July 29, 2021 Press Release
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Pelosi joined Senator Klobuchar, advocates and state legislators from across the country for a press call urging Congress to pass federal voting rights legislation. Below are the Speaker’s remarks:
Speaker Pelosi. Thank you very much, Jessie. You couldn’t see me, but I was hearing what you all had to say. Senator Klobuchar, Madam Chair, thank you for your very strong statement. You gave us hope with that. And to all of you, thank you for your courage and speaking out on this.
This is outrageous. This – we are the minutemen. We are the – we are the saviors of our democracy. And you all are courageously on the forefront of all of that. I was in Georgia about a week and a half ago, maybe two weeks now. And I did hear directly from the Georgians what the urgency represents and what the urgency was for Georgia, to get a national bill passed. Thank you for your courageous leadership.
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ATLANTA (AP) The Georgia lawmaker who was arrested after knocking on the door of the governor’s office as he made televised comments in support of the sweeping, controversial new election law he’d just signed will not be charged, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Rep. Park Cannon, an Atlanta Democrat, was arrested March 25 and charged with obstruction of law enforcement and disruption of the General Assembly. She was released from jail later that evening.
“While some of Representative Cannon’s colleagues and the police officers involved may have found her behavior annoying, such sentiment does not justify a presentment to a grand jury of the allegations in the arrest warrants or any other felony charges,” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said in an emailed statement.
Georgia lawmaker won t face charges for voting bill protest
FILE-In this Thursday, March 25, 2021 file photo, State Rep. Park Cannon, D-Atlanta, is placed into the back of a Georgia State Capitol patrol car after being arrested by Georgia State Troopers at the Georgia State Capitol Building in Atlanta. Cannon was arrested by Capitol police after she attempted to knock on the door of the Gov. Brian Kemp office during his remarks after he signed into law a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of state elections. The Fulton County District attorney won t prosecute Cannon, announced Wednesday, April 7, 2021, who was arrested for knocking on the governor s door during a voting bill signing. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
Lawmaker arrested for knocking on governor s door urges Americans to keep knocking
State Rep. Park Cannon addresses media after case dismissed by Fulton County DA
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Georgia state Rep. Park Cannon, the Democrat who was arrested for knocking on Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp s door as he signed the state s voting bill, says she will keep knocking. I ask you, Georgia, to keep knocking, Cannon said at a news conference Thursday outside the state capitol in Atlanta. America, keep knocking. All of the marginalized people, keep knocking. On March 25, Cannon repeatedly knocked on Kemp s office door at the statehouse while he gave remarks after signing into law new voting requirements in Georgia following the results of the 2020 election that flipped the traditionally red state to blue.
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