To: Rep. Tom O’Halleran (AZ-1)
Restoration of Voting Rights
The US Supreme Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Since then efforts across the nation tremendous efforts to implement new restrictive laws that would gut the right of voting to millions of citizens, which is exactly what the Voting Rights Act was meant to protect.
Late last week, Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and John Conyers (D-MI) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced new legislation—the Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014—that would strengthen the Voting Rights Act. Efforts to kill this opportunity is genuine and a true uphill effort to restore voting rights is at hand - and must be successful for the benefit of every citizen.
We beseech Representative Ann Kirkpatrick to co-sponsor the Voting Rights of 2014 and restore the privilege of democracy and suffrage.
Some Republicans are looking to kill any chances of this bill even coming up for debate. The best way to prevent that is to get as much visible support early on. Already, there are nine co-sponsors of this bill—four Republicans and five Democrats. But Rep. Kirkpatrick isn't one of them. Can you help by getting a petition going to Rep. Kirkpatrick?
Late last week, Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and John Conyers (D-MI) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced new legislation—the Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014—that would strengthen the Voting Rights Act. Efforts to kill this opportunity is genuine and a true uphill effort to restore voting rights is at hand - and must be successful for the benefit of every citizen.
We beseech Representative Ann Kirkpatrick to co-sponsor the Voting Rights of 2014 and restore the privilege of democracy and suffrage.
Some Republicans are looking to kill any chances of this bill even coming up for debate. The best way to prevent that is to get as much visible support early on. Already, there are nine co-sponsors of this bill—four Republicans and five Democrats. But Rep. Kirkpatrick isn't one of them. Can you help by getting a petition going to Rep. Kirkpatrick?
Why is this important?
The Voting Rights Act is one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation Congress has ever passed. The effort afoot is to disenfranchise those rights and manipulate and polarize the voting public.