McConnell killed election reform in Senate. Democrats will now take it to the people

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell held his entire Republican caucus together to effectively kill the Democrats’ highest legislative priority of the year, a transformative 888-page bill intended to make it easier to vote, rein in the wealthy’s impact on elections, and outlaw the gerrymandering process that constructs partisan congressional districts.

But Democrats stuck together, too, and after the defeat they universally vowed they’d just begun the fight.

While prospects for an overhaul of elections died legislatively with Tuesday’s 50-50 completely party line vote, Democrats and their progressive allies now intend to launch a multifaceted national political campaign that targets Republican senators, keeps the pressure on moderate Democrats and further villainizes the Senate Republican leader from Kentucky.

“In the fight for voting rights, this vote was the starting gun. Not the finish line,” declared Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., after the vote on the motion to proceed to a debate on the sweeping legislation failed to net the 60 votes necessary to advance.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-killed-election-reform-in-senate-democrats-will-now-take-it-to-the-people/ar-AALmtnX

[SheltieLover]

1. K&R!

[jmbar2]

2. We need T-Shirts to show our support of this campaign

Claude Taylor -- Maddog Pac -- TShirts please!

[Bev54]

3. Why? they have the support of the American people, can they just get on

with it and actually do something. A road show is not doing anything.

[Probatim]

7. I came to post the same thing.

Voting rights and infrastructure are supported by a majority of Americans - including republican voters - McTurtle doesn't give two shakes of a dog's d*ck about bipartisanship or what voters would like.

[zebrapa]

4. Fact

T'was Mancin and Sinema killed election reform.

[lagomorph777]

5. Yup. Either we kill the Filibuster or we kill America.

Manchin and Sinema seem to prefer the latter option.

[Dogboyzdad]

6. Just like the Democrats

Let the Republicans slash and burn the government in the belief that people will see how bad they are so they will sweep the Democrats to victory after victory. HASN"T WORKED YET but they're trying it again.