Rep. Ako Abdul Samad, a Black lawmaker who worked for two years with Reynolds on the issue, said it’s just one step in the broader fight against racial injustice.
“You need to help us show that black lives matter and if black lives did matter this wouldn’t have been such a hoorah today. This would have been something that was already automatic,” he said.
I’m fine with this. And people need to stop assuming all former felons (whatever race or combination thereof they are) vote Democrat. Some do end up conservative.
Granting voting rights won’t change the culture that enabled their incarceration in the first place.
She isn’t a Republican !