Friday, June 5, 2015

Hillary Clinton Attacks GOP for Gutting Voting Rights and Lays Out 6 Major Reforms | Alternet

Hillary Clinton Attacks GOP for Gutting Voting Rights and Lays Out 6 Major Reforms | Alternet

"Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who launched his presidential campaign this week, had signed laws “that a federal court said were written to discriminate against minorities,” she said. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker cut early voting and made it harder for college students to vote. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed early voting legislation. And Jeb Bush was Florida’s governor in 2000 when a “deeply flawed purge” removed tens of thousands of legal non-white voters, contributing to George W. Bush’s appointment to the presidency by the Supreme Court."