Hoo's on first?
As of July 15, 2025, the new President of the League of Women Voters is Gloria Chun Hoo.
"The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonpartisan American nonprofit political organization." (Wikipedia)
(From Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
"The meaning of NONPARTISAN is not partisan; especially: free from party affiliation, bias, or designation."
Synonyms for nonpartisan include: independent, neutral, nonaligned, unbiased, and uninvolved.
So, if the League of Women Voters is truly a "nonpartisan" organization, why did LWV President Gloria Chun Hoo's viewpoint:
"Don't upend fairness: Say no to mid-cycle redistricting in California/Opinion" appear in the July 30, 2025 issue of The Sacramento Bee?
She, of course, was referring to Governor Gavin Newsom's "Election Rigging Response Act" which will appear on the November ballot.
"Don't upend fairness"?
"Say no to mid-cycle redistricting in California"?
That doesn't sound "nonpartisan" to me.
In fact, it sounds very partisan. "Say no to redistricting in California" isn't "independent," or "neutral", or "nonaligned", or "unbiased or "uninvolved."
In fact, it isn't any of those things.
Gloria Chun Hoo's Sacramento Bee's "viewpoint" was as far from "nonpartisan" as one could get!
It certainly was not a "neutral" position to take, nor was it "unbiased."
And Ms. Hoo DID get "involved" by having her political viewpoint "Say No to redistricting in California" published in the Sacramento Bee.
I agree with what lostincalifornia posted last Thursday regarding this so-called "nonpartisan" opinion by LWV President Gloria Chun Hoo:
"The League of Women Voters say they are 'nonpartisan', and pride themselves on that.
Well, they can take that nonpartisan bullshit, and put it where the sun don't shine."
https://democraticunderground.com/100220577051
(Ignore 2nd sentence: "and they are sending mailers out & advertisements throughout the state pushing that"]
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