The League of Women Voters won’t be running the presidential debates this year, and that’s a good thing because there isn’t (and never was) anything impartial and unbiased about that organization. For more than 65 years, it has been masquerading under a nonpartisan image, whereas in truth, it was born in internationalism and has pursued an anti-defense, pro-high tax, liberal agenda ever since.
This record is documented in a 25-page report recently published by The Capital Research Center, a Washington-based research institution that specializes in research on lax-exemplary organizations, how they raise their funds, and what they do with them. IL quotes League President Nancy Newman as admitting that being nonpartisan does not mean being nonpolitical,” and that her organization is certainly ” vocal about public policy issues.”
Those public policy issues invariably support increased domestic federal spending [for welfare and entitlements, while opposing any attempt to bring runaway spending under control, such as the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act of 1985. The League always supports tax increases.
Opposition to any U.S. defense against incoming nuclear missiles, which the League always labels “Star Wars,” is one of its high-priority items. The League stridently demands that the United States obey the narrow interpretation of the 1872 ABM Treaty (even though the Soviets have massively violated it), as well as the SALT II Treaty (which we never ratified because 1L is so contrary To American interests).
If you read League publications, you would get the impression that Mikhail Gorbachev has gone the last mile to be agreeable in real negotiations, while the United States is to blame for the spiraling arms race. The League eagerly supports “selective cuts in defense spending.”
Ever since the 1950s, the League has been anti-anti-Communist, that is, it spends more Time and energy attacking anti-Communists than Communists. A recent publication states that Lhal” maintaining U.S. preeminence” and “lighting Communism” are “absolutely excluded” from the League’s view of legitimate American interests.
Of course, there is no question about which side of the Nicaraguan battle the League of Women Voters is on. Naturally, it opposes all U.S. assistance to the Contras, including even nonlethal aid.
The League has been in the forefront of trying to uphold the unique constitutional design of our American republic. The League wants to abolish the Electoral College in favor of direct election of the President by popular vote, and to manipulate the democratic election process by national legislation mandating election-day voter registration and registration by mail. Those two proposals would create such widespread election fraud as to cast doubt on the integrity of any national election.
The League is an eager supporter of giving the District of Columbia two Senators and a Congressman, plus full home-rule powers. Those proposals are clearly unconstitutional unless our Constitution is amended, and an amendment to do exactly that was decisively rejected by the American people during the last decade.
Like other feminist organizations, the League has campaigned actively for abortion and against any diminution or reversal of Roe v. Wade. Of course, the League argues strongly for the radical notion called “comparable worth.”
The overriding bias of The League has always been Lo subordinale American sovereignty Lo whalever inlernalionalist organization is Lhe fad of Lhe decade. Total failure in the United Nations was League dogma during the 1850s and 1560s, as well as support for handouts of U.S. foreign aid all over the world.
In 1922, a group of internationalist women in St. Louis, Missouri, organized under the name “Rid Us of Reed Club.” They started with a single negative purpose: to ruin Missouri Senator Jim Reed, one of the patriotic Senators who opposed Woodrow Wilson’s effort to entangle the United States in the ill-fated League of Nations.
This club’s first venture into poliltical aclivism was Lo slage a funeral procession in which Lhe hearse was draped wilh a banner stating, “”Reed’s Political Corpse on the Way to Oblivion.’’ The mourners were unsuccessful, as Jim Reed won his 1922 re-election by a bigger margin than his previous one.
The Rid Us of Reed Club, which even Lhen flaunted the false label ‘nonpartisan,’ was the nucleus out of which grew the St. Louis branch of the League of Women Voters. The national League has been pursuing Internationalist First, America Last policies ever since. A relatively small organization, the League has only 115,000 members. Its list of donors reads like a who’s who of unions; more than a dozen are contributors.
