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Mon Feb 21, 2022, 11:48 AM Feb 2022

'Don't choke my vote': Voting rights protesters descend on Reagan Day Dinner

By Isiah Holmes, Wisconsin Examiner
Published February 21, 2022

The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow a ban on ballot drop boxes during elections in April generated a backlash from voting rights advocates in the state. Organizers from the Poor People’s Campaign, Souls to the Polls, Voces de la Frontera, Fight for $15, and other activist groups showed up to raise their voices on Friday evening outside the Radisson Hotel in Wauwatosa, where the state GOP’s annual Reagan Day Dinner was underway.

“These diners at the Radisson know that we could win these elections if they played them fair,” Rev. Greg Lewis, founder of Souls to the Polls, said during the rally. “So they have to do everything they can to make it difficult for us.” Lewis spoke to a crowd of a couple of dozen protesters gathered on the sidewalk near the hotel. The crowd’s energy seemed unaffected by the heavy winds that buffeted them. Among the items created for the demonstration was a towering walking puppet in the image of Republican candidate for governor Rebecca Kleefisch, who attended the dinner at the Radisson.

“The people coming to this expensive dinner tonight are people who want us to be quiet and go away,” said Lewis. “They want us to stop voting so they can control who leads our communities, our state and our nation. We will fight back every step of the way. We will win back our state and we will rebuild a society where everyone matters, everyone is cared for and everyone can flourish in their own way.”

https://www.rawstory.com/reagan-day-dinner/

Well I wonder if Sinema and Manchin saw or read this piece, since there siding with the 52-48 filibuster vote, those right wing authoritarian hypocrites in Wisconsin are in the act of dismantling more rights to enable people to vote....

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