Our US female readers should find this funny.

Hobbes

Never before have we seen political career suicide this bad since David Ike.

From the Kansas City Star:

Female state senator would have opposed amendment that gave women right to vote

By FINN BULLERS The Kansas City Star

A prominent female state senator has said that she does not support the 19th Amendment, which guarantees women the right to vote, and that if it were being considered today she would vote against it.

Sen. Kay O'Connor recently told the co-presidents of the Johnson County League of Women Voters that the amendment was the first step in a decades-long erosion of traditional family values.

The Olathe Republican was in the audience at a public affairs forum on juvenile justice at Johnson County Community College on Sept. 19, when league co-president Delores Furtado asked her if she was planning to attend the league's "Celebrate the Right to Vote" luncheon.

"You probably wouldn't want me there because of what I would have to say," O'Connor told Furtado after the forum had ended.

"Wasn't it in the best interest of our country to give women the right to vote?" Furtado asked the senator.

"Not necessarily so," O'Connor said.
Although she does vote, O'Connor said in two subsequent interviews with The Kansas City Star that if men had been protecting the best interests of women, then women would not be forced to cast ballots and serve in the state legislature. Instead, they could stay home, raise families and tend to domestic duties, she said.

O'Connor, the Senate's vice chairman of the elections and local government committee, said she could not help celebrate the 81-year-old piece of legislation, even though it gave her a statewide soapbox to share her views on everything from tax policy to school vouchers.

Asked if she supports the 19th Amendment, the Republican lawmaker responded: "I'm an old-fashioned woman. Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women (today) we wouldn't have to vote.

"I'm sorry women have not been taken more care of," she said. "We have gotten the short end of the stick."

If the measure were up for ratification today, she said, she would not support it.

Furtado said she was dumbfounded by those views.
If O'Connor was just an ordinary citizen, Furtado said, "I'd say fine." But when she serves in the Senate, she represents many people. "She is the beneficiary of a system she doesn't support."

Beginning in the 1960s, O'Connor said in an interview, career doors began to open for women, bolstered by efforts of the earlier women's suffrage movement. The message to women, reinforced by books, television and magazines, O'Connor said, was to abandon more traditional homemaker roles and enter the workplace.

And with the onset of higher taxes to finance social welfare programs, said O'Connor, a 15-year homemaker, a second household income was necessary to make ends meet.
Consequently, the 19th Amendment was the beginning of a societal shift that today erodes traditional family values, she said.

O'Connor said that in her case, mounting medical bills to care for a sick daughter forced her into the workplace. Rules created by men did not allow her the opportunity to stay at home and care for her child, she said.

Searching for something to do in retirement, O'Connor got into politics by accident when she was drafted by a neighborhood gathering to run for the House of Representatives in 1992.
O'Connor, who concedes she has a reputation for speaking her mind, said she was not afraid to let her view be known.

"My husband is the head of the household and I am the heart. And the head can't live without the heart," she said during the interview. "I offer my suggestions, but I give (my husband) the right to make the final decision."

As a state leader, O'Connor said, it is more important to stay true to her convictions than simply mirror the views of her constituents.

"And 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," she said. "And if the trips to Topeka get to be too much and my husband asks me to quit... I would."

O'Connor has just completed the first year of a four-year term in the Senate after serving eight years in the House of Representatives.

League co-president Janis McMillan also was surprised by O'Connor's views.

"It is mind-boggling," said McMillan. "Kay is proud of (her position) and isn't hesitant to tell anyone.

"To me, it sends the wrong message to women today that you don't need to use your mind -- just become an appendage to your husband."

The League of Women Voters is making final arrangements for its Oct. 9 luncheon.

The league hopes to hold a luncheon every year until 2020 -- the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment.

By then, organizers hope to have raised enough money to throw a yearlong community celebration to recognize women who blazed the trail for equal pay, the right to own property and the right to hold elected office.

Tickets, which cost $30, still are available.

sabre_azure

what kind of woman is she? surely it must be an urban myth..She needs a crash course in Germaine Greer

Magwitch

The fact she is a lawmaker is really scary, what is more scary is that she may even get re-elected! :eek:

Manach

Ah, someone I could vote for with a clear consience. I always knew this whole suffrage business was a mistake. With men deciding the policy issues we could concentrate on the true essentials:
Beer & football.

sabre_azure

not while theres breath in this chick's body:p

Ivan

Leave her at it, if it makes her happy then fine.

The whole point of an election is that someone gets alot of votes then they win a place on the government. If she's getting alot of votes then there must be a fair few ppl who agree with her, and well...thats their business...

But I must say I'll be the first one falling off my chair if women start campaigning for no-Rights-

Hehehehehehe

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Originally posted by sabre_azure
what kind of woman is she? surely it must be an urban myth..She needs a crash course in Germaine Greer

Serious LOL

Odd story indeed
Thx for the post Hobbes:)

MiCr0

details of the original story here:
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/local.pat,local/3acd030e.927,.html

Artemis

ROFL...

That is completely insane....

Interesting post though

sabre_azure

the most frightening thing about it is that theres a sort of logic to it:rolleyes:

azezil

That womans a genius! LMAO


probably be a bunch of hair ankle'd women over at my house anytime now! ROFL

Blitzkrieger

awww bless us! We'll have to take better care of our little women lads

Originally posted by Ivan
The whole point of an election is that someone gets alot of votes then they win a place on the government. If she's getting alot of votes then there must be a fair few ppl who agree with her

Not neccessarily. Increasingly people haven't a clue who or what they're voting for. The person with the better campaign wins - just look at who's president. In the recent vote on the Amsterdam treaty (I think it was Amsterdam ) a friend told me of a woman who voted no on all three issues (two had nothing to do with it) because she "wanted to abolish the death penalty". It was yes to abolish the death penalty :rolleyes: