Hans von Spakovsky explores for National Review Online readers the frightening notions emanating from the Federal Election Commission.
Earlier this month, I predicted that a scheduled hearing at the Federal Election Commission was shaping up to be nothing more than a presentation of “the goofy gender ideology and politics of the progressive Left and academia.” And, oh, how right I was.
The May 12 forum on “Women in Politics” was organized by FEC chairwoman Ann Ravel without the approval of any of her colleagues and outside the legal authority of the FEC’s authorizing statute. Its avowed purpose: to “begin an open discussion” of why women are supposedly “significantly underrepresented in politics.” …
… [T]he academics and other campaign-finance amateurs on the panels proposed everything from imposing gender quotas on political offices to getting rid of American capitalism entirely. Really.
The executive director of the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, Adrienne Kimmell, for example, said the right way to get more women into political positions — if she were “really playing God” — would be to “completely dismantle our economic system” because it “doesn’t value women’s work in the same way it does men’s.” Unfortunately, God wasn’t allowed to play a role in the major alternative to our economic system, the Soviet Union, before it fell apart.
