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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 07:06 PM Jan 2017

I proudly stand with the NAACP in their opposition to Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III




(CNN)The NAACP is staging a sit-in at the Mobile, Alabama, office of US Sen. Jeff Sessions to protest Sessions' nomination as US attorney general.

The protesters say they will stay until Sessions is no longer the nominee or they are arrested.
"We are asking the senator to withdraw his name for consideration as attorney general or for the president-elect, Donald Trump, to withdraw the nomination," NAACP President Cornell William Brooks said Tuesday afternoon from Sessions' office.
"In the midst of rampant voter suppression, this nominee has failed to acknowledge the reality of voter suppression while pretending to believe in the myth of voter fraud."
Alabama NAACP President Benard Simelton said he and 15-20 others are there "conducting business as usual" and will remain until "Sessions meets our demands or the arrest -- whichever he chooses."
Sessions was nominated in November.
Brooks posted a photo on Twitter of himself, Simelton and two other activists in Sessions' office


http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/03/politics/jeff-sessions-naacp-protest-alabama/index.html
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I proudly stand with the NAACP in their opposition to Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 OP
I am strongly opposed to Sessions being AG Gothmog Jan 2017 #1
K & R Scurrilous Jan 2017 #2
i stand w them and mopinko Jan 2017 #3

mopinko

(70,120 posts)
3. i stand w them and
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 07:23 PM
Jan 2017

the congressional black caucus that is right there refusing to swallow a drop of this bullshit.

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