If the revised voting rights bill is truly strong, truly what John Lewis would've wanted, truly what’s needed and not something Manchin has watered down & compromised away to please the US Chamber of Commerce and Republican extremists, then the full movement might support it. ...
But if it's not, those of us in movements that are free to speak the truth, along with seasoned civil rights leaders, voting rights lawyers, and religious leaders will expose it. The attacks in this moment are too real for us to just keep going through the motions.
When the details of the bill are read, we will find out if it was compromised down to weakness. There can be no moderate position on voting rights and equal protection under the law!
https://twitter.com/michaelsozan/status/1437503045496102913?s=21
This cannot be a political game with Joe Manchin. It’s bad enough he’s leading the committee. Normally the fox doesn't guard the henhouse, but the details, the fine print of the bill will tell if he is a sly fox or a reformed person.
We are going to set the original bill side-by-side this new bill and compare and tell the people the truth. Somebody has said "we just need to finish the job." We in the #PoorPeoplesCampaign and others believe that's not quite right. We must finish the job right ...
and in line with the constitutional mandate to ensure no state can deny or abridge the right to vote for anybody! Anything less is failure.
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