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The Voting Rights Act what happened to the repubs ? - 8/17/2015 10:00:09 PM

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“Despite the progress made by minorities under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the evidence before Congress reveals that 40 years has not been a sufficient amount of time to eliminate the vestiges of discrimination following nearly 100 years of disregard for the dictates of the 15th Amendment and to ensure that the right of all citizens to vote is protected as guaranteed by the Constitution.”

“I’m hopeful Congress will put politics aside.....“and find a responsible path forward that ensures the sacred obligation of voting in this country remains protected.”

I wonder who made those statements ? Anybody got a clue ?

I will follow up.

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RE: The Voting Rights Act what happened to the repubs ? - 8/18/2015 5:01:52 AM

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The first statement was from the congressional record sect. 2 para. 7 inclusion within the overall act :

On July 20, 2006, the United States Senate voted to renew the Voting Rights Act for 25 more years. The vote was unanimous, 98 to 0. That followed an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote in the House of Representatives, which passed it by a vote of 390 to 33. President George Bush signed the renewal with apparent enthusiasm a few days later.

The second statement was Rand Paul after the 2013 SCOTUS ruling in Shelby v Holder, striking sect 5 of the act down.

Now even after a few other repubs have said that congress should readdress the issue, the power of the repub leadership...says no.

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RE: The Voting Rights Act what happened to the repubs ? - 8/18/2015 7:49:22 PM

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What no comments ? No answers ?

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RE: The Voting Rights Act what happened to the repubs ? - 8/18/2015 9:21:24 PM

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The NYT wrote about this. With a shrinking base and no appeal to minorities and little appeal for women --- the Karl Chicanery Rove element of the Republican party is calling the shots.

Gerrymandering, voter suppression, Benghazism, and Obama Derangement Syndrome are more important than any high roads.

Republicans have also been for Tort Reform b/c there is "too much litigation" driving up the costs of doing business. This has not stopped them from filing multiple lawsuits v. the ACA and executive actions on immigration.

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RE: The Voting Rights Act what happened to the repubs ? - 8/18/2015 11:01:49 PM

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YES

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

The NYT wrote about this. With a shrinking base and no appeal to minorities and little appeal for women --- the Karl Chicanery Rove element of the Republican party is calling the shots.

Gerrymandering, voter suppression, Benghazism, and Obama Derangement Syndrome are more important than any high roads.

Republicans have also been for Tort Reform b/c there is "too much litigation" driving up the costs of doing business. This has not stopped them from filing multiple lawsuits v. the ACA and executive actions on immigration.

Well plus, for a party to claim they are champions of small business, you'd never know it with 90% of tort law being...small businesses suing small businesses.

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RE: The Voting Rights Act what happened to the repubs ? - 8/19/2015 11:36:27 PM

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• I was surprised by the relentlessness of the five-decade campaign to try to roll back the V.R.A., which you documented in your piece and I documented in my book. They’ve been chipping away at this thing relentlessly for 50 years. The other thing that surprised me was just how long it took for progress to be made under the V.R.A. You had this massive increase in voter registration after the law was passed. Then you had this few-decade period when African-Americans and other minorities started to get elected, but it just took a long time for those groups to be elected in large numbers.

• It seems unlikely that anything is going to happen soon. My sense now is that Democrats and the small minority of Republicans that still want to restore the Voting Rights Act are just kind of biding their time, trying to get some more popular support for doing this, and then waiting until either the politics of Congress change dramatically or — I think more likely — the makeup of Congress changes dramatically. Because I think that if you had a Democratic Congress again, restoring the Voting Rights Act would be a high priority.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/17/magazine/this-looks-like-a-national-strategy.html?mabReward=CTM&moduleDetail=recommendations-0&action=click&contentCollection=Middle%20East®ion=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article

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