Article: LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OUR ``MANIFESTO'' IS STRICTLY NONPARTISAN AND DEMOCRATIC.(LOCAL)(Letter to the Editor)

In the League of Women Voters . . . we have got to be non-partisan and all-partisan. Democrats from Alabama and Republicans from New Hampshire must work for the same things.

- Carrie Chapman Catt at the League's founding, 1920

Recently, Ed Shrock's campaign turned down the local League ofWomen Voters' invitation to a debate against his opponent for the 2nd Congressional District, Jody Wagner.

``They'll tell you they're nonpartisan,'' his campaign manager said (news, Sept. 8). ``But if you look at what they stand for, it looks sort of like the communist manifesto.''

In the heat of a political campaign, operatives sometimes say ...

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