2022 AL Governor's race: on Civil Rights


Lynda Blanchard: Don't pit color against color; we are all the same

Blanchard said that she is sensitive to the Critical Race Theory issue because several of her children are adopted and not white. "You don't pit color against color," Blanchard said. "You can't start with the mindset that you are the winner and you are the victim. We are all immigrants. We are all the same."
Source: AL Political Reporter on 2022 Alabama Gubernatorial race May 12, 2021

Malika Sanders-Fortier: There's unfinished business of the Civil Rights Movement

The Voting Rights Act, signed into law in 1965, was a triumph, though it wasn't the end of the struggle for equality. "There's unfinished business of the Civil Rights Movement," says Malika Sanders Fortier. The lawyer and activist from the Sanders clan, who hopes to win her father's seat in the Alabama legislature after he retires, is part of a wave of Black women seeking elected office here. "So many people sacrificed to help make America a democracy," says the wife and mother of six. "That promise has not yet been fulfilled."
Source: Essence magazine on 2022 Alabama Gubernatorial race Oct 24, 2020

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Candidates and political leaders on Civil Rights:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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