This letter appeared in yesterday’s Inquirer (a very timely reminder, especially given
this item from HuffPo and The Brad Blog).
For more than 40 years, the Voting Rights Act has protected and upheld the most fundamental building block of our great democracy: the right to vote and have one's vote counted. Yet key provisions of the Voting Rights Act will expire next year unless the U.S. Senate and the House renew them now. So take a moment and encourage your senators and representative to support the bill and oppose any weakening amendments.
As a nation, we have made significant progress toward eliminating voting discrimination, but work remains. For that reason, these provisions are essential to ensure meaningful and fair representation, as well as equal voting rights for all. Now, as much as ever, we must safeguard the right that all American citizens have to equal voting rights.
Richard J. Bioteau
Glenside
I second, third, and fourth Mr. Bioteau’s thoughts on this, and to contact our politicians in Washington to let them know also, click
here.
This letter appeared in yesterday’s Inquirer (a very timely reminder, especially given this item from HuffPo and The Brad Blog).
5 comments:
Are you sure that they are his thoughts? If you google the first sentence, you'll find many saying exactly the same thing. Word for word. Sounds more like parroting some astroturf than original thinking.
To me, it's not a question of how original the words are in this case, but how important they are. I understand that they've probably been echoed by others preivously.
Cool pic in your profile, by the way...
"Previously" - ugh, and I busted on another commenter for spelling; serves me right.
Sorry...I was on another blog that was whining about people writing letters to the editor that were copied from "activist" web sites. I found your post while researching other letters to the editor in our local paper. (Which means the exact letter appeared in our local paper). I agree with the spelling issue. It seems like less and less people care about getting it right. I'm sure yours was a typo, not a spelling error. (g)
Yep, I know both sides do the "cut and paste" thing to promote favored causes and send them to newspapers - I personally don't have an issue with that as long as people are telling something that approximates the truth. Also, thanks for cutting me slack on the typo.
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