Today’s Edition (Vol. 2, No. 63) Small Acts of Democracy For those of you who are feeling despair over the seemingly unstoppable wave of GOP voter suppression efforts at the state level, I want to share an email I received from a reader on Wednesday. The reader lives in the City of Washington, Georgia, which is a suburb of Atlanta. About 60% of the city’s residents are Black. Like many municipalities not large enough to employ full-time legal staff, the City of Washington hires an outside lawyer to serve as the “City Attorney.” For the last sixteen years, the “for-hire” City Attorney for Washington has been Barry Fleming, who is both an attorney and a member of the Georgia Legislature. Mr. Fleming is the principal author of Georgia’s voter suppression law. The residents of the City of Washington were understandably upset that their City Attorney authored a bill designed to disenfranchise Black voters in their city.
Excellent opener. We should all be like your Georgia readers, and make our voices heard.