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Montana ballot measure urging equal number of men, women in Legislature passes first test
Politics - FoxNews.com ^ | March 12, 2014 | Staff

Posted on 03/17/2014 12:51:44 PM PDT by QT3.14

A ballot measure in Montana that would require an equal number of men and women to serve in the state Legislature is a step closer to getting on the November ballot.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: diversity; montana; quota; voting
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What's next? A quota for Race, Sexual Pref, etc., etc?

Commenter at link thinks one of the reasons to have more women onboard is they tend to vote for more government.

1 posted on 03/17/2014 12:51:44 PM PDT by QT3.14
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WTF? In Montana?


2 posted on 03/17/2014 12:52:31 PM PDT by dfwgator
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How is this even close to constitutional?


3 posted on 03/17/2014 12:52:44 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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Why?


4 posted on 03/17/2014 12:52:52 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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Lots of lefties in Montana I mean look at their senators


5 posted on 03/17/2014 12:53:34 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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I know it is a cold winter, obviously a bunch of people’s brains have frozen in Mt.


6 posted on 03/17/2014 12:53:38 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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“What’s next? A quota for Race, Sexual Pref, etc., etc?”

Is there any doubt?


7 posted on 03/17/2014 12:53:52 PM PDT by aquila48 (tota)
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Welcome to socialism, where everything is rationed. Including public office.

Why even have elections? Let’s have the “quota board” select all the public officers. But what will be the makeup of the “quota board?”


8 posted on 03/17/2014 12:54:53 PM PDT by henkster (I don't like bossy women telling me what words I can't use.)
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So in District 5 a majority votes for Joe Shmo who gets 55% but Betty Hoe who got 43% wins because fewer women won in other districts.

That ought to do down well in Disrict 5.

9 posted on 03/17/2014 12:55:15 PM PDT by AU72
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Guess it’s been Californicated.


10 posted on 03/17/2014 12:55:19 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Well let’s hope an equal number of men and women vote this stupid thing down.


11 posted on 03/17/2014 12:56:11 PM PDT by Fish Speaker (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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What about Transgendereds? Aren’t they going to have to include slots for them as well?


12 posted on 03/17/2014 12:56:13 PM PDT by dfwgator
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A little history is in order here. Montana elected Jeanette Rankin to the U.S. Senate before the 18th amendment was even voted out of congress. Her main claim to fame is as the only person in congress who voted against our entry in to both World War I and World War II.

The western states were way ahead of the rest of the country in women's rights. Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Colorado and Montana were the first to give them the right to vote and hold office. Part of the motivation was because the men wanted to attract the more sturdy women from the east to come out and settle.

13 posted on 03/17/2014 12:57:01 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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This is way, WAY beyond stupid. The only way this can possibly work is if each seat is duplicated so that there can be a male and a female from each district.

Then what do you do when the remainder of the Facebook 56 clamor for ‘equal rights’.


14 posted on 03/17/2014 12:57:20 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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Thanks to Progressives, this is a meaningless effort in an era when a person can legally become a black just by claiming he/she is black, or can legally become a female just by claiming he/she/it is a female.


15 posted on 03/17/2014 12:57:31 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Albert Einstein: The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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This smells of discrimination, as there are more women than men.

So Women are still being discrimiated against (sic)

BTW, I want an equal number of postal workers, barmaids and janitors also represented in Montana statehouse


16 posted on 03/17/2014 12:57:43 PM PDT by bestintxas (Every time a RINO bites the dust a founding father gets his wings.)
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And those who choose each day which “gender” to be.

And Furries!!! Don’t forget Furries.


17 posted on 03/17/2014 12:59:46 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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Typical idiocy of the left. No points for merit, hard work, individual accomplishment. All about sex, race, “equality”. Unreal.


18 posted on 03/17/2014 1:00:13 PM PDT by albie
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So if a man is elected and there are only women slots available, is it OK if he just self identifies as a female like Brandly Mannning?


19 posted on 03/17/2014 1:01:03 PM PDT by GMMC0987
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I’ll take a Conservative female over a Liberal male any time.

Stupid rule nonetheless.


20 posted on 03/17/2014 1:01:48 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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