A Response to the Insurrection at the Capitol
AAUW Morgan Hill members will be presenting the following letter at the next City Council meeting, this coming Wednesday. Note that AAUW nationally has joined with other national women’s organizations demanding President Trump’s removal. READ STATEMENT.
To join in with the signatories on our letter, please email lettertocouncil@aauwmh.org no later than Monday, January 18. Indicate any (non-partisan) organization affiliation or other credentials you would like included with your signature. The following initial list of signatures will be updated with a final list by Tuesday morning. It will be emailed to all City Council members Tuesday evening, in advance of the City Council meeting.
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Dear Mayor Constantine, Mayor Pro-tem McKay, Council Members Spring, Beltran, and Borgioli,
As members of a non-partisan organization devoted to advocacy and equity for all, we unequivocally repudiate the seditious incitement of violence by the President and the elected leaders who supported and encouraged him, responsible for the vicious and bloody assault on our Capitol Building in Washington DC on January 6, 2021.
The violent mob, with a proliferation of white supremacist, Nazi, and anti-Semitic symbols did this in the President’s name. Lives were lost, the Capitol building desecrated, ransacked, and pillaged, and the Confederate flag representing racism, human-trafficking, and slavery, placed in our sacred Capitol building for the first time in history.
Our highest elected leader, our President, flouted federal law, his oath, principles of democracy, decency, and truth, and incited a treasonous insurrection, witnessed in real time on TV by us, and by people all over the globe. This attempt to subvert the results of a fair election, undo the will of the people, and accept the “most secure election ever” as concluded by legal experts and the Supreme Court, after a multitude of attempts to sue without evidence, is a perilous threat to our democracy. The organized armed insurgency still planned across all 50 states and Washington DC for the 20th show no sign of abatement or evidence of lessons learned.
We are encouraged that our leaders in Congress have initiated legal action, and we exhort them to ensure that the President and his encouragers face consequences so that this never happens again. We ask our local officials to make a statement, in solidarity, regarding this grave attack on our democracy. These steps will help us move forward with the new president and legislature, on a path toward healing our country to which we are all committed.
We make this statement in the name of democracy, decency, federal law, and the Constitution of the United States.
Respectfully,
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Kay Arora, AAUW Morgan Hill Member; SURJ South County Member
Mary Cox, AAUW Morgan Hill Member/Past President
Kathy Devine, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Donna Dicker, AAUW Morgan Hill Board Member/Past President
Betsy Ding, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Marcia Fishman, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Gautam Ganapathy, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Suman Ganapathy, AAUW Morgan Hill Board; Morgan Hill Library, Culture & Arts Commissioner; LMH Class of 2018; SURJ South County Member
Carol Holzgrafe, AAUW Morgan Hill Member/Past President; LMH Class of 1999
Amina Khemici, AAUW Morgan Hill Member; SURJ South County Member; SVIC Member
Katie Khera, AAUW Morgan Hill Member; Morgan Hill Library, Culture & Arts Commissioner; SURJ South County Member
Margaret MacNaughton, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Elizabeth Mandel, AAUW Morgan Hill Board/Past President; LMH Class of 2019
Sousan Manteghi-Safakish, AAUW Morgan Hill Member; SURJ South County Member
Yvonne Martinez-Beltran, AAUW Morgan Hill Member; Morgan Hill Councilwoman
Margaret McCann, AAUW Morgan Hill Member/Past President; LMH Class of 2016
Monica McClintock, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Janet McElroy, AAUW Morgan Hill Board/Past President
Marji McMillan, AAUW Morgan Hill, Member; SURJ South County Member
Cinda Meister, AAUW Morgan Hill Member; LMH Class of 2016
Gretchen Merrick, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Kathy Napoli, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Jill Paveza, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Marilyn Pifer, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Jean Pinard, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Yvonne Randolph, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Jenny Redfern, AAUW Morgan Hill Member/Past President
Elaine Reimer, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Susan Rife, AAUW Morgan Hill Member; LMH Class of 2017
Donna Ruebusch, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Marian Sacco, AAUW Morgan Hill President; LMH Class of 2005
Kathy Sullivan, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Joan Stempel, AAUW Morgan Hill Member
Sherrie Wren, AAUW Morgan Hill Board
Janet Wright, AAUW Morgan Hill Board
Beth Wyman, AAUW Morgan Hill Member; Past Morgan Hill Mayor