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Date: 5/7/2023
Subject: eVOTER - May updates and more
From: LWV of Williamsburg Area

eVOTER

May 07, 2023 - Vol. 4, No. 15

Newsletter of the League of Women Voters of the Williamsburg Area

OUR LOCAL LEAGUE

MAY 10: GENERAL ASSEMBLY RECAP

Date & Time: May 10 at 7 PM

Place: Online (Zoom)

The Williamsburg Area League of Women Voters extended an invitation to Senators Tommy Norment and Monty Mason to join us virtually to provide a recap of the General Assembly session that ended February 25th.

Senator Mason (District 1) will be able to join us to provide a recap with a focus on our 2023 LWV-VA Legislative Priorities and where we go from here.

We will email a ZOOM link to all members.

JUNE 22: ANNUAL MEETING OF LWV OF WILLIAMSBURG AREA

This is an annual and important meeting where our membership elects members to fill positions on our Board of Directors, approves the 2023-2024 budget, and reviews local League positions and programs. We need a quorum to conduct business. Your attendance is important!

The meeting opens at 4PM with an address from our guest speaker, followed by the business portion of the meeting. Drinks and desserts will be served.

RSVP HERE

TRY THIS if you are unable to RSVP using the above link.

GUEST SPEAKER

Professor Spitzer, author of The Gun Dilemma: How History is Against Expanded Gun Rights, and many other publications, is professor emeritus of Political Science at the State University of New York at Cortland. He has served as Chair of the Political Science Department, and has been a member of the New York State Commission of the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. He retired to Williamsburg last year.

NOMINATIONS

The Nominating Committee has recommendation a candidate slate for you to vote on at the Annual Meeting. See

OUR SLATE

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!

Barbara Anderson, Jessica Anderson, Denise Brion, Theresa Brion, Lisa Ownby, Briar Ownby-Connolly, Angela Taormina

MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS

Your League membership renewal is on the anniversary of the month you originally joined.

Students aged 16+ are free.

JOIN | RENEW NOW

GREAT DECISIONS - JOIN OUR TEAM

From Don Schilling, Co-Coordinator of Great Decisions

I have now served for five years recruiting speakers to address the topics selected by the Foreign Policy Association’s Great Decisions Program and to arrange their visits either in person in the Williamsburg Regional Library Auditorium or on Zoom. It has been very rewarding to be part of this program, but next year will be my last in this position. I would like the transition to new leadership to be seamless, so I encourage anyone with a possible interest taking over in 2025 to contact me. We could have a team and not just an individual assuming this role. Next year we would do some training and I would expect to be around in 2025 to help out as needed.

I can be reached by email here: EMAIL ME or cell at 757-871-1775.

RECENT OBSERVER REPORTS

Read about latest developments at Colonial Behavioral Health:

READ HERE

Read about latest developments at the WJCC School Board:

READ HERE

LWV-WA BOARD MEETING

Board meetings are the first Wednesdays of the month at either 4 PM or 6 PM.

Our board meetings are open to all League members. We welcome you!

Our next Board meeting is

Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at 6:00pm

Patricia Schell Memorial Meeting Room - Williamsburg Library
515 Scotland Street, Williamsburg

STATE LEAGUE / STATEWIDE EVENTS

THE RIGHT TO VOTE

From Deb Wake, LWV-WA President

Deb Wake, our LWV of Virginia president:

"While the Virginia constitution gives the governor sole discretion over restoration of rights, our position holds that right restoration should be automatic and we have advocated for many years to make this change in our constitution.

At our convention to be held in Williamsburg June 2-4, delegates will have the opportunity to study the right to vote and whether our position should be expanded to protect a right to vote that is not abridged by law and/or that would permit 16 year olds to vote."

Please REGISTER for the May 16 caucus to learn more about the proposed study and contact Pam Berg if you would like to participate in the study."

PRESERVING DEMOCRACY IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE 41ST BIENNIAL LWV STATE CONVENTION

Join us at the LWV Virginia state convention June 2-June 4 in Williamsburg.

Come to a Caucus

There are online ZOOM convention caucuses - all at 7 PM:

May 16 | Proposed Study on the Right to Vote
May 17 | Education Equity Study
May 22 | Money in Politics Study
May 23 | Environmental Justice Study
May 30 | Proposed Budget
May 31 | Child Care Study

JUNETEENTH EVENT

JUNE 19: MIS/DIS INFORMATION

How Mis- and Dis- Information Targets People of Color

Virtual Event

June 19, 2023: 7-8 PM

Join this important discussion and hear from distinguished speakers on how communities of color are targeted for mis- and dis- information – impacting voting, jobs, housing, health, and many other avenues of life. Speakers include: Traci DeShazor, former Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Tameka D. Tunsil, Division Manager, Fairfax County Government, Behavioral Health Outpatient Program; Janel Jones Merritt, CFO, Digidoc

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The League has been an activist, grassroots organization since 1920.

We believe that citizens should play a critical role in voter education and advocacy.

LWV is proud to be nonpartisan, neither supporting nor opposing candidates or political parties.

League of Women Voters of Williamsburg Area
P O Box 1086
Williamsburg, VA 23187-1086
501(c)(4) organization

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