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Mitch McConnell: making Election Day a federal holiday is a Democratic power grab
McConnell is saying the quiet part out loud on voting rights.
By Tara Golshan Jan 30, 2019, 4:40pm EST
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doesnt think Election Day should be a federal holiday because that would give Democrats too much power.
McConnell took to the Senate floor Wednesday to rail against HR 1, the sweeping anti-corruption proposal House Democrats have put forward as their first bill in the majority. Among many other measures, it proposes making Election Day a federal holiday and encourages private sector businesses to do the same.
McConnell, who calls the bill the Democratic Politician Protection Act, sees that as a power grab.
The proposal to make Election Day a federal holiday is based on a simple reality: A wide swath of the American public doesnt vote and most of those nonvoters say they skipped the polls because they had to work or get kids to school and didnt have the time.
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https://www.vox.com/2019/1/30/18203936/mitch-mcconnell-election-day-federal-holiday
underpants
(183,043 posts)What a radical idea.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)'Cause more people voting means you and your kind are burnt toast...
defacto7
(13,485 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Revanchist
(1,375 posts)That way businesses can stagger employees so that everyone has a chance to vote and have a day off
JDC
(10,152 posts)I would suggest limiting their opportunity to vote, is more of one.
These clowns know they are nothing if the people actually showed up and spoke through their vote.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Campaign of Hubert Humphrey for President . And this was early 1960,one of our Message items was,a National Day for Voting. So this is nothing new. BTW,do recall this idea being brought forth by Tom Harkin,Paul Wellstone,and again by Bobby Kennedy.
unblock
(52,503 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,498 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,564 posts)Moscow Mitch and the Russiapublicans do not want democracy. They want to select their voters, not be selected by voters.
coeur_de_lion
(3,690 posts)Asshole.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)akraven
(1,975 posts)A simple even half-holiday would provide access to voters.
Takket
(21,715 posts)This is a disgrace to democracy!!!!!!!!!