Donate to WERU Today!Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters of Maine
The mostly volunteer team at the League of Women Voters – Downeast who plan and coordinate this series includes: Martha Dickinson, Michael Fisher, Starr Gilmartin, Maggie Harling, Lisa Leaverton, Ann Luther, Rick Lyles, Judith Lyles, Wendilee O’Brien, Maryann Ogonowski, emerita, Lane Sturtevant, Leah Taylor, and Linda Washburn.
Democracy Forum: Participatory Democracy, encouraging citizens to take an active role in government and politics
This month:
– Some of them are citizen initiatives; some of them are constitutional amendments. What’s the difference?
– What do they mean, what will they do, where did they come from, who supports and who opposes, and whose money is being spent?
Guest/s:
Will Hayward, Advocacy Program Director, LWVME – www.lwvme.org/lwvme-staff
Steve Mistler, Maine Public’s chief politics and government correspondent – www.mainepublic.org/people/steve-mistler
To learn more about this topic:
www.lwvme.org/www.vote411.org
www.maine.gov/meopa/
www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/upcoming/ballotquestionsnov2023.html
www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/upcoming/pdf/citizensguide23.pdf
www.mainepublic.org/tags/political-pulse
archives.weru.org/democracy-forum/2023/04/democracy-forum-4-21-23-ballot-questions-whose-initiatives-are-they/
About the host:
Ann currently serves as Treasurer of the League of Women Voters of Maine and leads the LWVME Advocacy Team. She served as President of LWVME from 2003 to 2007 and as co-president from 2007-2009. In her work for the League, Ann has worked for greater public understanding of public policy issues and for the League’s priority issues in Clean Elections & Campaign Finance Reform, Voting Rights, Ethics in Government, Ranked Choice Voting, and Repeal of Term Limits. Representing LWVME at Maine Citizens for Clean Elections, she served that coalition as co-president from 2006 to 2011. She remains on the board of MCCE and serves as Treasurer. She is active in the LWV-Downeast and hosts their monthly radio show, The Democracy Forum, on WERU FM Community Radio -which started out in 2004 as an recurring special, and became a regular monthly program in 2012. She was the 2013 recipient of the Baldwin Award from the ACLU of Maine for her work on voting rights and elections. She joined the League in 1998 when she retired as Senior Vice President at SEI Investments. Ann was a founder of the MDI Restorative Justice Program, 1999 – 2000, and served on its Executive Board.
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