To know more about how the Roberts Court has eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as amended here is a teach in on voting rights . Join the fight to overcome the attack by our current Supreme Court on voting rights. We need to convince every US Senator that the Senate must exercise its powers under Article 1.4 and the 14th and 15…
To know more about how the Roberts Court has eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as amended here is a teach in on voting rights . Join the fight to overcome the attack by our current Supreme Court on voting rights. We need to convince every US Senator that the Senate must exercise its powers under Article 1.4 and the 14th and 15th Amendments to protect the right to vote. Thus the Senate must end the filibuster.
I don't believe that most Americans understand the real impact of individual States controlling the rules for voting OR that their zip code directly controls whether they can cast their ballots and what barriers they may have to overcome in order to vote.
Below are links to the script and a brief powerpoint presentation I gave Thursday to the Mid-peninsula Chapter of the ACLU of Northern CA.
These slides explain VERY SIMPLY election law from the original text in the Constitution, and how voting rights improved after the passage of the Voting Rights Act 1965 and its amendments. Protecting voting rights led to the election of our first black president in 2008. Thereafter, Chief Justice Roberts has led the Supreme Court's evisceration of the protections of our Voting Rights, step by step. This is explained visually.
My goal is to explain what has happened so that people will get angry and they themselves will advocate the President and their Senators and their Congressional representatives for the passage of the Freedom to Vote John R Lewis Act (HR5746). The powerpoint shows visually what passage of HR5746 would mean to all Americans and includes tools in the slides for taking action.
I AM ASKING YOU TO review THE SLIDES. READ THE SCRIPT. THEN, tell me if you have SHARED THIS email WITH => 20 contacts with family/friends who LIVE IN : NH, ID, PA, IA, MT, WI, MI, IN, FL, GA, WV, TX, NC, SC, OK, OH, LA, AK, AL, ND, or SD. as these states are the most repressive. The slides visually detail the states' actions to repress the vote. We need to get Senators in these states to support the Right to Vote. Contact US Senators in ME, AK, ID, WV, AZ, VT, NH, OH, PA because their states supported the Voting Right Act in 1965 and ask them to stand up for voting rights now.
Frankly, when I watch the Ukrainians fighting for their democracy, I am very angry that Americans aren't fighting at home to stop the march backwards away from Civil Rights in America.
Time is critical. Please at least open the links and consider what you might do to ensure our zip code doesn't determine how, where, when and if you can vote.
Alice, I liked your link and it is a fountain of good information to be sure.
However, I never met a single Republican that would be able to focus long enough to read your document.
You need to get your document down to 140 characters or, better, less than that.
Because: Republicans don't read much at all. They listen to the white man at the front of whatever their church is (Fox News Tucker Carslon or Sean Hannity), or pick the TV preacher of your choice spewing fire and brimstone followed by a call to support (give money).
You need to say short, authoritative sentences with high confidence, perhaps with a few expletives and THEN you can communicate with a Republican.
I tend to agree with you, Mike. I read the links and I did forward onto about a dozen people. I don't have social media accounts. I have often spoken and posted here about Katie Porter and her whiteboard. Quite frankly, although I admire the powerpoint from Alice, I agree with you that many of the "poorly educated" won't read it. It needs to be less scholarly, sadly, to attract the masses. And how important all the information contained in the power point is!!
Yes Miselle. Thomas Jefferson was always worried about an uneducated, poorly read population losing Democracy. Hence, his lifelong pursuit of good public education. Which did work for a while.
But. When whites had to go to school with blacks those white folks decided they would rather be ignorant and rolled out to private schools where, as we used to say, “they don’t learn Jack”.
Please do so. I appreciate any edit. Please remember that this is a teach in with facts and figures. The script helps those who are looking at the slides to understand their import. Actually, turning racists into empathetic civil rights' advocates is a tough assignment. But Senators Sinema, Manchin, Collins, Romney, Mulkowski and Porter are my targets. I think they have some ability to act with dignity. One can only hope.
We in NH, have been being subjected to horrible laws being put forth in the NH legislature and signed by the RW governor. This is all being made more complex by elected radical libertarians who in essence believe there should be NO laws. They went so far as to promulgate a Constitutional amendment bill to secede from the Union this legislative session. Fortunately, it was massively voted down by a 323 NO to 13 yes.
That's what the Free State Project is. There have been multiple members elected to the NH legislature in the past several years and they caucus w/Republicans of course, who are in the majority at present. One thing they've been working on is defunding public education by the establishment of school vouchers in order to divert the monies to private and religious schools and home schoolers then cutting the public education even more. The governor and Commissioner of education are behind this (and gee- one of his employees worked for DeVos!) Part of the problem is that NH gets a good chunk of public school funding from property taxes. As a result, property taxes will go up, especially in poor towns.
We Mainers face the threat of the same problems should the upcoming governor's race be won by our national embarrassment, Paul LePage. LePage, who evidently cannot get enough public recognition and Republican praise to satisfy his ego in private life, has moved back to Maine to torment us with yet another campaign to win the governorship for a third (non-consecutive) term. He's now parroting the Repub/libertarian line about education and diverting public funds to charter schools and religious academies (letting our public schools rot, apparently). Makes me want to scream!
Thanks for that. One thing I don't have to look up now- people across the country are asking me about it because I live next door. The media (including some from groups who are fighting FOR democracy) got the news out about the bill, but didn't bother saying that it was roundly voted down. The only thing I got was that it was defeated, but not by how much. And that matters. People who live in NH should not be lumped in with the NH governor.
I agree with Mike S and others that the Powerpoint is too lengthy and dense. I think Republicans aren't the only ones whose attention will begin to wander after a certain point.
A specific criticism I have relates to the points at which you list states which, prior to 1920, allowed women to vote. These should be edited to make clear that the right to vote in a given state allowing women to vote was only for state and, I think, local elections. Women still were not legally allowed to vote in federal elections.
Excerpt from an interesting article: "A 1916 article in the Ladies’ Home Journal presented the potential significance of the women’s vote: “Four million women will have the privilege to vote for a President of the United States this year… These four million women represent twelve states, which cast ninety-one ballots in the electoral college which elects the President. As a President must receive two hundred and sixty-six electoral-college votes necessary to a choice, the twelve equal-suffrage states represent little more than one-third of the total necessary to a choice. At the last Presidential election, in 1912, just one-half, six, of the present total of states gave the privilege to women to vote, and those states cast only thirty-seven electoral votes… "
To know more about how the Roberts Court has eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as amended here is a teach in on voting rights . Join the fight to overcome the attack by our current Supreme Court on voting rights. We need to convince every US Senator that the Senate must exercise its powers under Article 1.4 and the 14th and 15th Amendments to protect the right to vote. Thus the Senate must end the filibuster.
I don't believe that most Americans understand the real impact of individual States controlling the rules for voting OR that their zip code directly controls whether they can cast their ballots and what barriers they may have to overcome in order to vote.
Below are links to the script and a brief powerpoint presentation I gave Thursday to the Mid-peninsula Chapter of the ACLU of Northern CA.
These slides explain VERY SIMPLY election law from the original text in the Constitution, and how voting rights improved after the passage of the Voting Rights Act 1965 and its amendments. Protecting voting rights led to the election of our first black president in 2008. Thereafter, Chief Justice Roberts has led the Supreme Court's evisceration of the protections of our Voting Rights, step by step. This is explained visually.
My goal is to explain what has happened so that people will get angry and they themselves will advocate the President and their Senators and their Congressional representatives for the passage of the Freedom to Vote John R Lewis Act (HR5746). The powerpoint shows visually what passage of HR5746 would mean to all Americans and includes tools in the slides for taking action.
I AM ASKING YOU TO review THE SLIDES. READ THE SCRIPT. THEN, tell me if you have SHARED THIS email WITH => 20 contacts with family/friends who LIVE IN : NH, ID, PA, IA, MT, WI, MI, IN, FL, GA, WV, TX, NC, SC, OK, OH, LA, AK, AL, ND, or SD. as these states are the most repressive. The slides visually detail the states' actions to repress the vote. We need to get Senators in these states to support the Right to Vote. Contact US Senators in ME, AK, ID, WV, AZ, VT, NH, OH, PA because their states supported the Voting Right Act in 1965 and ask them to stand up for voting rights now.
Frankly, when I watch the Ukrainians fighting for their democracy, I am very angry that Americans aren't fighting at home to stop the march backwards away from Civil Rights in America.
The Text:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S-AI2GTMhL78yu0u0vGuZAQk7RYbCOAP/view?usp=sharing
The Slides:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ygEyuDaQY7HiqwK7OR0B9tAHmMdGT8rK/view?usp=sharing
Time is critical. Please at least open the links and consider what you might do to ensure our zip code doesn't determine how, where, when and if you can vote.
Thank you
Alice Schaffer Smith
Executive Director
National Voter Corps
www.nationalvotercorps.org
Alice, I liked your link and it is a fountain of good information to be sure.
However, I never met a single Republican that would be able to focus long enough to read your document.
You need to get your document down to 140 characters or, better, less than that.
Because: Republicans don't read much at all. They listen to the white man at the front of whatever their church is (Fox News Tucker Carslon or Sean Hannity), or pick the TV preacher of your choice spewing fire and brimstone followed by a call to support (give money).
You need to say short, authoritative sentences with high confidence, perhaps with a few expletives and THEN you can communicate with a Republican.
I tend to agree with you, Mike. I read the links and I did forward onto about a dozen people. I don't have social media accounts. I have often spoken and posted here about Katie Porter and her whiteboard. Quite frankly, although I admire the powerpoint from Alice, I agree with you that many of the "poorly educated" won't read it. It needs to be less scholarly, sadly, to attract the masses. And how important all the information contained in the power point is!!
Yes Miselle. Thomas Jefferson was always worried about an uneducated, poorly read population losing Democracy. Hence, his lifelong pursuit of good public education. Which did work for a while.
But. When whites had to go to school with blacks those white folks decided they would rather be ignorant and rolled out to private schools where, as we used to say, “they don’t learn Jack”.
Please do so. I appreciate any edit. Please remember that this is a teach in with facts and figures. The script helps those who are looking at the slides to understand their import. Actually, turning racists into empathetic civil rights' advocates is a tough assignment. But Senators Sinema, Manchin, Collins, Romney, Mulkowski and Porter are my targets. I think they have some ability to act with dignity. One can only hope.
We in NH, have been being subjected to horrible laws being put forth in the NH legislature and signed by the RW governor. This is all being made more complex by elected radical libertarians who in essence believe there should be NO laws. They went so far as to promulgate a Constitutional amendment bill to secede from the Union this legislative session. Fortunately, it was massively voted down by a 323 NO to 13 yes.
Good lord, “radical libertarians.” Another enemy of sanity…
That's what the Free State Project is. There have been multiple members elected to the NH legislature in the past several years and they caucus w/Republicans of course, who are in the majority at present. One thing they've been working on is defunding public education by the establishment of school vouchers in order to divert the monies to private and religious schools and home schoolers then cutting the public education even more. The governor and Commissioner of education are behind this (and gee- one of his employees worked for DeVos!) Part of the problem is that NH gets a good chunk of public school funding from property taxes. As a result, property taxes will go up, especially in poor towns.
We Mainers face the threat of the same problems should the upcoming governor's race be won by our national embarrassment, Paul LePage. LePage, who evidently cannot get enough public recognition and Republican praise to satisfy his ego in private life, has moved back to Maine to torment us with yet another campaign to win the governorship for a third (non-consecutive) term. He's now parroting the Repub/libertarian line about education and diverting public funds to charter schools and religious academies (letting our public schools rot, apparently). Makes me want to scream!
Ack. And to think I was recently considering moving there. Rethinking.
Thanks for that. One thing I don't have to look up now- people across the country are asking me about it because I live next door. The media (including some from groups who are fighting FOR democracy) got the news out about the bill, but didn't bother saying that it was roundly voted down. The only thing I got was that it was defeated, but not by how much. And that matters. People who live in NH should not be lumped in with the NH governor.
ThAnk you.
I agree with Mike S and others that the Powerpoint is too lengthy and dense. I think Republicans aren't the only ones whose attention will begin to wander after a certain point.
A specific criticism I have relates to the points at which you list states which, prior to 1920, allowed women to vote. These should be edited to make clear that the right to vote in a given state allowing women to vote was only for state and, I think, local elections. Women still were not legally allowed to vote in federal elections.
That’s not true because the first congresswoman was elected in 1917
I stand corrected.
Excerpt from an interesting article: "A 1916 article in the Ladies’ Home Journal presented the potential significance of the women’s vote: “Four million women will have the privilege to vote for a President of the United States this year… These four million women represent twelve states, which cast ninety-one ballots in the electoral college which elects the President. As a President must receive two hundred and sixty-six electoral-college votes necessary to a choice, the twelve equal-suffrage states represent little more than one-third of the total necessary to a choice. At the last Presidential election, in 1912, just one-half, six, of the present total of states gave the privilege to women to vote, and those states cast only thirty-seven electoral votes… "
https://library.whitman.edu/blog/presidential-election-1916/