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Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. UBB Code™ Images not permitted.	[QUOTE]Originally posted by KittenGoddess: [QB] Check out the recent controversy in Kansas... [URL=http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/politics-elections.pat,local/3acd030e.927,.html]Suffrage doesn't please female Kansas state senator[/URL] [URL=http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/politics-elections.pat,local/3acd0358.928,.html]Update: O'Connor attempts to clarify remarks on women's suffrage[/URL] [URL=http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/local.pat,local/3acd0732.a03,.html]Pressure grows on O'Connor over views on women's right to vote[/URL] The gist of the articles is that State Senator Kay O'Connor made comments that she didn't support women's sufferage and that she wouldn't vote for it if asked today. [QUOTE]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.[/QUOTE] And later the article goes on to say... [QUOTE]"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."[/QUOTE] The entire situation simply drips with irony...a woman, who doesn't support sufferage, and doesn't believe women should have to make these decisions, is a state senator? I also think it begs the question about what her decisions are really based on. Basically she endorses the old idea of "coverture"...in other words, that a woman is 'covered by' her husband, her responsibility is to mirror his views. So if this is her stand, and that is more important to her than to stand for the people who elected her...then who is really casting her votes? And, is she being honest and fair with her constituents by not necessarily representing them? Does she make her decisions, or does she simply mirror her husband's political opinions? Any thoughts? ~KittenGoddess Scarleteen Advocate [/QB][/QUOTE]

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