The League of Women Voters of Wayland has created a Voters’ Guide of the 2025 candidates for Town office to help inform voters. See the whole guide below (updated on March 15, 2025)!
Author: League of Women Voters of Wayland
The League of Women Voters is a political grassroots network and membership organization that believes the freedom to vote is a nonpartisan issue. For more than a century, we’ve worked to empower voters and defend democracy. As a women-led organization, we encourage everyone to take part in our democracy.
LWV Acts on Challenges to Democracy
LWV Calls on Congress to Act
“The League of Women Voters of the United States along with our state affiliates in 50 states and the District of Columbia, write to express our strong concern about Congress’s abdication of its duty and authority under Article I of the US Constitution. We urge you to exercise your authority to protect the rule of law, defend the Constitution, and end the overreach by the executive branch of government, which is surely leading to harm for millions of Americans. We demand that you honor your oaths and protect your constituents.”
The League of Women Voters of the United States, along with all 51 state Leagues, issued a letter to Congress today urging them to exercise their authority. Read the complete letter here and the press release here.
SAVE Act Action Alert
If you haven’t done so already, please urge your member of Congress to oppose the SAVE Act using this Action Alert. LWVMA, as part of the Election Modernization Coalition, will be meeting with House Minority Whip Katherine Clark next week to discuss the SAVE Act.
LWVUS National Strategy
Please take a few minutes to watch the program recording and review the slides from Defending Democracy 2025. LWVUS CEO Celina Stewart briefed LWVMA membership on the national strategy for the first 100 days of the new administration: focus, discipline, and when the League acts, it will act with speed. LWVMA will take action at the state level to defend against threats from the Trump Administration. Be sure to review the Gold/Silver/Bronze framework on slide 6.
Reminders:
Level of League follows level of government so state and local Leagues will follow LWVUS lead.
We must not waver on our commitment to nonpartisanship: The League does not endorse political candidates or parties. But once a candidate becomes an elected official, they are accountable when they act in opposition to our positions or threaten the US Constitution. The national team is meeting with members of Congress from both parties, and we cannot jeopardize those talks by partnering with partisan organizations for local or state events.
Protest Opportunity: Economic Blackout Feb. 28
LWVUS offers a protest opportunity to join the national economic blackout on Friday, February 28. View this article to learn more. Don’t buy anything that day unless it is from a small business. Spread the word!
Happy 105th Birthday to the League
Watch LWVUS Board President Dianna Wynn’s message here. View the birthday rally here.
Stay Informed
Sign up for email alerts from the national office here. Review all LWVUS statements on the new administration here. Sign up to receive alerts from the Women Defend Democracy campaign here.
Questions? Contact specialists@lwvma.org.
Democracy – What Does It Mean in People’s Everyday Lives?
The League of Women Voters of Wayland co-sponsored a panel discussion by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts called Democracy – What Does It Mean in People’s Everyday Lives?
The 60-minute program is moderated by Heather Hamilton, and features panelists Dr. Rachael Cobb, Cheryl Clyburn Crawford, and Tim Matthews. For more information and a link to the recoding, click here: Democracy – What Does It Mean in People’s Everyday Lives?
More info on the 2024 Massachusetts Ballot Questions
- Ballot Question 1 Forum (hosted by LWVMA on October 8, 2024 at 7PM, recording HERE)
- Ballot Questions 1-5 Informational Session (hosted by LWV Concord-Carlisle on October 4, 2024, recording HERE)
- Ballot Question 2 Forum (hosted by LWV Newton and co-sponsors LWV Boston, LWV Brookline, LWV Harvard, LWV Needham, LWV Waltham, LWV Wellesley, LWV Weston, and LWVMA on October 7, 2024, recording HERE)
- Ballot Question 5 Informational Forum (hosted by LWV Needham on October 9, 2024, recording HERE)
- Ballot Questions 1-6 Forum (hosted by LWV Williamstown on October 16, 2024, recording HERE)
Upcoming 2024 Informational Ballot Question Forums
- Ballot Questions 1-5 Informational Forum (to be hosted by LWV Norwood on October 23, 2024 at 7 PM at the Morrill Memorial Library, details HERE)
Learn more about Question 2 on the November ballot
Thanks to the League of Women Voters and Brookline Interactive Group for the topic meeting about Question 2 on the November ballot in Massachusetts. You can watch it here to learn more: Question 2 (MCAS Requirement) Topic Meeting
Community, Culture, and Belonging Survey and Listening Sessions for the Town of Wayland
Wayland has hired a consultant to conduct an equity assessment to learn how we are doing as a community in making people who live and work here feel welcome. To better understand how people feel, the consultants are asking residents to participate in a survey. The hope to get as many as 2,000 responses—an ambitious goal! The survey link is below. Please take a few minutes to answer the survey questions and forward the link to your Wayland neighbors and friends and ask them to respond as well.
COMMUNITY SURVEY
The Town of Wayland has launched a Community, Culture, and Belonging Survey. The goal is to understand the experiences of community members including those who live, work, worship and/or have children who learn within the Wayland Community.
The Center for Strategic Diversity Leadership and Social Innovation is the external research team leading this project. Everything gathered in this survey is anonymous.
• Anyone 18 or older who lives, works, learns and worships, and/or has children who learn in Wayland is encouraged to take the survey.
• The survey takes 5 to 10 minutes and will remain available until October 31, 2024.
• You only need to complete this survey once.
To participate in the survey, please click this link: https://daw.checkboxonline.com/wayland
If you have any questions, would like assistance or need an accommodation to complete the survey, please contact execasst@wayland.ma.us or call 508-358-3621. https://www.wayland.ma.us/sites/g/files/vyhlif9231/f/news/tow_community_culture_and_belonging_survey.pdf
Community, Culture, and Belonging Survey Upcoming Listening Sessions
In addition to the survey, The Center for Strategic Diversity Leadership and Social Innovation team will be leading listening sessions for community members to share your experiences in the Town of Wayland.
- Who: Anyone 18 or older who lives, works, learns or worships in Wayland, or has children in Wayland schools is encouraged to participate in one of these upcoming listening sessions. You only need to participate in one session.
- Time: Each session is 60 minutes.
You can register for one of the listening sessions by clicking here or by using the QR Code on the flyer below.
To participate in the survey, please click this link: https://daw.checkboxonline.com/wayland
Learn about Ballot Question 1 on Tuesday, October 8th at 7 pm on Zoom
Join the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts on Tuesday, October 8 at 7:00 PM via Zoom for an educational forum on Ballot Question 1: State Auditor’s Authority to Audit the Legislature.
We will explore the constitutionality of the proposed audit. The focus of our discussion will be: Is the proposed audit constitutional? Why or why not?
Our featured speakers will be General Counsel and Deputy Auditor for the Commonwealth, Michael Leung-Tat, and Central Connecticut State University Political Science Professor Jerold Duquette.
Register HERE.
Review the LWVMA statement on the November 2024 ballot questions HERE. View more voter education forums via the LWVMA calendar.
Watch Governor’s Council (District 3) Forum Online!
NewTV (Newton TV) and the League of Women Voters of the Acton area, Arlington, Bedford, Belmont, Boston-Cambridge, Brookline, Concord-Carlisle, Harvard, Lexington, Newton, Sudbury, Waltham, Wayland, Wellesley, and Weston co-sponsored a forum with the candidates for the Governor’s Council 3rd District. This candidates forum was recorded by NewTV and is available here: Ward 3 Governor’s Council Forum.
The LWV solicited questions from residents about the issues and questions they believed were important to ask the candidates. Questions were appropriate for all candidates for the specific office and were concise in their one to two sentence length. While the moderator was not able to ask every question as written, she did try to cover all the topics recommended by the public in the time allocated for the forum.
This forum was a collaboration between NewTV and all the local Leagues of Women Voters of the Governor’s Council 3rd District . For more information, please email GCd3questions@gmail.com
Use VOTE411 to find out about your ballot!
Go to VOTE411.org and fill in your address to see who will be on your ballot in the upcoming primary election on September 3rd!
Thanks to the candidates at LWVW’s Meet the Candidates event!
Many thanks to the candidates for Wayland Town office who joined League members and other Wayland residents for refreshments at the Wayland Public Library on Sunday! The candidates who came were Doug Levine (Select Board), Carol Martin (Select Board), Emily Weintraub (Board of Library Trustees), Robin Borgestedt (Planning Board), Kate Sambuco (School Committee), Elizabeth Cullen (School Committee), and Robert Fox (Trust Fund Commission).
Our heartfelt appreciation to the Wayland Public Library for their hospitality and the use of their space. Many thanks as well to League volunteer Karen Kavet for organizing this new event!
League of Women Voters of Wayland 