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8 Apr 2021
Leaders of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) sent a letter to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R), urging him to withdraw his support for the state’s new election integrity legislation, which they refer to as a “voter suppression law.”
“We write to condemn the voter suppression law Senate Bill 202, which threatens to undermine the pillar of our democracy the right to vote,” reads the letter, obtained by Deadline, written by DGA president Thomas Schlamme and national executive director Russell Hollander. “President Biden has referred to the law both as an ‘atrocity’ and as a modern-day version of Jim Crow.”
Thomas Schlamme and Russell Hollander We urge you to reconsider your support for this misguided law and to make every effort to unwind its restrictions before it takes full effect on July 1st, wrote the directors guild s leaders.
As Hollywood continues to roll out its condemnations of Georgia s new election law, the Directors Guild of America has unleashed one of the strongest critiques yet.
The guild s president Thomas Schlamme and its national executive director Russell Hollander sent a letter directly to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, writing that the bill threatens to undermine the pillar of our democracy. They went on to denounce the bill for reviving discredited practices intended to suppress the voice of Black people and other people of color that were so common in the days before the landmark Voting Rights Act.