Laguna Hills : Coalition to Fight Bork Nomination

A coalition of 38 county groups has come out in opposition to the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to Wendy Lozano, legislative chairman for the South Coast chapter of National Organization for Women.

Lozano said the coalition plans to launch a letter-writing campaign, staff phone banks, picket and carry out other forms of protest to Bork’s nomination. Hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee begin Sept. 15.

Lozano said that at a meeting Thursday night in Laguna Hills organized by NOW, about 60 representatives of the 38 groups held an “emergency grass-roots meeting” on the Bork nomination. She said the coalition is opposed to Bork because his views on, among other things, school prayer, big business, abortion and privacy “make him totally unacceptable to the majority of Americans.”

Among the groups represented Thursday night were the American Assn. of University Women, Concerned Citizens for Peace, Gray Panthers, three NOW chapters, Elections Committee for the County of Orange, Orange County Women Lawyers, Women For:, Women’s Network Alert, Laguna Hills chapter of B’nai B’rith, Planned Parenthood, Coalition Concerned with Adolescent Pregnancy, Laguna Outreach, the Federation (a coalition of gay and lesbian organizations in county), the county chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Log Cabin Club, Democratic Associates, the Democratic Club of West Orange County and the National Assn. of Social Workers.