also protects workers on the basis of race or national origin. The Fair Pay Act makes exceptions for different wage rates based on seniority, merit, or quantity or quality of work. It also contains a small business exemption.

The Paycheck Fairness Act (S.797, H.R.1519), sponsored by Senator Barbara Milkuski (D-MD) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), strengthens and updates the Equal Pay Act of 1963. The bill expands damages under the Equal Pay Act and amends its very broad fourth affirmative defense. In addition, the Paycheck Fairness Act calls for a study of data collected by the EEOC and proposes voluntary guidelines to show employers how to evaluate jobs with the goal of eliminating unfair disparities. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives on January 9, 2009. It was defeated in the Senate on a 58-41 procedural vote on Nov. 17, 2010 and again on June 5, 2012 on another 52-47 procedural vote that was strictly along party lines

 

[PredFan]

How any self-respecting woman would vote democrat is beyond me.

Yea, women need to know their place as second class citizens. Today's GOP is working very hard to protect that status.

Senate Republicans Vote Unanimously Against Bill To Help Guarantee Fair Pay For Women

Nov 17, 2010

Today, Senate Republicans voted unanimously against legislation to close the pay gap between women and men. The Senate voted 58-41 against allowing debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would help end discriminatory pay practices against women. It had already passed the House.

More than 45 years after passage of the Equal Pay Act, the pay gap shockingly persists with women still earning on average 77 cents to every man’s dollar. According to the National Women’s Law Center, “This persistent pay gap translates to more than $10,000 in lost wages per year for the average female worker.” The gap is even worse for women of color: African-American women earn 61 cents and Latinas earn 52 cents for every dollar a white non-Hispanic man earns.

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National Committee on Pay Equity

Current legislation

The National Committee on Pay Equity supports two bills in Congress aimed at curbing wage discrimination. The bills work on different aspects of wage discrimination, and both are needed to fully close the wage gap.

The Fair Pay Act (S.788, H.R.1493) is sponsored by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). It seeks to end wage discrimination against those who work in female-dominated or minority-dominated jobs by establishing equal pay for equivalent work. For example, within individual companies, employers could not pay jobs that are held predominately by women less than jobs held predominately by men if those jobs are equivalent in value to the employer. The bill also protects workers on the basis of race or national origin. The Fair Pay Act makes exceptions for different wage rates based on seniority, merit, or quantity or quality of work. It also contains a small business exemption.

The Paycheck Fairness Act (S.797, H.R.1519), sponsored by Senator Barbara Milkuski (D-MD) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), strengthens and updates the Equal Pay Act of 1963. The bill expands damages under the Equal Pay Act and amends its very broad fourth affirmative defense. In addition, the Paycheck Fairness Act calls for a study of data collected by the EEOC and proposes voluntary guidelines to show employers how to evaluate jobs with the goal of eliminating unfair disparities. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives on January 9, 2009. It was defeated in the Senate on a 58-41 procedural vote on Nov. 17, 2010 and again on June 5, 2012 on another 52-47 procedural vote that was strictly along party lines

I see that reading comprehension isn't one of your strong points. How you got "Women need to know their place" from my statement is unfathomable.

 

[Bfgrn]

How any self-respecting woman would vote democrat is beyond me.

Yea, women need to know their place as second class citizens. Today's GOP is working very hard to protect that status.

Senate Republicans Vote Unanimously Against Bill To Help Guarantee Fair Pay For Women

Nov 17, 2010

Today, Senate Republicans voted unanimously against legislation to close the pay gap between women and men. The Senate voted 58-41 against allowing debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would help end discriminatory pay practices against women. It had already passed the House.

More than 45 years after passage of the Equal Pay Act, the pay gap shockingly persists with women still earning on average 77 cents to every man’s dollar. According to the National Women’s Law Center, “This persistent pay gap translates to more than $10,000 in lost wages per year for the average female worker.” The gap is even worse for women of color: African-American women earn 61 cents and Latinas earn 52 cents for every dollar a white non-Hispanic man earns.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

National Committee on Pay Equity

Current legislation

The National Committee on Pay Equity supports two bills in Congress aimed at curbing wage discrimination. The bills work on different aspects of wage discrimination, and both are needed to fully close the wage gap.

The Fair Pay Act (S.788, H.R.1493) is sponsored by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). It seeks to end wage discrimination against those who work in female-dominated or minority-dominated jobs by establishing equal pay for equivalent work. For example, within individual companies, employers could not pay jobs that are held predominately by women less than jobs held predominately by men if those jobs are equivalent in value to the employer. The bill also protects workers on the basis of race or national origin. The Fair Pay Act makes exceptions for different wage rates based on seniority, merit, or quantity or quality of work. It also contains a small business exemption.

The Paycheck Fairness Act (S.797, H.R.1519), sponsored by Senator Barbara Milkuski (D-MD) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), strengthens and updates the Equal Pay Act of 1963. The bill expands damages under the Equal Pay Act and amends its very broad fourth affirmative defense. In addition, the Paycheck Fairness Act calls for a study of data collected by the EEOC and proposes voluntary guidelines to show employers how to evaluate jobs with the goal of eliminating unfair disparities. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives on January 9, 2009. It was defeated in the Senate on a 58-41 procedural vote on Nov. 17, 2010 and again on June 5, 2012 on another 52-47 procedural vote that was strictly along party lines

I see that reading comprehension isn't one of your strong points. How you got "Women need to know their place" from my statement is unfathomable.

I didn't get it from your statement. I see that literary techniques like sarcasm and irony are beyond your cognitive level. As I suspected...smile...

 

[PredFan]

Yea, women need to know their place as second class citizens. Today's GOP is working very hard to protect that status.

Senate Republicans Vote Unanimously Against Bill To Help Guarantee Fair Pay For Women

Nov 17, 2010

Today, Senate Republicans voted unanimously against legislation to close the pay gap between women and men. The Senate voted 58-41 against allowing debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would help end discriminatory pay practices against women. It had already passed the House.

More than 45 years after passage of the Equal Pay Act, the pay gap shockingly persists with women still earning on average 77 cents to every man’s dollar. According to the National Women’s Law Center, “This persistent pay gap translates to more than $10,000 in lost wages per year for the average female worker.” The gap is even worse for women of color: African-American women earn 61 cents and Latinas earn 52 cents for every dollar a white non-Hispanic man earns.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

National Committee on Pay Equity

Current legislation

The National Committee on Pay Equity supports two bills in Congress aimed at curbing wage discrimination. The bills work on different aspects of wage discrimination, and both are needed to fully close the wage gap.

The Fair Pay Act (S.788, H.R.1493) is sponsored by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). It seeks to end wage discrimination against those who work in female-dominated or minority-dominated jobs by establishing equal pay for equivalent work. For example, within individual companies, employers could not pay jobs that are held predominately by women less than jobs held predominately by men if those jobs are equivalent in value to the employer. The bill also protects workers on the basis of race or national origin. The Fair Pay Act makes exceptions for different wage rates based on seniority, merit, or quantity or quality of work. It also contains a small business exemption.

The Paycheck Fairness Act (S.797, H.R.1519), sponsored by Senator Barbara Milkuski (D-MD) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), strengthens and updates the Equal Pay Act of 1963. The bill expands damages under the Equal Pay Act and amends its very broad fourth affirmative defense. In addition, the Paycheck Fairness Act calls for a study of data collected by the EEOC and proposes voluntary guidelines to show employers how to evaluate jobs with the goal of eliminating unfair disparities. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives on January 9, 2009. It was defeated in the Senate on a 58-41 procedural vote on Nov. 17, 2010 and again on June 5, 2012 on another 52-47 procedural vote that was strictly along party lines

I see that reading comprehension isn't one of your strong points. How you got "Women need to know their place" from my statement is unfathomable.

I didn't get it from your statement. I see that literary techniques like sarcasm and irony are beyond your cognitive level. As I suspected...smile...

So you wanted to post literary techniques like sarcasm and irony, and for some reason you couldn't do it as a stand-alone post so you chose a post of mine where your so-called literary techniques were a total non-sequitur?

Yeah like I'm buying that bull shit.

 

[del]

1. "On Aug. 26, 1920 — 92 years ago today — women's right to vote became law after Tennessee's pivotal ratification of the 19th Amendment. Although it is not well known, Aug. 26 of each year since 1971 has been proclaimed a day of commemoration by U.S. presidents to celebrate the anniversary of women winning the right to vote and to serve as a "symbol of the continued fight for equal rights."
Patricia Pierce: Women must exercise their right to vote to gain true equality » Knoxville News Sentinel



2. It was a Republican who introduced what became the 19th Amendment, women’s suffrage. On May 21, 1919, U.S. Representative James R. Mann (1856-1922), a Republican from Illinois and chairman of the Suffrage Committee, proposed the House resolution to approve the Susan Anthony Amendment granting women the right to vote. The measure passed the House 304-89—a full 42 votes above the required two-thirds majority. 19th Amendment — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts

3. The 1919 vote in the House of Representatives was possible because Republicans had retaken control of the House. Attempts to get it passed through Democrat-controlled Congresses had failed.

4. The Senate vote was approved only after a Democrat filibuster; and 82% of the Republican Senators voted for it….and 54% of the Democrats.




5. 26 of the 36 states that ratified the 19th Amendment had Republican legislatures.

6. Two weeks later, on June 4, 1919, the Senate passed the 19th Amendment by two votes over its two-thirds required majority, 56-25. The amendment was then sent to the states for ratification. Within six days of the ratification cycle, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin each ratified the amendment. Kansas, New York and Ohio followed on June 16, 1919. By March of the following year, a total of 35 states had approved the amendment, one state shy of the two-thirds required for ratification. Southern states were adamantly opposed to the amendment, however, and seven of them—Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia—had already rejected it before Tennessee's vote on August 18, 1920. It was up to Tennessee to tip the scale for woman suffrage. Op. Cit.


7. The outlook appeared bleak, given the outcomes in other Southern states and given the position of Tennessee's state legislators in their 48-48 tie. The state's decision came down to 23-year-old Representative Harry T. Burn (1895-1977), a Republican from McMinn County, to cast the deciding vote. Although Burn opposed the amendment, his mother convinced him to approve it. (Mrs. Burn reportedly wrote to her son: "Don't forget to be a good boy and help Mrs. Catt put the 'rat' in ratification.") With Burn's vote, the 19th Amendment was ratified. Certification by U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby (1869-1950) followed on August 26, 1920. Op. Cit.



8. The National Women's Party led by Alice Paul became the first "cause" to picket outside the White House. Paul and Lucy Burns led a series of protests against the Wilson Administration in Washington. Wilson ignored the protests for six months, but on June 20, 1917, as a Russian delegation drove up to the White House, suffragettes unfurled a banner which stated; "We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. President Wilson is the chief opponent of their national enfranchisement".[24] Another banner on August 14, 1917, referred to "Kaiser Wilson" and compared the plight of the German people with that of American women. With this manner of protest, the women were subject to arrests and many were jailed.[25] On October 17, Alice Paul was sentenced to seven months and on October 30 began a hunger strike, but after a few days prison authorities began to force feed her.[24] After years of opposition, Wilson changed his position in 1918 to advocate women's suffrage as a war measure.[26] Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


a. During the 1912 presidential campaign against Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson and his opponent agreed on many reform measures such as child-labor laws and pro-union legislation. They differed, however, on the subject of women's suffrage, as Roosevelt was in favor of giving women the vote.
President Woodrow Wilson picketed by women suffragists — History.com This Day in History — 8/28/1917



So....thank you, Republicans....a great big hug from all of the women who have studied the history of this great nation!


Here's hoping that the obfuscaters of the Left cannot go on hiding and rewriting our past.


We know who really has a 'war on women.'

roosevelt had left the republican party to start the progressive party by 1912, you ignorant pinhead.

The Progressive Party of 1912 was an American political party. It was formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt, after a split in the Republican Party between himself and President William Howard Taft.
The party also became known as the Bull Moose Party when former President Roosevelt boasted "I'm fit as a bull moose," after being shot in an assassination attempt prior to his 1912 campaign speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1912)





you continue to redefine ignorant partisan hack, my little malkin wanabe.

kudos

 

[regent]

States decided who or who could not vote, and some states had already given women the franchise by 1920. But it was really the period in our history called the Progressive period that some marked changes occurred, and woman's suffrage was one of the biggies. Other changes were the beginning of business regulation, Pure Food and Drug Act, income tax, working condiditions and so on. If anyone should take credit for women's suffrage it should be the women, they did the deed wtih their marches and nagging. But it does make one feel good about America's ability to do the right things for its people on occassion rather than just the monied interests.

 

[PoliticalChic]

States decided who or who could not vote, and some states had already given women the franchise by 1920. But it was really the period in our history called the Progressive period that some marked changes occurred, and woman's suffrage was one of the biggies. Other changes were the beginning of business regulation, Pure Food and Drug Act, income tax, working condiditions and so on. If anyone should take credit for women's suffrage it should be the women, they did the deed wtih their marches and nagging. But it does make one feel good about America's ability to do the right things for its people on occassion rather than just the monied interests.

Wow...the word "Republican" has the same effect on you as a cross has for Dracula.

With history as the rubric, the Democrat are known as the party of

Slavery, Segregation, Sedition and Secularism.

 

[rdean]

1. "On Aug. 26, 1920 — 92 years ago today — women's right to vote became law after Tennessee's pivotal ratification of the 19th Amendment. Although it is not well known, Aug. 26 of each year since 1971 has been proclaimed a day of commemoration by U.S. presidents to celebrate the anniversary of women winning the right to vote and to serve as a "symbol of the continued fight for equal rights."
Patricia Pierce: Women must exercise their right to vote to gain true equality » Knoxville News Sentinel



2. It was a Republican who introduced what became the 19th Amendment, women’s suffrage. On May 21, 1919, U.S. Representative James R. Mann (1856-1922), a Republican from Illinois and chairman of the Suffrage Committee, proposed the House resolution to approve the Susan Anthony Amendment granting women the right to vote. The measure passed the House 304-89—a full 42 votes above the required two-thirds majority. 19th Amendment — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts

3. The 1919 vote in the House of Representatives was possible because Republicans had retaken control of the House. Attempts to get it passed through Democrat-controlled Congresses had failed.

4. The Senate vote was approved only after a Democrat filibuster; and 82% of the Republican Senators voted for it….and 54% of the Democrats.




5. 26 of the 36 states that ratified the 19th Amendment had Republican legislatures.

6. Two weeks later, on June 4, 1919, the Senate passed the 19th Amendment by two votes over its two-thirds required majority, 56-25. The amendment was then sent to the states for ratification. Within six days of the ratification cycle, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin each ratified the amendment. Kansas, New York and Ohio followed on June 16, 1919. By March of the following year, a total of 35 states had approved the amendment, one state shy of the two-thirds required for ratification. Southern states were adamantly opposed to the amendment, however, and seven of them—Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia—had already rejected it before Tennessee's vote on August 18, 1920. It was up to Tennessee to tip the scale for woman suffrage. Op. Cit.


7. The outlook appeared bleak, given the outcomes in other Southern states and given the position of Tennessee's state legislators in their 48-48 tie. The state's decision came down to 23-year-old Representative Harry T. Burn (1895-1977), a Republican from McMinn County, to cast the deciding vote. Although Burn opposed the amendment, his mother convinced him to approve it. (Mrs. Burn reportedly wrote to her son: "Don't forget to be a good boy and help Mrs. Catt put the 'rat' in ratification.") With Burn's vote, the 19th Amendment was ratified. Certification by U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby (1869-1950) followed on August 26, 1920. Op. Cit.



8. The National Women's Party led by Alice Paul became the first "cause" to picket outside the White House. Paul and Lucy Burns led a series of protests against the Wilson Administration in Washington. Wilson ignored the protests for six months, but on June 20, 1917, as a Russian delegation drove up to the White House, suffragettes unfurled a banner which stated; "We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. President Wilson is the chief opponent of their national enfranchisement".[24] Another banner on August 14, 1917, referred to "Kaiser Wilson" and compared the plight of the German people with that of American women. With this manner of protest, the women were subject to arrests and many were jailed.[25] On October 17, Alice Paul was sentenced to seven months and on October 30 began a hunger strike, but after a few days prison authorities began to force feed her.[24] After years of opposition, Wilson changed his position in 1918 to advocate women's suffrage as a war measure.[26] Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


a. During the 1912 presidential campaign against Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson and his opponent agreed on many reform measures such as child-labor laws and pro-union legislation. They differed, however, on the subject of women's suffrage, as Roosevelt was in favor of giving women the vote.
President Woodrow Wilson picketed by women suffragists — History.com This Day in History — 8/28/1917



So....thank you, Republicans....a great big hug from all of the women who have studied the history of this great nation!


Here's hoping that the obfuscaters of the Left cannot go on hiding and rewriting our past.


We know who really has a 'war on women.'

It's strange how Republicans want to take credit for anything that party did before the middle 60's when confederate conservatives fled the Democratic Party (Dixiecrats) and swelled the ranks of the Republican Party. Very, very strange.

 

[AmyNation]

Why does it matter which "party" did what 100 years ago? The partids are not static... The people, the positions are always in flux.

 

[PoliticalChic]

How any self-respecting woman would vote democrat is beyond me.

Economist John Lott has posited that progressive big government is a substitute for the benefits of marriage, and becomes a part of family for women, mainly those unmarried women with children.


You may find this interesting:

"A good way to analyze the direct effect of women's suffrage on the growth of government is to study how each of the 48 state governments expanded after women obtained the right to vote.

Women's suffrage was first granted in western states with relatively few women — Wyoming (1869), Utah (1870), Colorado (1893) and Idaho (1896). Women could vote in 29 states before women's suffrage was achieved nationwide in 1920 with the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

If women's right to vote increased government, our analysis should show a few definite indicators. First, suffrage would have a bigger impact on government spending and taxes in states with a greater percentage of women. And secondly, the size of government in western states should steadily expand as women comprise an increasing share of their population.

Even after accounting for a range of other factors — such as industrialization, urbanization, education and income — the impact of granting of women's suffrage on per capita state government expenditures and revenue was startling.



Per capita state government spending after accounting for inflation had been flat or falling during the 10 years before women began voting. But state governments started expanding the first year after women voted and continued growing until within 11 years real per capita spending had more than doubled. The increase in government spending and revenue started immediately after women started voting.


Yet, as suggestive as these facts are, we must still consider whether suffrage itself caused the growth in government, or did the government expand due to some political or social change that accompanied women's right to vote?

Fortunately, there was a unique aspect of suffrage that allows us to answer this question: Of the 19 states that had not passed women's suffrage before the approval of the 19th Amendment, nine approved the amendment, while the other 12 had suffrage imposed on them.

If some unknown factor caused both a desire for larger government and women's suffrage, then government should have only grown in states that voluntarily adopted suffrage. This, however, is not the case: After approving women's suffrage, a similar growth in government was seen in both groups of states.

Women's suffrage also explains much of the federal government's growth from the 1920s to the 1960s. In the 45 years after the adoption of suffrage, as women's voting rates gradually increased until finally reaching the same level as men's, the size of state and federal governments expanded as women became an increasingly important part of the electorate.


But the battle between the sexes does not end there. During the early 1970s, just as women's share of the voting population was leveling off, something else was changing: The American family began to break down, with rising divorce rates and increasing numbers of out-of-wedlock births.


Over the course of women's lives, their political views on average vary more than those of men. Young single women start out being much more liberal than their male counterparts and are about 50 percent more likely to vote Democratic. As previously noted, these women also support a higher, more progressive income tax as well as more educational and welfare spending.

But for married women this gap is only one-third as large. And married women with children become more conservative still. Women with children who are divorced, however, are suddenly about 75 percent more likely to vote for Democrats than single men. So as divorce rates have increased, due in large part to changing divorce laws, voters have become more liberal.



Women's suffrage ushered in a sea change in American politics that affected policies aside from taxes and the size of government. For example, states that granted suffrage were much more likely to pass Prohibition, for the temperance movement was largely dominated by middle-class women. Although the "gender gap" is commonly thought to have arisen only in the 1960s, female voting dramatically changed American politics from the very beginning."
Is There Really a Bias Against Women in Politics? History Suggests Otherwise | Fox News

 

[PoliticalChic]

Why does it matter which "party" did what 100 years ago? The partids are not static... The people, the positions are always in flux.

Well...not to you, but to folks paying attention, the last six months have seen an attempt by the Democrats to pretend that there is a Republican "War on Women."

You should get out more.


Of course, the attempt is part of a larger attempt to distract folks from considering what a flop Obama has been as President.

 

[Katzndogz]

When women demanded the vote it was because women believed that women could make intelligent decisions. If the women who fought for sufferage could have looked into the future and seen women today voting for a man because they fantasized over his big "swagga" they might not have bothered.

 

[PoliticalChic]

1. "On Aug. 26, 1920 — 92 years ago today — women's right to vote became law after Tennessee's pivotal ratification of the 19th Amendment. Although it is not well known, Aug. 26 of each year since 1971 has been proclaimed a day of commemoration by U.S. presidents to celebrate the anniversary of women winning the right to vote and to serve as a "symbol of the continued fight for equal rights."
Patricia Pierce: Women must exercise their right to vote to gain true equality » Knoxville News Sentinel



2. It was a Republican who introduced what became the 19th Amendment, women’s suffrage. On May 21, 1919, U.S. Representative James R. Mann (1856-1922), a Republican from Illinois and chairman of the Suffrage Committee, proposed the House resolution to approve the Susan Anthony Amendment granting women the right to vote. The measure passed the House 304-89—a full 42 votes above the required two-thirds majority. 19th Amendment — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts

3. The 1919 vote in the House of Representatives was possible because Republicans had retaken control of the House. Attempts to get it passed through Democrat-controlled Congresses had failed.

4. The Senate vote was approved only after a Democrat filibuster; and 82% of the Republican Senators voted for it….and 54% of the Democrats.




5. 26 of the 36 states that ratified the 19th Amendment had Republican legislatures.

6. Two weeks later, on June 4, 1919, the Senate passed the 19th Amendment by two votes over its two-thirds required majority, 56-25. The amendment was then sent to the states for ratification. Within six days of the ratification cycle, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin each ratified the amendment. Kansas, New York and Ohio followed on June 16, 1919. By March of the following year, a total of 35 states had approved the amendment, one state shy of the two-thirds required for ratification. Southern states were adamantly opposed to the amendment, however, and seven of them—Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia—had already rejected it before Tennessee's vote on August 18, 1920. It was up to Tennessee to tip the scale for woman suffrage. Op. Cit.


7. The outlook appeared bleak, given the outcomes in other Southern states and given the position of Tennessee's state legislators in their 48-48 tie. The state's decision came down to 23-year-old Representative Harry T. Burn (1895-1977), a Republican from McMinn County, to cast the deciding vote. Although Burn opposed the amendment, his mother convinced him to approve it. (Mrs. Burn reportedly wrote to her son: "Don't forget to be a good boy and help Mrs. Catt put the 'rat' in ratification.") With Burn's vote, the 19th Amendment was ratified. Certification by U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby (1869-1950) followed on August 26, 1920. Op. Cit.



8. The National Women's Party led by Alice Paul became the first "cause" to picket outside the White House. Paul and Lucy Burns led a series of protests against the Wilson Administration in Washington. Wilson ignored the protests for six months, but on June 20, 1917, as a Russian delegation drove up to the White House, suffragettes unfurled a banner which stated; "We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. President Wilson is the chief opponent of their national enfranchisement".[24] Another banner on August 14, 1917, referred to "Kaiser Wilson" and compared the plight of the German people with that of American women. With this manner of protest, the women were subject to arrests and many were jailed.[25] On October 17, Alice Paul was sentenced to seven months and on October 30 began a hunger strike, but after a few days prison authorities began to force feed her.[24] After years of opposition, Wilson changed his position in 1918 to advocate women's suffrage as a war measure.[26] Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


a. During the 1912 presidential campaign against Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson and his opponent agreed on many reform measures such as child-labor laws and pro-union legislation. They differed, however, on the subject of women's suffrage, as Roosevelt was in favor of giving women the vote.
President Woodrow Wilson picketed by women suffragists — History.com This Day in History — 8/28/1917



So....thank you, Republicans....a great big hug from all of the women who have studied the history of this great nation!


Here's hoping that the obfuscaters of the Left cannot go on hiding and rewriting our past.


We know who really has a 'war on women.'

It's strange how Republicans want to take credit for anything that party did before the middle 60's when confederate conservatives fled the Democratic Party (Dixiecrats) and swelled the ranks of the Republican Party. Very, very strange.

Bet the Democrats love folks like you who will swallow anything they tell 'em to...and regurgitate it ad infinitum.


BTW....

"The so-called “Dixiecrats” remained Democrats and did not migrate to the Republican Party. The Dixiecrats were a group of Southern Democrats who, in the 1948 national election, formed a third party, the State’s Rights Democratic Party with the slogan: “Segregation Forever!” Even so, they continued to be Democrats for all local and state elections, as well as for all future national elections."
Frequently Asked Questions | National Black Republican Association