LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Last Friday, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and several members of her staff traveled to Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 59th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.”
On March 7, 1965, activist John Lewis lead a march of 600 people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma just a few months after the passage of the 1964 Voter Rights Act. The march ended as a violent mob attacked them on the other side of the bridge.
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“From Birmingham to Montgomery to Selma, people marched on Sunday to learn from the past and honor our heroes, while thinking about our own part in protecting every voice and every vote now,” Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said, “I want to thank voting rights warriors for reminding me who I am and who I seek to be.”
Selma Mayor James Perkins presented Benson with a key to the city.
Benson has long boasted that she is a “defender of democracy” and has continued her discussion of voter rights and fighting a “common adversary.”
In an interview with far-left Meidas Touch, MI SOS Jocelyn Benson says 6 battleground secretaries of state (AZ, WI, MI, PA, GA, NV) are “coordinating” to develop “common strategies” against “a common adversary”. By that, she obviously means Donald Trump and Republicans. pic.twitter.com/Rm2De8t3yn
— The Midwesterner (@Th_Midwesterner) March 5, 2024
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Traveling out of state for certain causes is not a foreign concept to the current administration. This week, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is in Taiwan and North Korea drumming up business for Michigan.
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