{"id":888,"date":"2008-06-05T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=888"},"modified":"2008-06-05T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T22:00:00","slug":"kathy-bonk-im-a-values-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/06\/05\/kathy-bonk-im-a-values-voter\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Bonk: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a Values Voter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SEide1-7PAI\/AAAAAAAABhQ\/8o4JwHGozTo\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SEide1-7PAI\/AAAAAAAABhQ\/8o4JwHGozTo\/s200\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>NCRW Plenary &#8211; Post #3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccmc.org\/bios.htm\">Kathy Bonk<\/a>, Communications Consortium Media Center, offered as a sidenote that she hitch-hiked in college and got involved in the Shirley Chisholm campaign!  But that&#8217;s not what she&#8217;s talking about here.  Snippets from her comments:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been very painful for me is that in the past 2 election cycles, the only \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwomen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s issue&#8217; that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up for debate seems to be abortion.  It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always that way.  If we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to do anything for women, we need to move away from personality and back to issues.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Values voters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is a code word for evangelicals.  But I too am a values voter.  We should shift the debate so that we look at feminists\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand not just evangelicals\u00e2\u20ac\u201das values voters.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t loose ground on abortion.  In Colorado, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a &#8216;personhood&#8217; referendum on the ballot\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmeaning the antis are advocating that personhood starts with conception.  But abortion issues can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be all.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Note: Bonk was involved in spearheading a public opinion poll called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Moving Forward\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, which polled voters on their ideas for an agenda that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just about abortion but a broader range of issues.  She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got data, if anyone is interested in following up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRW Plenary &#8211; Post #3 Kathy Bonk, Communications Consortium Media Center, offered as a sidenote that she hitch-hiked in college and got involved in the Shirley Chisholm campaign! But that&#8217;s not what she&#8217;s talking about here. Snippets from her comments: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been very painful for me is that in the past 2 election cycles, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21328,10745,431],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-events","tag-political-campaigns","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}