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AAUW celebrates 100th year of women’s voting rights
By SEASIDE AAUW
Aug. 26 marks the 100th
anniversary of the passage
of the 19th Amendment.
The amendment guarantees
and protects women’s con-
stitutional right to vote.
This is much more then
an anniversary celebration,
Denise Mitchell of Seaside
American Association of
University Women said.
“It is a call to get every-
one out to vote. AAUW
acknowledges how far we
have come, but there are
still so many voting chal-
lenges,” Mitchell said.
“AAUW is committed to
working towards access
and equity for all voter.”
AAUW came together
for this picture to celebrate
the women who fought for
decades, for the women
of color who struggled
decades longer to achieve
these same right, and for
the future generations of
girls who we encourage to
know that their vote is their
voice.
We owe it to the women
who fought so hard to be
informed and participate
in the electoral process.
AAUW is focused on con-
tinuing to uplift all women.
In Oregon, it’s impossi-
ble to talk about the wom-
en’s suffrage movement
without discussing Abi-
gail Scott Duniway. She is
SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
TIMELINE
Pre-1848 — Women have pushed
for the right to vote, to no avail.
1848 — The Seneca Falls Conven-
tion is credited with the begin-
ning of the organized suff rage
movement.
1848-1912 — Decades of advo-
cacy, letter-writing, conventions,
marches, protests, arrests, hunger
strikes as those who support
suff rage face enduring abuses.
1912 — Oregon women get the
right to vote.
1920 — The 19th Amendment,
giving the right to vote for wom-
en, is ratifi ed and becomes part
of the U.S. Constitution.
1965 — Women of color fi nally
get the right to vote with the
Voting Rights Act.
2020 — There still remain
challenges with voter access and
voting suppression.
— 1884, 1900, 1906, 1908,
1910.
The Oregon Equal Suf-
frage amendment was
passed when a major-
ity of men voted yes in
November 1912.
On Dec. 18, 1912, vot-
ers in Warrenton chose
Clara “Callie” Munson as
their mayor over her rival
male by a margin of 16
votes, making Munson the
fi rst women to hold elected
offi ce in Oregon follow-
ing the passage of the Equal
Suffrage Amendment the
previous month.
has gone on to Oregon State
and is completing his degree
this year.
The opportunities pro-
vided by Seaside have blos-
somed into fi ve local busi-
nesses for us.
We employ over 50 local
employees in the restaurant
industry.
Upon arriving in Sea-
side, we were thrilled
by the community here
and immediately became
involved. I have served six
years on the Seaside Cham-
ber of Commerce board of
directors. I have served on
the Seaside Transportation
Commission, and have pro-
vided almost three years of
service on the Seaside Plan-
ning Commission.
My desire is to con-
tinue serving our commu-
nity through the City Coun-
cil as your commissioner
for Ward 4.
I hope to be an open ear
and your voice on the coun-
cil as I serve our entire
community.
David Posalski
Seaside
R.J. Marx
Members of the Seaside chapter of AAUW at City Hall dressed in period clothing to celebrate 100 years of women’s suff rage.
remembered as the state’s
“mother of equal suffrage.”
Duniway was a pioneer
in the Pacifi c Northwest.
She devoted 40 years to
the cause. Oregon can look
back knowing women in
the 33rd state won the right
to vote eight years before
most other states.
The state was one of
the few states to recog-
nize women’s voting rights
before the passage of the
19th Amendment.
The efforts of Duni-
way and Oregon women
and men to secure wom-
en’s voting rights included
the issue being placed on
the ballot a record 6 times
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Sentiments were
repugnant
Re: “You are moving
here for a reason”
Who are you to tell
people how to vote? Your
letter is offensive. Your
letter reads like a threat.
This is the United
States of America and
in this nation and in this
state no one tells other
people who to vote for or
how to vote.
You are entitled to
vote for whomever you
please. So is every-
one else, no matter from
where they are moving or
why.
You make a lot of
assumptions about who is
moving here, from where,
and why. You also make a
lot of assumptions about
the people who currently
live here.
You clearly believe
that everyone who cur-
rently lives here and has
been living here thinks,
believes, feels and votes
the same way you do.
Telling people to vote
to “protect the reasons
that attracted you to move
here by voting for candi-
dates that clearly demon-
strate loyalty to protecting
our way of life” is appall-
ing and repugnant.
Voting is a personal
and private endeavor and
one of our most precious
rights in this country.
As demographics
change, so do the demo-
graphics of those who are
voted for as representa-
tives.
That is the beauty of
democracy.
Christina Buck
Seaside
Posalski to run
for City Council
My name is David Posal-
ski. My wife and I moved to
Seaside in 2010 to open Tsu-
nami Sandwich Company.
Seaside has done amaz-
ing things for our family.
Our son graduated from
Seaside High School and
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