Donations   Donate here by PayPal or your credit card. Want to write a check? 

Send it to LWV BHB Treasurer Marcia Buttgen, 

1510 Lyon Ave,

Waterloo, IA 50702

(319) 230-4541     buttgenm@gmail.com 

Want to join the League? 

Membership is now done by National through this portal:

https://portal.lwv.org/membership  

Welcome to the website of  The League of Women Voters of Black Hawk-Bremer Counties  (LWV BHB)

Our League

• promotes active and informed participation through voter registration and voter education

• provides leadership for legislative public forums when the state legislature is in session

• provides leadership for non-partisan public forums for candidates for local and state office

• researches and studies issues

• discusses findings to reach consensus in open, constructive and stimulating settings 

• observes and monitors public meetings

• takes action -- for or against issues which the membership has studied and reached consensus 

LOOKING FOR THE BLACK HAWK OR BREMER COUNTY DIRECTORY OF ELECTED OFFICIALS? THE FILES ARE LINKED ON THIS PAGE. YOU'RE WELCOME TO DOWNLOAD AND PRINT. We've already distributed hundreds of copies throughout our two counties at courthouses, libraries, and other public spaces.

All League events are listed on our Google Calendar. We also create events on our Facebook page.  https://www.facebook.com/BlackHawkBremerLeague/

Hands Off! The Cedar Valley Fights Back!

SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1:30-3 PM

DOWNTOWN WATERLOO, LINCOLN  PARK

We will be staffing a voter registration table at the event. 

Join us! People's Clinic, The Northeast Iowa Food Bank,  ACLU, NAACP, and other organizations are mobilizing nationwide. 

As part of this effort, we are making this a triple-action movement by including:

1. Hands Off Protest – Standing in solidarity with communities nationwide.

2. Food Drive for the Northeast Iowa Food Bank – Fighting food insecurity.

3. Voter Registration Drive – Ensuring that every voice counts in upcoming elections.

Here are the League's Public Policy Priorities, 2025

Annual Meeting, Tuesday, April 8 at the Diamond Event Center in Cedar Falls. We'll start at 6: feel free to grab a drink at Gilmore's Pub and gather at 5:30 to socialize.

Dinner will be served by 6:30 and program begins at 7. We look forward to seeing you there!

Cedar Valley Public Legislative Forums

Thank you to Jean Seeland for all of her hard work making these arrangements. Remember that League is ONLY one of several dozen organizations sponsoring the Forum.

Thanks to our Legislators, our Moderators, and Jerry Hageman for serving as Timekeeper--and to those who attended the forums and asked questions.

Follow the Cedar Valley Legislative Forums on Facebook; we post Facebook Live sessions there.

https://www.facebook.com/cvlforum/

Did you miss the Forum? You can watch it on Facebook Live, posted at this special Facebook page for the Forums. 

Thanks go to Mike Dargan for doing this! He records all of our sessions.

The next one is Friday, Feb. 21, 4:30-6:30 at the downtown HCC Adult Ed Center.

The topic is Hunger

Then Friday, March 7 at 4:30-6:30

The topic is Education

Finally, Friday, April 4

The topic is Health Care

Sometimes we have a wrap up forum.

Directories of Elected Officials for Black Hawk and Bremer County.

Feel free to download and print for yourself. Otherwise, copies have been distributed throughout the two Counties.

Click on the document and you will see a little box pop up. If you click on the box, it opens the  document up in a new tab, allowing you to print or download the document. 

Who is invited to the Forums?  Updated, Feb. 2025

ALL Area Legislators are welcome--letters are sent to them, inviting them to participate.   

Representatives                                                   Joshua Meggers 

Pat Grassley

Timi Brown Powers                   

Jerome Amos, Jr.

Chad Ingels

Bob Kressig                                                               

Derek Wulf        

Senators

Annette Sweeney

Sandy Salmon

Bill Dotzler

Dan Zumbach

Dave Sires 

Email messages may be sent using this form: firstname.lastname@legis.iowa.gov

for example:   bob.kressig@legis.iowa.gov

Who Sponsors the Cedar Valley Legislative Forums? 

American Democracy Project

Black Hawk County Democrats

AAUW Cedar Falls-Waterloo

Black Hawk Labor Chapter

Black Hawk County NAACP

Cedar Falls Education Assoc.

Retired School Personnel

Cedar Falls Education Support

Cedar Valley Bicycle Collective

CWA Local 7108

Cedar Prairie Sierra Club

Hawkeye Community College

IBEW Local 288

Northern Iowa Student Government

LWV Black Hawk-Bremer

Peoples Community Health Clinic

UAW 838

Waterloo Education Association

Cedar Valley UNA

Waterloo Education Support

Exchange Club of Waterloo

Cedar Valley Unitarian Universalists

Cedar Valley Jaycees