Miers lecture series w/GLORIA STEINEM?!
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Oh my. Poor Phyllis Schafly. Poor me. I am giving Miss Meiers the benefit of the doubt, but this Peter Schmidt article in the Chronicle of Higher Education does not ease my fears.
"For someone both heralded and feared as a potentially conservative voice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Harriet E. Miers has played a key role in exposing college students to some unmistakably liberal ideas.
In the late 1990s, as a member of the advisory board for Southern Methodist University's law school, Ms. Miers pushed for the creation of an endowed lecture series in women's studies named for Louise B. Raggio, one of the first women to rise to prominence in the Texas legal community. A strong advocate for women, Ms. Raggio helped persuade state lawmakers to revise Texas laws to give women new rights over property and in the event of divorce.
Ms. Miers, whom President Bush announced on Monday as his choice to fill the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, not only advocated for the lecture series, but also gave money and solicited donations to help get it off the ground.
A feminist icon, Gloria Steinem, delivered the series's first lecture, in 1998. In the following two years, the speakers were Patricia S. Schroeder, the former Democratic congresswoman widely associated with women's causes, and Susan Faludi, the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991). Ann W. Richards, the Democrat whom George W. Bush unseated as governor of Texas in 1994, delivered the lecture in 2003. "
Pat Schroeder? Ann Richards? Richards spoke after Miers moved to DC for the Bush administration, but I want to know if she still has ties with an organization with a woman who has made a living off of belittling the Bush family.
Miers really does appear more-and-more like a liberal feminist who would support Roe.
Add this to her lack of qualifications, and it get scary.
I sure hope that she was not a serious candidate and is part of an elaborate plan to give us Janice Rogers Brown.
I had just joined because I heard about this story, and I was sure it was some trick. Don't tell me it's actually true?
She gave $150 16 years ago to Texans for Life. That is a commitment and a track record.
Anyone bother looking at who Louise Raggio is?
How about a personal friend of hers from the old days when they were both among the VERY first women in law firms in Dallas?
My response to (not you specifically, Joe) those spreading this as "proof" she's one of "them."
Do we have a loose cannon in our midst?