Mitch McConnell’s Message To Minorities On Selma Anniversary: Your Vote Won’t Count

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Mitch McConnell’s Message To Minorities On Selma Anniversary: Your Vote Won’t Count
By: Jason Easley

When asked about the Voting Rights Act on Face The Nation, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s message to minority voters was that he has no interest in making sure that their votes will count.

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Transcript via Face The Nation: http://www.politicususa.com/2015/03/08/mitch-mcconnells-message-minorities-selma-anniversary-vote-count.html

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That was a big no on restoring The Voting Rights Act from Sen. McConnell. Mitch McConnell has repeatedly dodged any questions about the Voting Rights Act. His answer on Face The Nation was to claim that the law is still intact. The problem is that the Voting Rights Act is not intact. It was gutted by the Supreme Court. The shell of what remains is called the Voting Rights Act, but it a law with no teeth.

McConnell tried to dodge the question after the Supreme Court decision, but he gave away his position when he said, “Well, I haven’t read [the decision] yet. Obviously, it is an important bill that passed back in the sixties, at a time when we had a very different America than we have today. […] I think I’m just going to have to read it first, but I would say that I do think America is very different from what it was in the 1960s.”

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