Senator Joe Manchin’s own state of West Virginia has introduced 4 bills to restrict voting access.
In October, Manchin urged early voting and absentee ballots, but is currently upholding the filibuster and blocking voting rights.
What West Virginian voter suppression bills is Joe Manchin refusing to stop? Glad you asked.
HB 2607 restricts handicapped voting and potentially ensures their vote won’t count. Curbside voters have to wait for no one to be in line in order to vote.
HB 2666 sets to put restrictions on absentee ballots.
SB 565 deals with absentee voting and purging voter roles. Voters sometimes have their names purged and only discover it when attempting to vote.
SB 516, reported by the Brennan Center, doesn’t appear to be a voting bill.
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🚨 Republicans in Joe Manchin’s home state of West Virginia have introduced a bill to close many curbside voting locations and force disabled voters to perpetually wait until “no voters are voting or waiting to vote” at remaining locations.
This bill would make it harder for a those with disabilities, a protected class of people, to vote, forcing them to be perpetually at the back of the line until able-bodied voters have finished voting.
Under the bill, if a location has handicap access, then no curbside voting will be offered.
Old Navy is supplying signs and having employees create $300 “hazard pay” celebration videos and pics for working through the pandemic.
One employee wrote his hazard pay bonus will go towards a “hearing aid.”
The CEO of Old Navy makes $6 million a year.
A leaked Gap document titled “Winning Together Employee Bonus” directs store leaders to “print out customizable template and encourage employees to share their bonus story… for a chance to be featured on Gap, Inc. social media channels.”
Gap’s CEO makes $21.9M a year, or $10,528 an hour. This is 1000x the average pay for an old navy employee.
Employees hired after Jan. 31st won’t receive a $300 bonus.
Martin Luther King, Jr. called the filibuster a “tragedy” used by “misguided Senators” to block “people from even voting.”
Senators who use the filibuster “do not represent the majority of the American people.” #MisguidedSenators
MLK answered that the upcoming March on Washington, where King would deliver his famous “I have a Dream” speech, is part of the fight to protest the filibuster and obtain civil rights legislation. #ProtestTheFilibuster
“No compromise! No filibuster!” - Bayard Rustin, executive director for the March on Washington.
Ruston attacked compromise and the filibuster, demanding civil rights legislation to protect the right to vote.