LWV Refuses Pledge at IL8 Forum, Crowd Spontaneous Recitation

Video via the Barrington, Illinois TEA Party, which notes this was held at Grayslake school with questions screened by teachers--(Melissa emerges from the bunker) not an explicitly Joe Walsh crowd. It was quite a civics lesson: I've been to a lot of LWV forums. At least in these parts they are on the left. As you see.

More. Daily Herald:

Illinois' top League of Women Voters official said “phony patriotism” is driving criticism over a moderator's reaction when she was asked if the Pledge of Allegiance would be recited before an 8th Congressional District debate this week.