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Had to have a birth certificate. i went home to retrieve a letter that she s had all these years because she had conducted a very thorough search in her original state of birth and they indicated there was none of record. she was born at a time when it wasn t uncommon that the they didn t register people of color when they were born. and until she moved to wisconsin, that letter had served fine for her to indicate who she was, but the issue here is that beginning december 23rd is when i found out that she could not get the i.d. at the department of motor vehicles. i began the search process then for our upcoming april 3rd election. and i have here your mother voted i want people around the country to understand it. she voted in every election since 1956. we re not talking about someone who is not a voter. we re not talking about someone who hasn t voted for half a century. and she s denied the right to vote even with a record of ....
Voting every election in a half a century because she moved to a state that had these laws that required her to have a birth certificate that she didn t get because of the color of her skin. they were not giving birth certificates at the time of her birth. she s voted regularly since 1956. i don t think she s ever missed a major general election. and that s the case. she helped as part of the civil rights movement when they were electing the first black mayor carl stokes. and, yes, right now, right now, she is not able to produce that birth certificate, even though she has a photo i.d. from another state and that she has a record of voting with regularity in another state. she cannot vote in this state, in this upcoming election unless i can get the documents. and i ve been working on it since december. and i ve invested almost $100. judith, let me go back to you. out of 11 million votes cast in that state since 2004 in the ....
And in milwaukee, we have deborah crawford whose 77-year-old mother betty jones is one of the lead plaintiffs in that case. betty s voted in every election since 1956. today she can t get voter i.d. in wisconsin. great to have both of you with us. judith? let me start with you. i want to talk about this lawsuit. but first, what do you make of this lawmaker who got caught redhanded in wisconsin voting for his absent colleague? you know, reverend sharpton, you have done a great job over the last month few months showing the republican party getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar. the hypocrisy of this, the folks who talk about election integrity and talk about trying to stop voter fraud caught redhanded doing it themselves time and time again. just like the case in maryland ....
Not only would it ban abortions. it would ban most forms of birth control and in vitro fertilization and even probably stem cell research. and so you see this. you see restrictions on women s access to birth control. i m so proud of my colleagues in virginia today for making them postpone the personhood bill. we still have a bill in virginia and many other states that requires women to get unnecessary medical procedures before they can exercise their legal rights to women s health. so we re seeing unprecedented assaults on women s health at every level. at the state level, theatfederal level. and i hope the women of america hear what happened with the women in virginia and they start acting the same way around the country because it is very, very dangerous when women s health is put so much at risk as it is in this election year. no doubt about it. when you look at the fact that 13 states around the country are ....
Against birth control is ridiculous. it alienates women. and they ve alienated hispanics. you put that all together and they are headed for demographic doom in this election. bob shrum and nia-malika henderson. thank you both for joining me tonight. thank you, rev. coming up, a major republican retreat and their assault on women s health. can their radical agenda be pushed back across the country? plus, republicans say president obama is to blame for high gas prices. today, he struck back. the american people aren t stupid. they know that s not a plan. especially since we re already drilling. that s a bumper sticker. it s not a strategy to solve our energy challenge. and conservatives take aim at dr. seuss. watch out, america. ....