Mitch McConnell's own state just slammed him for blocking a bill that protects voters.
Voting rights advocates in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's home state of Kentucky ran a full-page ad in the local Sunday paper calling McConnell out for stopping a voting rights bill from coming up for a vote in the Senate.
'"We the people demand a hearing on the For the People Act," said the ad from the League of Women Voters of Kentucky (LWVKY). The ad appeared in the Courier Journal in Louisville, and smaller versions of the ad ran on Saturday and Monday. It encouraged readers to call their senators and demand a committee hearing on the bill.
"Kentuckians have lost confidence that our voices are being heard and fairly represented," Fran Wagner, LWVKY president, said in a statement. "We have a system in which corporate/money interests unduly influence politicians, gerrymandered districts strip voters of their voice, and voting restrictions disenfranchise eligible voters," she added.
McConnell's refusal to take any actions on the House-passed bill was cited as the reason LWVKY decided to run an ad calling for a hearing, which is typically a precursor to voting on a bill. . .
His position is so repulsive that one Kentucky newspaper, the Lexington Herald-Leader, called his views "segregationist" and declared McConnell "has all but declared that he's against removing barriers to voting and making elections cleaner and more fair because he thinks it would help Democrats win."'>>>
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