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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…
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Full and Fair Trial Press Conference Speech Text
January 16, 2020 My name is Debra Coe, and I am a Republican. My name is Neca Allgood, and I am a Democrat. My name is Catherine Eslinger, and I am a member of the United Utah party. We are all members of Mormon Women for Ethical Government, also known as MWEG. People often ask why MWEG continues to advocate so forcefully for a full and fair impeachment trial. They are surprised that this particular group of women would be so bold. We do this because, in this destructive partisan climate, we believe the only way to heal our nation is to uncover truth and start building consensus around it.…
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Full and Fair Trial Rally Speech Text
January 16, 2020 My name is Brooke Nelson, and I am a lawyer and a mom of two young children. My name is Tracy Nuttall, and I am also a lawyer and mother. We are members of Mormon Women for Ethical Government. We are here today representing the over 7,000 members of our organization. We are Republicans. We are Democrats. We are Independents and the unaffiliated. Our combined voices represent the majority of American voters, and we believe that as voters, we have a duty to remind our government leaders of their obligation to govern in truth. The overwhelming evidence brought to light in recent investigative efforts regarding our president,…
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MWEG 2019 Highlights
As we bid farewell to 2019, we took a moment to celebrate some of our most exciting moments from the year. In 2019, we: held our most successful fundraiser to date on Giving Tuesday, receiving more than $15K in donations from 200+ individual donors released the MWEG Principles of Ethical Government as a foundational document, along with new educational materials on topics ranging from media literacy to the 2020 census created the MWEG portal online, where members can log in for writing resources, discussion questions, and a place to connect with MWEG apart from social media platforms sold out tickets to our second annual spring conference with more than 200…
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Advocating for Refugees in Arizona
By Christie Black, MWEG Arizona Member and Senior Director of Engagement November 21, 2019 Many members of the MWEG Arizona chapter are committed mentors of refugee families in cities throughout the state. We have spent countless hours preparing for, resettling, teaching, serving alongside, and loving our new friends who are fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries. We have watched with dismay as the numbers of refugees the U.S. will accept drops each year, and our hearts fill with sadness for those who are left in limbo, waiting for the opportunity to resettle in a new home. October was an abysmal month in particular, as no refugees were admitted…
