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Romney Supporters Rally on the Capitol Steps
Mormon Women for Ethical Government joined with Salt Lake Indivisible, Stand Up Republic of Utah, Student Republicans of Utah, Republicans for the Rule of Law, and Alliance for a Better Utah on the south steps of the Utah capitol building on Friday to thank Utah Senator Mitt Romney for his courageous role in the 2020 presidential impeachment process.
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The Presidential Primary Pizza Party
By Amy Menlove Parker, MWEG Member February 27, 2020 A liberal, a centrist, and a conservative walk into a park. That’s how our parties started. While our kids played, we discussed how woefully uninformed we were about Utah’s 2018 midterms, and within an hour, with MWEG’s Voter Prep Parties in mind, we dreamed up a political preparation party we could invite our neighbors to. It was so much fun that two weeks ago, after discussing the Democratic candidates at another playdate, I messaged my friend and said, “Maybe we should have another political preparation party?” She replied, “Remove the maybe and the question mark.” In a series of just a…
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MWEG Impeachment Advocacy Timeline
In September, MWEG members across the nation began focusing attention on the impeachment process. Our response to this historic event was driven by a desire to help transform citizens as much as leaders. As the Ukraine scandal began to unfold, our members began crowd-sourcing neutral and comprehensive information about actors, processes, norms, and political relationships. As the House moved toward impeachment, we discussed together what the process would look like as well as historical precedent. Members communicated together on our Facebook discussion group, and leadership reached out with our newsletter, Facebook live events, and presentations on our internal platform. Our objective is always to learn together, gain knowledge and skills,…
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Delivering Gratitude to Senators Romney and Collins
MWEG members met with Senator Romney in person this morning and read our letter of gratitude out loud. You still have time to sign on to the letter thanking him for voting for witnesses in the impeachment trial! We will continue to send his office (and Senator Susan Collins’ office) names and comments as they come in (links below). Chocolate milk? ✔️Mint brownies? ✔️Thank you letter? ✔️Cute little guy? ✔️ For the video of an MWEG member reading our letter to Senator Romney, check out our Instastories. To sign on to the letter, click here. And follow these links to read selections of the comments left with the letters:
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January 2020 Full and Fair Trial Events in Utah
Last week, MWEG helped organize a cross-partisan coalition to advocate for a full and fair impeachment trial in the Senate. A prayer breakfast, news conference, and rally on Thursday in Salt Lake City, Utah, provided an opportunity to join our voice with others to pressure our elected officials to uncover truth, as is sought by the majority of American voters. The words spoken by our members at those events are deeply relevant to this moment in our history so we have shared the full text of each speech here. Prayer Breakfast: “(W)e also call upon fellow Utahns to view the actions and words of our elected officials involved in the…
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Full and Fair Trial Prayer and Action Breakfast Speech Text
January 16, 2020 Mormon Women for Ethical Government’s work is driven by four core attributes: We are faithful, nonpartisan, peaceful, and proactive. This morning, in this particular company, we want to share some of our ideas about the first of those attributes: What it means to be faithful in the context of civic engagement. For many of our members, faith is central to our advocacy and how we practice it. Faith drives us to participate in civic affairs because it demands that we love our neighbor as ourselves, and because where there is no vision the people perish. Because of our faith, we fight to preserve a society where each…
