Letter: Democrats open to working with all comers
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Jack Turner’s recent column equating Georgia’s new Jim Crow voting law to the challenges faced by unaffiliated candidates seeking office in Colorado is unfortunate. The Georgia law is a not-so-thinly-veiled effort to make it harder for citizens of color to vote. It continues more than four hundred years of oppression, degradation and denial of civic participation. In contrast, Unaffiliated Colorado citizens face no such opposition to casting their votes.
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Jack Turner: Both political parties practice voter suppression
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Jack Turner: Both political parties practice voter suppression
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There is great media focus on the Republican-dominated legislatures determined to unfairly reduce, restrict or eliminate likely Democratic Party voters – just look at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game dust-up over proposed Georgia voting laws.
Because those voters are often minority members, the suppression efforts are both unethical and racist. The antiseptic view of the phenomena, however, is that those GOP legislatures would rewrite election laws to benefit the populations of color if they were reliable Republican voters.
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