{"id":293,"date":"2022-03-16T12:48:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T12:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/remembering-democracy-warrior-peg-rosenfield\/"},"modified":"2022-03-16T12:48:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T12:48:29","slug":"remembering-democracy-warrior-peg-rosenfield","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/ro\/articles\/amintindu-si-democratia-razboinicul-peg-rosenfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Amintindu-l pe R\u0103zboinicul Democra\u021biei Peg Rosenfield"},"template":"","class_list":["post-293","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":null,"article_type":153,"authors":null,"related_issues":false,"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Last week, Ohio lost one of its most formidable advocates for voting rights and democracy. Margaret (Peg) Rosenfield. She died, according to <\/span>her obituary<\/span><\/a>, \u201cafter a long battle with the Ohio legislature.\u201d Her final <\/span>letter to the editor<\/span><\/a> was published on the day she died. It reads, in its entirety, \u201cIn regard to the primary date, Secretary of State Frank LaRose is right. Move the entire primary to June. Ohio primaries used to be in June.\u201d Powerful, to the point, and urgently necessary.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nPeg\u2019s work had an enormous positive impact for voters in Ohio. We share with you below memories of Peg from three who worked with her closely over the years, beginning with Common Cause Ohio\u2019s own Executive Director, Catherine Turcer.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nFrom Catherine Turcer, Executive Director of Common Cause Ohio and former director of Ohio Citizen Action's Money in Politics Project:<\/span>\r\n\r\nWhen I was hired to lobby in the late 1990s, I didn\u2019t know anything about lobbying. I cared deeply about money in politics, but I\u2019d never been to the Ohio Statehouse. Peg essentially adopted me and guided me around the Statehouse. She showed me every nook and cranny and the multiple ways around the crypt.\u00a0 While she introduced me to the Ohio Senate Building, she showed me how to deconstruct a bill and examine every comma. Peg loved language almost as much as she loved voting and democracy and knew \u201cwhere the bodies were buried\u201d (<\/span><\/i>partial list<\/span><\/i><\/a>). Peg was instrumental in passing reforms that we now take for granted. Our first joint lobbying effort was successful and on Dec. 22, 1999, Governor Bob Taft signed the Voter Right to Know Bill into law requiring statewide and legislative candidates, PACs, and political party committees to <\/span><\/i>file their campaign finance reports online<\/span><\/i><\/a>.\u00a0 Peg encouraged me to work on redistricting reform and to that democracy advocates had to be joyfully persistent.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nPeg Rosenfield at Fair Districts\/Fair Elections Petition Central<\/span>\r\n\r\nFrom <\/span>Scott Britton<\/span><\/a>, former executive director of the League of Women Voters of Ohio, and assistant director of Public Children Services Association of Ohio.<\/span>\r\n\r\nWhen it came to redistricting, Peg understood that ordinary voters did not appreciate how central the concept is to representative democracy and fairness. She understood why it might be overlooked. After all, redistricting only happens once a decade; it can seem complex and confusing; it doesn\u2019t resonate in the same way that voting rights and campaign finance do. Particularly when it came to ballot initiatives, Peg reviewed them carefully to make sure they were simple, clear, nonpartisan \u2013 and avoided unintended consequences. She knew that voters tend to oppose language that is complex or confusing. When a group of democracy-related ballot initiatives was proposed in 2005, it was thanks to Peg\u2019s eagle eye that the League ended up supporting most \u2013 but not all \u2013 of the measures. Our position was practical, well-reasoned and respected. It was this approach, based on Peg\u2019s eagle eye and iron-clad memory, that helped make the League of Women Voters of Ohio a force to be reckoned with on democracy issues for the last 30+ years.<\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\nFrom <\/span>Carrie Davis,<\/span><\/a> former executive director of the League of Women Voters of Ohio, and program officer at the Joyce Foundation:\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nTwo of my fondest Peg memories illustrate her uncanny ability to infuse humor with fierce determination, which is a real gift when working on long-term reform.<\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\nAnytime we were working on a voter registration issue, be it a bill in the legislature or an SOS or BOE policy, guaranteed that at some point Peg would say, \u201cGuys, it\u2019s not hard. When Sherrod was Secretary, we printed voter registration forms on McDonald\u2019s placemats. They came in covered in ketchup, and we still processed them and got people registered.\u201d It\u2019s one of my all-time favorite examples of making voter registration more accessible.<\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\nThe other Peg saying that stuck with me was one she busted out anytime we were dealt a setback - \u201cIt took us [women] 72 years to get the right to vote. We\u2019re determined, and we keep at it until we win.\u201d That became a kind of mantra for our Fair Districts work - keep at it until we win. Which we did, and still do.<\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\nYou can read more about Peg\u2019s life and contributions in this article from the Columbus <\/span>Dispatch<\/span><\/a>. We hope, in this long slog towards fairness and accountability, you are inspired by Peg to continue your own efforts towards building a fairer, more resilient and reflective democracy.\u00a0<\/span>"}}]},"yoast_head":"\nRemembering Democracy Warrior Peg Rosenfield - Common Cause Ohio<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/ro\/articles\/amintindu-si-democratia-razboinicul-peg-rosenfield\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ro_RO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Remembering Democracy Warrior Peg Rosenfield\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/ro\/articles\/amintindu-si-democratia-razboinicul-peg-rosenfield\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause Ohio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/OH.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/remembering-democracy-warrior-peg-rosenfield\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/remembering-democracy-warrior-peg-rosenfield\/\",\"name\":\"Remembering Democracy Warrior Peg Rosenfield - 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