Women’s groups walk to urge voting
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Members of the League of Women Voters and American Association of University Women walk through Gilchrist Park to urge voters to participate in the Nov. 6 election in Punta Gorda Saturday.
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Cheryl Temple, president of the Punta Gorda-Port Charlotte chapter of the American Association of University Women speaks about gridlock in Washington at a voter education rally Saturday at the Woman's Club in Punta Gorda. Leaning against the podium is a poster on the history of the women's suffrage movement between 1848-1920.
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About 50 women participated in a walk to urge voting Saturday in Punta Gorda. The event was organized by the League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women.
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Long-time voter Helen Wrobbel, left, Mary Ellen Taylor, a member of the League of Women Voters, chat during a reception in the Woman's Club after a walk urging people to vote Saturday.
PUNTA GORDA — With women’s health and safety issues stalled by congressional gridlock, and measures to nullify Obamacare and ban public funds for abortions to be cast into the Florida constitution, there’s plenty of important issues to be decided on the Nov. 6 ballot.
That’s why it’s important to vote, according to leaders of the Punta Gorda-Port Charlotte chapter of the American Association of University Women and the League of Women Voters of Charlotte County.
