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crickets

(26,168 posts)
10. I understand they're frustrated, but what good does it do to stay away?
Mon Jan 10, 2022, 08:01 PM
Jan 2022

Yes, it took longer than anyone would like, but it's not as though President Biden hasn't been busy with cleaning up a billion messes left behind by tfg, COVID, the BBB, Russia, stalled appointments, and on and on. Show up to talk to him, air your grievances, add to the discussion. Staying away is refusing to support the guy who is trying his best to help.

Biden and Harris have not been idle on the issue.

https://www.ironmountaindailynews.com/opinion/2021/07/amid-growing-frustration-wh-pushes-voting-rights/ Jul 2021

The Biden administration on Thursday unveiled new efforts to help protect voting rights as complaints have grown louder from civil rights activists and other Democrats that the White House has not done enough to fight attempts by several Republican-led state legislatures to restrict access to the ballot.

President Joe Biden met with civil rights leaders in the West Wing, while Vice President Kamala Harris announced $25 million in new spending by the Democratic National Committee to support efforts to protect voting access ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. [snip]

Although not abandoning hope of a legislative solution, the West Wing has been shifting focus to other measures to protect the vote, including legal remedies pursued by the Department of Justice and in individual states, according to the officials. There also will be an emphasis on boosting voter turnout, with aides pointing to the successes Democrats had in getting out votes last year during the height of the pandemic. [snip]

“We’re past the point where we’ve lost faith that he’s going to do it on his own,” said Cliff Albright, co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund. “Where’s your voting rights tour? People have already started to call this out. That’s just going to escalate.”


Better late than never, here it is - the voting rights tour you wanted. WTH?

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