Posted on 03/18/2021 9:44:47 PM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) touted on Thursday the need for Congress to pass voting rights legislation as a number of Republican-run states, including Georgia, eye restrictions to the ballot box.
“It is almost impossible to overstate how important this really is. We are at an inflection point. This is a moral moment in America, a defining moment in our history. Voting rights is not just one issue alongside other issues. It is about who we say we are, it is about our covenant with one another as an American people,” he said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“And so we’ve got to get on board. I know there’s a big debate about the filibuster, I’m sure we’re going to have to have that debate. But my argument is voting rights is bigger than the filibuster, and we must pass voting rights whether we get rid of the filibuster or not.”
Warnock, who was elected to the Senate in a January runoff, has become a vocal advocate for voting rights legislation during his short time in Congress.
The Georgia Democrat used his first floor speech in the Senate to underscore the importance of the For the People Act, a sweeping elections reform bill that passed the House earlier this month, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act that protects voting rights.
The For the People Act would require states to offer mail-in ballots, a minimum of 15 days of early voting and calls for online and same-day voter registration. The legislation also calls for the creation of independent commissions to draw congressional districts in an effort to put an end to partisan gerrymandering. The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act would prevent state legislatures from unilaterally making changes to voting procedures.
“We should have 100 votes in the Senate for voting rights. It used to be a bipartisan issue,” Warnock said Thursday. “What I hope to do is to appeal to the conscience of all of my colleagues, both Democrats and Republicans. I believe in democracy.”
Warnock’s remarks come as several states, including his own, mull voting restrictions that critics say are efforts to suppress the vote among people of color — voters who lean Democratic.
Georgia’s legislature is considering bills that would end no-excuse absentee voting and automatic voter registration, limit early voting on weekends and require more identification to vote absentee.
Those changes could impact Warnock’s 2022 Senate race, when he will run for a full six-year Senate stint after winning the special election in January to finish the remainder of former Sen. Johnny Isakson’s (R) term
Stolen elections have consequences.
What do Marxist Democrats care?
Ping. Please advise.
Election PROCEDURES and PROTOCOLS are the State’s responsibility. As for the actual election LAW, well someone far more intimate with the process than I will have to respond.
Hope Herschel Walker runs against this punk.
I will never vote again. What a joke . Do you really think the demonrats aren’t going to keep up the steal? They can (bad words) as far as I’m concerned.
Dennis Prager had a good answer to someone who said something similar, that it was over, done voting and done fighting. He disagreed vehemently and ask, well when do you fight? When times are good? Giving up when times are bad makes no sense to me. Keep fighting
Me too!
I will send Walker $34 dollars
It doesn’t really matter, if idiocrats are going to throw elections to Democrats and make excuses.
Bush was correct with his statement (below). Populists don’t know well enough to hold on to one house of Congress to save their freedoms or lives for future elections. They don’t know to keep every inch that they can hang on to. All that we needed was that Perdue victory. He’d already received more votes than Ossoff on November 3rd.
George W. Bush on Capitol insurrection: “I was sick to my stomach”
The Texas Tribune
BY ABBY LIVINGSTON
FEB. 24, 2021
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/24/texas-tribune-george-w-bush/
“Former President George W. Bush said in a new interview...’History and the United States has shown these populist movements begin to fritter over time,...’”
REVIEW THOSE GEORGIA SENATE ELECTION RESULTS
There were a series of fraudulent voting charges here. Were they enforced and corrected before this election took place ? If they weren’t is not a review called for ?
If the Georgia Secretary of State is in charge of voting he has the responsibility of enforcing the state’s regulations as to who votes. And eliminate those from voter lists who don’t qualify.
Assign prosecutors to personally canvass and investigate. Check if military actually voted by asking them. Identify all voters by checking on legal age their residency and citizenship. If found they do not qualify charge Illegals including state visitors known as snowbirds also include any technical computer fraudulent Italian programming testimony when presenting to the court and get these election results tossed.
LINKED HERE ARE REASONS WHY THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING 90% of the military votes went for Biden ?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3927647/posts#28
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3924076/posts#30
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3923435/posts#21
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3923157/posts#10
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3922715/posts#18
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923312/posts#11
STEALING AN ELECTION HAS A NEW NAME “VOTING RIGHTS”
In 2018, Paul Ryan and the GOPe did nothing when those 40-some members up and retired including meekly watching the RATS steal nine or ten additional seats after the election in a foreshadowing of 2020 while Mitch McConnell and the GOPe put out too many weak candidates and lost three or four winnable races. In 2020, it was Trump-fueled candidates not the GOPe who narrowed the gap in the House while McConnell finished what he started in 2018 and lost the Senate with more weak candidates like Kelly Loeffler and two-time loser Martha McSally.
Further, this disgrace I voted for twice, George W. Bush, is no one to be quoting or looking to for guidance and wisdom. In that same article you refer to comes his stunning assessment of Biden's first two months in office.
Bush said he has spoken with Biden and is so far pleased with his first two months in office.Off to a good start? A supposed Texas oilman thinks a good start is killing a vital pipeline and throwing away energy independence on day one? That alone disqualifies Bush from any credibility let alone the other things he approves of from Biden so far like going back to the Paris Agreement and, of course, the disaster at the southern border. I don't want to hear a thing from George W. Bush ever again."He's an experienced guy, and you know, I had a good conversation with him," Bush said. "I said, 'Anything I can do to help, if I feel comfortable with it, let me know.'"
"He's off to a good start it looks like," Bush added. "Hopefully, this anger will work its way out of the system."
Amen brother.
Yeah....because without the Cheat Forever act you don’t have a chance and you know it.
What Dubya hasn’t figured out is that this is a political realignment-not a temporary populist blip. Some of the other Establishment RINOs are just starting to realize it.
After he gets done criticizing Trump and sending campaign money to Murkoski, Mitch McConnell will work on this.
A political alignment against voting and against everyone supported by President Trump should work out really well.
[A little sour irony and sarcasm there.]
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