If you’re someone who cares about #VoterSuppression in Georgia, but you’re not sure if we have power to stop it, let me introduce you to Hancock County, where activists just struck a major blow against one of the leading voter suppressors! @rolandsmartin13wmaz.com/mobile/article…
GOP State Rep. Barry Fleming has been intimidating and suppressing Black voters for YEARS! In addition, he has served as the attorney for the county and from that position he defended the county sending armed polices to homes of almost 200 Black voters.
Well, after his latest voter suppression attempts, Black activists & allies demanded that he be fired as County attorney, and they won!
Quote from a Hancock County activist: “We might not be taking a lot of money out of his pocket, but it's sure going to embarrass the hell out of him to say your a** has been fired.”
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“That type of leverage will make some of these other state representatives in some of these rural towns say, 'Wait a minute.'”