Head football coach Nick Saban of the University of Alabama and other prominent sports personalities associated with West Virginia have urged US Sen. Joe Manchin to support comprehensive legislation to protect the right to vote.
Saban was accompanied by NBA Hall of Famer Jerry West, a fellow West Virginia native, in a letter to the Democratic senator on January 13, ahead of the debate on the Senate’s Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act. The Senate considered the bill on Tuesday.
The package before the Senate would make Election Day a national holiday and require early voting and access to mail-in ballots that became highly popular during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nationwide voting advocates warn that Republican-led states are making it more difficult for black Americans and others to vote by consolidating polling places, requiring some form of identification and ordering other changes.
In the letter, the group said the principles that helped ensure fair and free elections are now subject to deliberate and unprecedented challenge.
We are all certain that democracy is at its best when voting is open to all on an equal footing; The referees are neutral; And at the end of the game the final score is respected and accepted, the letter reads.
The letter was also signed by former NFL players Oliver Luck and Darryl Talley, both graduates of West Virginia University, as well as former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue.
The group said lawmakers must guarantee that all Americans have an equal voice in our democracy and that federal elections are conducted with integrity so that the votes of all eligible voters can determine election results.
Voting the bill was the Democrats’ top priority in this Congress, and the House swiftly approved the legislation, only to see it in the Senate, opposed by Republicans. With a 50-50 split, Democrats with a narrow majority of the Senate, Vice President Kamala Harris, could break a tie, but she lacks the 60 votes needed to stave off a GOP filibuster.
The focus is on Cinema, Arizona’s Democrats Manchin and Kirsten, who were chosen with a barrage of criticism during the events of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which civil rights leaders refused to replace the Jim Crow filibuster with. .
Martin Luther King III, son of the late civil rights leader, compared cinema and Manchin to white liberals, his father writing about a man during the civil rights fight of the 1950s and 1960s who fought for black voting rights goals. Support was announced, but not the direct act or performance that eventually led to the passing of the landmark legislation.
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