Courtesy of WRCR.
The defeat of the voting rights bill in the Senate Wednesday night has an area representative vowing to continue the fight. Rockland Congressman Mondaire Jones took to the House floor after the vote on the “Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act,” and said the fight will continue…
Key to passing a voting rights bill, Congressman Jones said, would be to have Democrats pick up more Senate seats this fall and make the filibuster an impossibility.