Posted by casey at June 3rd, 2005

How can a woman run for (and currently hold) a state elected position if you don’t support suffrage? The logic escapes me. Is she saying that she supports women working in the government — if a man says she can?

Her words (on Sept. 28th, 2001), not mine, about women’s suffrage:

“We have a society that does tear families apart … I think the 19th Amendment, while it’s not an evil in and of itself, is a symptom of something I don’t approve of.”

(The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote nationwide.)

“The 19th Amendment is around because men weren’t doing their jobs, and I think that’s sad. I believe the man should be the head of the family. The woman should be the heart of the family.

If I don’t get re-elected, my only punishment is to go home to my husband and my roses and my children and my grandchildren … And if the trips to Topeka get to be too much and my husband asks me to quit, I would.”

http://www.patriotboy.blogspot.com