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Weekend open thread: Mother's Day edition

This thread is for anything on your mind this weekend.

I posted Mother’s Day links on this holiday in 2008 and 2009. For a change of pace this year, I decided to list the Democratic mothers who are currently running for office in Iowa. Please let me know if I’ve inadvertently left anyone out.

Lieutenant Governor Patty Judge

Susan Bangert (candidate in House district 8)

State Representative Sharon Steckman (House district 13)

State Representative Doris Kelley (House district 20)

State Representative Deborah Berry (House district 22)

Mary Wolfe (candidate in House district 26)

State Representative Kirsten Running-Marquardt (House district 33)

State Representative Geri Huser (House district 42)

State Representative Beth Wessel-Kroeschell (House district 45)

State Representative Lisa Heddens (House district 46)

State Representative Helen Miller (House district 49)

Danuta Hutchins (candidate in House district 52)

State Representative Janet Petersen (House district 64)

Ruth Ann Gaines (candidate in House district 65)

Deb Ballalatak (candidate in House district 72)

State Representative Mary Mascher (House district 77)

State Representative Vicki Lensing (House district 78)

State Representative Phyllis Thede (House district 81)

Sheri Carnahan (candidate in House district 84)

State Representative Cindy Winckler (House district 86)

State Representative Mary Gaskill (House district 93)

State Senator Amanda Ragan (Senate district 7)

State Senator Staci Appel (Senate district 37)

State Senator Becky Schmitz (Senate district 45)

Roxanne Conlin (candidate for U.S. Senate)

Tags: 2010 Elections, Iowa House, Iowa Senate, Mother's Day, Open Thread, State Legislature

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  • Lest we forget the origin of US Mother's Day


    Arise, then, women of this day!

    Arise all women who have hearts,

    Whether your baptism be that of water or of tears

    Say firmly:

    “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,

    Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage,

    For caresses and applause.

    Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn

    All that we have been able to teach them of

    charity, mercy and patience.

    “We women of one country

    Will be too tender of those of another country

    To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”

    From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with

    Our own. It says, “Disarm, Disarm!”

    The sword of murder is not the balance of justice!

    Blood does not wipe out dishonor

    Nor violence indicate possession.

    As men have of ten forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war.

    Let women now leave all that may be left of home

    For a great and earnest day of counsel.

    Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.

    Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means

    Whereby the great human family can live in peace,

    Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,

    But of God.

    In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask

    That a general congress of women without limit of nationality

    May be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient

    And at the earliest period consistent with its objects

    To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,

    The amicable settlement of international questions.

    The great and general interests of peace.

    -Julia Ward Howe, 1870 in response to the carnage of the Civil War

    For more history on Mom’s Day: http://www.mothersdaycentral.c…

    eltondavis  Sun 9 May 8:17 PM

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