MLK’s Family Call Out Sinemanchin For Stonewalling Voting Rights

The family of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been turning up the heat on Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) as the senators clutch onto the filibuster, which dooms any chance of passing Democrats’ voting rights legislation.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1401469

OT, sorry, but I keep saying this and occasionally get some sneering pushback, as if I don’t grasp the obvious. If you don’t believe me, then, believe the conservative voices saying it ever louder:

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OT: Marcy says DoJ playing coy with Willard Hotel insurrectionists, but they would be right to worry in her latest article.

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I’m glad those two are being publicly shamed even if they still refuse to do the right thing. There’s a price to be paid for helping mitch and the repubs in their efforts to disenfranchise and silence the voice of so many Americans. I just wish the price were higher.

Petty of me, perhaps, but there it is.

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Ann Coulter is now, ‘the voice of reason’ in the GQP.

Time to up my medication :pill: :upside_down_face:

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Ha! She’s contemptible but she’s been exasperated and done with him for a long time and for reasons that aren’t wrong. It’s a question of being willing to say it and have enough guts to stick with it. Liz Cheney comes to mind.

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MLK family seeks to engage Sinema
Sinema dashes for a restroom and declares Sanctuary.

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This is wonderful news…of course, Manchinema caution that those who hounded, hosed, stalked and jailed King have a voice as well.

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Her tweet today is one of the most infuriating things I’ve ever seen on Twitter. And that’s really saying something.

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She gave the attempt a big thumbs down…

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Making someone sweat big time. Roger oh Roger.

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She doesn’t see him as a winner. She’s right and it’s her ‘two cents’, so yeah.

had he won again, she would have destroyed impediments to again be his fan club president.

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One apt response to the Tweet…

Who is “we”, You and James Earl Ray?

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Sinemanchin “support” the voting rights bill. They just don’t support passing it. Manchin is all in for the filibuster, about which, as he made publicly clear, he knows next to nothing.
In a sane country the national media would be pointing and laughing at these “silly and perfidious” people (thanks JM) 24/7. Which is to say, in a sane country, they wouldn’t exist. In this country, they have a death grip, pun intended, on the fate of the republic and democracy.

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Yes. I think she’s still for De Santis. Should he somehow become President, it has every potential for being an utter disaster.

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I agree. Brazen is far too weak a word.

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She’s going to be disappointed with him, as he’s probably disappointed with the court system currently not handling Trump.

However, the dog whistle matters and whoever comes out of the 2024 primary, knows that Ann is still a faithful…

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Just waiting on Mark Kelly.

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These two Democrats have decided that it is much more important to them to protect the voting rights of the minority on the Senate floor than to protect the voting rights of minorities in this great country of ours, the minorities that made it possible for them to be in the position that they’re currently in,” Representative James E. Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina and the majority whip, said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “So, I hope, but I don’t think, that we will change their mind.”

Keep pushing make them vote.

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