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The Voter Vol. 68 No. 1

League of Women Voters

of Greater Tucson

September 2014 The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encour-ages the informed and active participation in government, works to increase

understanding of major policy issues, and influences public policy.

T a c k l i n g H u m a n T r a f f i c k i n gDuring its National Convention in June, the League of Women Voters of the U.S. voted to concur with a position on Human Trafficking, developed by the New Jersey League following a study of the issue. In addition to calling for multi-faceted efforts to prevent trafficking, the position sup-ports services for victims, and education and awareness programs in communities and schools.

Our local League begins its education and awareness efforts during our general meeting on September 20 at the Main Li-brary in downtown Tucson. The panel will provide an overview of this growing global problem, as well as discussing Arizona and Tucson ramifications. The meeting begins at 10 am, with refreshments available at 9:30.

R u n n i n g & W i n n i n g 2 0 1 4Shirley Sandelands Running and Winning Chair

The Running and Winning Workshop will be held at Flowing Wells High School September 11, 2014 and involves 60 young women students. They will meet with ten or more elected or campaigning

women to discuss how, when and why they got into politics. University of Arizona graduate students will facilitate the table discussions. We are happy to have Supe-rior Court Judge Karen Adam moderate the workshop. The high school girls will plan Senate campaigns and explain their ideas for government action. Once again, LWVGT will be working with two branches

of the American Association of University Women from Tucson and Casas Ado-bes, the Pima County/Tucson Women’s Commission and, the University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy for the funding, preparation and imple-mentation of the Workshop. For any questions, please call Shirley Sand-elands 465-1785.

2 0 1 4 B A L L O T - P RO P O S I T I O N SThe LWVAZ is working on the Voter Guide at this time and it will be in print, on the state and local Leagues websites and Facebooks.

Proposition 122: “Rejection of Unconstitutional Federal Actions” This would amend the Constitution to permit the state to restrict the actions of its personnel and the use of financial resources to purposes consistent with the U.S. Constitution by passing an initiative or referendum, passing legislation, or

pursuing any other legal remedy. If the state exercises its authority in such a way, the state and its political subdivisions are prohibited from using personnel or financial resources to enforce, administer or cooperate with the designated federal action or program.

Proposition 303: “Use of Investigational Drugs; Biological Products; Devices” This would allow a manufacturer to make available to an eligible patient an investigational drug, biological product

or device. The measure permits, but does not require, a health care insurer or state agency to provide coverage for the investigational drug, biological product or device.

Proposition 304: “State Legislators Salaries” This would raise the salaries for state legislators in Arizona from $24,000 to $30,000 per year, effective January 1, 2015.

Join Us!For this exciting program

at the monthly LWVGT Meeting September 20th 9:30am - Noon

Joel Valdez Main Library (Downtown)

September 9: - Eastside Unit Monthly Meeting

Noon, Discussion & Program Planning 6247 N. Pascola Circle Please RSVP to Shirley Sandelands

520.465.1785 | shirsande@yahoo.com

September 12: - Green Valley Unit Monthly Meeting

11:30am, Ballots & Reports La Posada Campus, Madera Rm (Floor 3) Please bring a salad to share for lunch Contact Sue Girardeau | 520.648.7969

- Saddlebrooke Unit Monthly Meeting 10:30am-Noon, Ballots & Reports Saddlebrooke 1 Clubhouse, Coyote Rm North Contact Laura Benson | 805.886.7519

September 16: - Northwest Unit Monthly Meeting

2:00pm , Ballot Issues Mountain View Fire (1175 W. Magee) Contact Janis Lee | 520.742.6951

September 18: - Midtown Unit Monthly Meeting

11:30am, Brown Bag Lunch 1820 N. Norton Ave (Rosemary Niemann’s) Contact Sue DeArmond | 520.326.6333

September 20: - Human Trafficking

9:30am - noon Joel Valdez Main Library | 101 N Stone Ave

October 6: - Deadline to register for 2014 vote - Statewide Candidate Forums October 7: - Eastside Unit Social Program

9:30am, Ward 2 Council Office 7575 E. Speedway Questions to Phylis Carnahan 520.885.3271 | prcarnahan@gmail.com

October 8: - Statewide Candidate Forums October 9: - Statewide Candidate Forum October 10: - Green Valley Unit Monthly Mtng

11:30am, TBA La Posada Campus, Madera Rm Contact Sue Girardeau | 520.648.7969

Green Valley members should bring a sack lunch or order a sandwich ($7.50) by calling

Ermaline at 520.625.1711 by Wednes-day, October 8.

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October 14: - Saddlebrooke Unit Planning Meeting 10:30am-Noon, w/ Career Day Volunteers Saddlebrooke 1 Clubhouse, Coyote Rm North

Contact Beverly Kloehn | 520.818.0914

October 16: - New Member Orientation

8:30am - 11:00am | Joel Valdez Main Library - Midtown Unit Monthly Meeting 11:30am, Brown Bag Lunch 1820 N. Norton Ave (Rosemary Niemann’s) Contact Sue DeArmond | 520.326.6333

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9:30am - noon Joel Valdez Main Library 101 N Stone Avenue

C a n d i d a t e F o r u m sThe League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson, teaming up with Arizona Public Media, hosted the first of six forums for candidates in statewide offices in 2014.Nearly 300 people attended the event at the Center for the Arts on the west cam-pus of Pima Community College on July 30th. AZPM taped the event for broadcast over several of their stations during the following week.The forum was moderated by Lorraine Rivera, host of AZPM’s “Arizona Week”.A large number of volunteers from LWVGT and AZPM helped make it an enjoyable experience for the people who attended. Several of the candidates told members of the League that this was the “most well organized” forum of the many they attended this year.The forums are, of course, free. But tick-ets are required. You’ll be able to request

your free tickets at lwvgt.org beginning in early September.Pima Community College was a sponsor and the League thanks Tucson Electric Power for its generous contribution of printing needs for the forums.

Candidate ForumsPima Community College West Campus

Proscenium Theater 2202 West Anklam Rd.

Monday, October 66:30 pm, Attorney General 7:45 pm, Arizona Corporation

Commission

Wednesday, October 86:30 pm, Superintendent of

Public Instruction 7:45 pm, Secretary of State

Thursday, October 9 6:30 pm, Governor

Please RSVP at www.lwvgt.org/2014PoliticalForums.html

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Listserv PSAOne of the primary ways League offi-cers communicate with our members is through our listserv. That’s an email service where we are able to send messages to our members about upcoming meetings, Action Alerts and more.

Right now, about 175 members are subscribed to the listserve. But we have nearly 200 members.

The League works hard not to overuse the listserve. Only essential items approved by the League President are sent. You will never receive any “spam” from the listserv. And con-trary to what some people believe, you cannot get a computer virus through the listserve.

If you don’t have an email address or a computer, you can always drop by one of the many Pima County libraries and use one of their computers. It’s free! And it’s easy to set up a free email address from one of many sites like gmail.com, yahoo.com, or Hotmail.com.

Our ability to operate is based on our ability to communicate well with our members. Please join the LWVGT list-serv. Just send an email to eNews@lwvgt.org to get started.

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October 18: - Pima Prospers, Ballot Issues

9:30am - Noon Joel Valdez Main Library 101 N Stone Avenue

October 21: - Northwest Unit Monthly Meeting

2:00pm , Ballot Issues Mountain View Fire (1175 W. Magee) Contact Janis Lee | 520.742.6951

*All LWVGT Board Meetings take place at 2pm at Aviva Children’s Services (153 S. Plumer)

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L W V G T N e w s A N o t e f ro m O U r P r e s i d e n T

Judy Moll 2014-2015 President

Welcome to the 2014-15 League year. I foresee this as being an exciting year for the League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson.At the LWVUS convention in Dallas in June, we adopted a concurrence on Human Trafficking and a new study on amending the Constitution, redistricting, and money in politics. Look at our calendar in the membership directory to see how we are addressing these topics this year. Our first general meeting on September 20 deals

with human trafficking.Another topic that we must be very in-terested in is voters’ rights. This is about equality and justice. We must make sure that every eligible voter can cast a ballot and is treated fairly at the ballot box. The Voter Service Committee can use a lot of help this fall with registering voters and securing volunteers to help with the five candidate forums that we are organizing in October with Arizona Pubic Media. Contact Sue DeArmond at ssdearmond@gmail.com. Membership is another topic that must concern all of us. We need a more diverse

membership. We need new leaders. We need mentors for our new members. I challenge each of you to bring a friend to our meetings and get one of them to join. If each of us brought in a new member, it would strengthen our League tremendous-ly. Our membership chair, Thais Rutledge Young, has been working diligently to grow partnerships and coalitions with other organizations. She can use your help, as well. Contact her at th.ais@me.com.Please take advantage of all the League has to offer and get involved!

C o m m u n i c a t i o n sRoxanne Housley Communications Chair (& Temporary Voter Editor)

This month’s Voter has a new look, cour-tesy of Liz Fausett, Organizational Systems Manager, International Studies Association at the University of Arizona. Liz has been working closely with Shirley Sandelands and others involved with Running & Win-ning to streamline their materials and give them a more current look and feel. I was able to entice her to help redesign and format this month’s Voter.The overarching idea for the Voter was to make it easier to read by keeping font type and size consistent; providing an actual calendar for ease in seeing the various ac-

tivities and programs through the month along with giving more detailed informa-tion about each item in the margins of the calendar. Since the newsletter is copied in black & white, Liz wanted to improve the visuals and photos so they appear cleaner and crisper. I worked closely with Judy Moll and gained valuable insight from Grace Evans and others before making changes. I want to thank Liz for her amazing talent and dedi-cation to this project. Please take a little time to adjust to this new style and then share your thoughts with me. Of course, I want to hear the good stuff but know you will have suggestions and changes that will only make the next issue better (roxanne.housley@gmail.com)!

M e m b e r s h i pThaïs Rutledge Young Vice President | Membership Chair

Welcome to the newest members! Sally Weed not only joined the League but is also our New Member Records Adminis-trator. Welcome and thank you to Sally, Judith Roth (Green Valley), Jen Darland

(Midtown), Ilene Skinner and Patricia Fink (SaddleBrooke), Maureen

Salz (Northwest), and Robert Frederiksen (Eastside). If you

recently joined and your name is not listed,

please email: Thais@lwvgt.org.Much appreciation to the Leaguers who made that special effort to reach out to members reminding them it was time to renew their membership, especially Carol West! And, to those of you who “talked up the League” and encouraged League interest!Thanks to those of you who have either re-newed your membership, recently joined, volunteered, or have stated your intention to become members. You are the LWVGT’s foundation and strength. Each of us has our separate and unique story about why and how we engage, and choose to con-

tribute our resources. We’d like to tap into the “how” you engage by urging you to attend the September General Meeting, as well as encouraging you to bring a guest (or two). The topic will be “Human Trafficking”, a new LWVUS position. If you bring a guest, you will be eligible to participate in a raffle for a gift certificate.New Member Orientation has been sched-uled: Thursday, October 16 at the Joel Valdez Library at 8:30 a.m. It will be open to members, volunteers and those who subscribe to the Valued Interested People mailing list.

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Found: EditorWe are pleased to announce that Freda Johnson has agreed to be this year’s Voter newsletter editor. She has the organizational and editing skills necessary for the job!

The LWVGT Board unanimously ap-proved to publish two full-size Voter newsletters and four or five small-er versions annually. We will save on expenses and eliminate some redundancies from one newsletter to the next. The all-important monthly program information and calendar will be standard in every newsletter.

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Sue DeArmond Vice President | Voter Service Chair

Library Project In Full SwingLeague members are assisting and en-couraging library patrons to vote and/or register to vote before the General Elec-tion registration closes on October 6. The Library Project focuses on six libraries in low voter turnout areas in Tucson. Volun-teers are at these sites 2 days before voter registration closes. Registering voters is very rewarding, please consider joining us by calling me at 425-5761.

Bookends Project Continues(registering high school students and assisted living voters)LWVGT Units and individuals have contin-ued to register voters in their neighbor-hood schools and assisted living facilities. Since May, we’ve registered or reregis-tered 20 voters. Thanks to those who are participating. Good job! Let’s do more in 2014-15!Contact Voter Service Chair, Sue DeAr-mond, for more information about the committee’s projects.

L W V G T A n n u a l M e e t i n gGini McGirr Advocacy Director

The Mountain Oyster Club provided an exceptional venue for 55 members and guests that attended the Annual Meeting and luncheon with President Phylis Carna-han presiding. Members adopted a bud-get, a revision of the Affordable Housing position and the local program positions. New board members elected were: Presi-dent, Judy Moll; 2nd Vice President, Nancy Pfafflin; Secretary, Dorothy Riley; and Directors, Steve Roseman, Paula Wilk and Roxanne Housley. Off-board: Carol West,

Nominating Chair. Reports were given on the Library proj-ect, Running & Winning and Voter Ser-vice. Carol West advised that the League Birthday Party, Holiday Brunch and Issues & Eggs breakfast netted $12,000. Bob Richardson showed the new Public Service Announcements on returning ballots and voter education for Independents that were produced in English & Spanish.The luncheon speaker was Jane Prescott-Smith, Managing Director, National Insti-tute of Civil Discourse, whose topic was “Civil Discourse: The Antidote to Political Dysfunction.”

Carnahan recognized the office volunteers with a gift: Lu Kembel, Trish O’Flaherty, Phyllis Wasserman, Grace Evans, Carol West, Dorothy Riley and Silke Hoffman. A special gift was given to Lu Kembel for her 21 years of service in the office. Sue Gi-rardeau was recognized for all the goodies she brings to the meetings and Leslie Kahn received our thanks for maintaining the listserv.A gift and flowers were presented from the board to out-going president Phylis Carnahan for her exceptional leadership the past two years in keeping the League visible and viable.

L W V G T C o u n c i l M e e t i n gGini McGirr Advocacy Director

The Council meeting was held at the State/Metro Phoenix office on May 17-18 with 21 delegates and 13 non-voting members in attendance. Judy Moll, Nancy Pfafflin and Marion Pickens were delegates from Greater Tucson. Also attending as state board members from Tucson were Gini

McGirr, Secretary, and Off-board Shirley Sandelands, Nominating Chair.Delegates adopted the budget and elected officers and board members. Joining the board were: Sue Ward, 1st VP, Mary Gresham, 2nd VP, Patsy Frannea and Shir-ley Sandelands, co-treasurers. Continuing board members are: Robyn Prud’hom-me-Bauer, President; Gini McGirr, Secre-tary; Dana Johnston and Sandra Goodwin,

Directors.The workshops were on Advocacy and Voter Service and the Luncheon speaker was Casey Dreher, AZ Student’s Associa-tion.

LWVGT Board, 2014-2015

(from left to right) Steve Roseman/Social Policy, Thaïs Rutledge Young/VP-Member-ship, Roxanne Housley/Communications, Gini McGirr/Advocacy, Dorothy Riley/Secretary, Judy Moll/President, Nancy Pfafflin/VP-Program, Sue DeArmond/VP-Voter Service, Patricia Frannea/Treasurer. (Not pictured: Maxine Good-man/Public Relations & Paula Wilk/Education)

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2014 Elections Reminders

Last day to register for the General Election: October 6th If you have moved, update your information at ServicieArizona.com

Early Ballots mailed: October 9th Remember to mail them back

General Election: November 4th

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N e w s : F ro m N a t i o n a l & S t a t eNews from NationalThe LWVUS sent a letter to U.S. Senators urging them to pass the Disclose Act of 2014. This Act would ensure that voters know the identity of donors who have been secretly financing campaign expendi-tures in federal elections.The League joined an amicus brief in the case of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. This ruling dealt a serious blow to wom-en’s right to equal health care in America. “Denying women access to health care coverage based on ill-defined religious or moral objections of their employers is a step backwards in the long-fought battle towards equal rights,” said LWVUS presi-dent, Elisabeth MacNamara, “The religious beliefs of owners of corporations should not be used to defeat the rights of other

people.” On the one year anniversary of the Su-preme Court’s decision to gut the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, the Senate Judiciary Commit-tee held a hearing on the Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 (VRAA). This is the first step to ensuring voting rights are protected. Members were urged to write their Representatives to move forward on voting rights.

News from StateThe LWVAZ and LWVGT launched the PSAs on getting out the vote and for indepen-dents to vote in the primary election. The Tucson members did a great job on this.The LWVAZ was an honoree at the 4th An-nual “Acknowledging AZ Advocates” buffet

on August 20 in Phoenix. This event is an annual appreciation of individuals and organizations that have made a difference in Arizona.At the 2012 election, AZ ranked 45th in the nation for voter turnout, with 53% of eligible Arizonans voting. The state League is teaming with the O’Connor House to launch The Great Voting Challenge to elevate the national ranking by increasing registration by 10% and encouraging the turnout at the polls.A Membership, Leadership and Develop-ment (MLD) training session was held in Surprise on August 8th on How to be an Ef-fective Board Member. Peggy Hill, LWVUS MLD national coach, led the session.

N a t i o n a l L W V C o n v e n t i o nGini McGirr Advocacy Director

The 51st National Convention was held on June 6-10, 2014, in Dallas, Texas. Attending the convention from Tucson were Judy Moll and Paula Wilk as GT delegates and Gini McGirr as LWVAZ delegate. There were 9 delegates from Arizona.There were 633 voting delegates with 49 states represented. President Elisabeth MacNamara will lead the National League for a third term. The banquet speaker was Wade Goodwyn, National Public Radio, talking on what is happening in Texas. The delegates adopted a concurrence on Human Trafficking; a three-part program of a study on the process to amend the U.S. Constitution, a review of the cam-paign finance positions and review of the redistricting process.Resolutions adopted were: Support of a price on carbon emissions; restoration of

voting rights for persons convicted of a

felony, and campaign finance.The Membership, Leadership and Devel-opment (MLD) process was talked about during convention. The program has increased membership across the states with all 50 states now in the program. This is funded by donations and during the convention, whatever members donated, an “Angel” matched dollar for dollar. The last day of convention found the fund had grown by $68,439. An update on June 24th found donations had reached $40,000 so now the fund is at $80,000.LWVAZ president Robyn Prud-hom-me-Bauer used her minute on the Role Call of the States to plug the PSAs and the

LWVGT candidate forums in collaboration with the public service media. The PSAs on the independent voter and returning the mail-in ballots were played quite a few times on the big screens. Great to have this big voice coming out over the speak-er giving the names of LWV Arizona and Greater Tucson.The Omni Hotel even had a giant LWV logo in colored lights on the outside of the ho-tel. Hope you got to see this on Facebook.

LWVGT Awards The League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson extends its congratulations to Betty Geehan, recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and Sue DeArmond, re-cipient of this year’s League Member of the Year Award. Thank you both for all you do!

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I n R e m e m b r a n c eThe League was saddened to learn of the passing of two members this summer; Jeanne Bulloch and Lillian Ste-phenson. We extend our condolences to their families.

O U r T h a n k sLu Kembel RetiresThe Board and the mem-bership of the League owe Lu Kembel, our member records admin-istrator for the past 21 years, a huge thank you for her years of dedi-cation to the League.

She kept our records with diligence and dependability. She also played a big role in the office, volunteering every Monday. We owe her a debt of gratitude and wish her well in her “retirement” from the League.

DR. HELEN S. SCHAEFER RECEIVES Shelley AWARDThe 2014 Governor’s Arts Awards present-ed the 9th annual Shelley Award to League member Dr. Helen S. Schaefer and her husband, Dr. John P. Schaefer.The award is presented to an individual/individuals who have advanced the arts through strategic and innovative work in creating and supporting public policy

beneficial to the arts in Arizona.Helen Schaefer is the former chair of the U of A College of Humanities Advisory Board and a longtime member of the Poetry Center Development Committee. The Helen P. Schaefer Building today is home to the Arizona Poetry Center, which hous-es one of the nation’s most exceptional library collections of contemporary poetry and is dedicated to the advancement and celebration of poetry.Congratulations, Dr. Schaefer!

VICTOR BOWLEG RECEIVES TEEN COURT SERVICE AWARDThe Pima County Teen Court held its annual Volunteer Awards Dinner at the Hotel Congress on Thursday June 26th, 2014. League member Victor Bowleg was one of several volunteers acknowledged for 10+ years of service to Pima County Teen Court with his name being placed on a plaque that will be placed in the Teen Court Office. Victor volunteers as a Judge with Teen Court.Pima County Teen Court began in Janu-ary 1995 as a flagship program of Pima Prevention Partnership. Pima County Teen

Court is a diversion program for minors that have been arrested and have ad-mitted guilt to their crime. These teens choose to be sentenced by a jury of their peers instead of going through the juve-nile justice court system. All participants are teens, except for the judge. Adelita Grijalva serves as the Director of Teen Court and Kate Spaulding serves as the Volunteer Coordinator.Victor was unable to attend the awards dinner as he had to teach a class that night. That is dedication. Congratulations, Victor!

Thanks to our Issues & Eggs Corporate Sponsors

P ro f i l i n g J u d y M o l l

Judy grew up in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. She graduated from the University of Illinois

with a degree in Special Education. She taught children who were deaf and hard of hearing for six years before she had her two sons.In 1968 Judy joined the League in Charles-ton, Illinois where her husband was a zool-ogy professor at Eastern Illinois University.

Judy was elected to the board the next year and attended her first board meeting with her three day old son. Judy served as President, Program VP, and director of several studies during her 31 years with that League.Judy and her husband Ed lived in Panama and Malaysia while Ed did research on tropical turtles. They have since travelled to many spots around the world.They moved to Tucson in 2000 after retire-ment and have been very busy with varied activities. Judy is a part-time employee at Aviva Childrens’ Services where she writes life books for children in foster care. She

also goes to the gym regularly, walks three miles a day, and reads when she has time. She adores her two grandchildren who live in Longmont, CO. She and Ed have been married for 54 years.Judy looks forward to working with the League Board and members over the next two years.

Judy Moll 2014-2016 President

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