Pelosi Haunted by Women Her Party Suppressed

The Democrats delayed women’s suffrage for half a century.

David Catron September 4, 2018

Nancy Pelosi recently spoke at the Public Policy Institute of California, where she repeated a story about a supernatural visitation she claims to have received in the Oval Office. Yes, you read that correctly. She says she was meeting with President Bush shortly after being elected House Minority Leader where she was joined by the spirits of Susan B. Anthony and other legendary feminists who exultantly told her, “At last, we have a seat at the table.”

In reality, if Anthony could actually speak to Pelosi it would be to rebuke her for betraying the cause by becoming a Democrat. The Democratic Party was the primary obstacle in the way of women’s suffrage for half a century until the Republicans finally passed the Nineteenth Amendment — codifying the right of women to vote. Democrat obstruction of suffrage led Anthony’s National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) to support Republican President Grant’s 1872 reelection campaign. Moreover, she shamed the election board of Rochester, NY into registering her to vote (over the protests of the 3-man board’s only Democrat). She cast her ballot on November 5, 1872, for which she was arrested and put on trial.........To Read More....