2022 AL Senate race: on Civil Rights
John Merrill:
2016: Recognized by the ACLU as the Champion for Democracy
- In 2012, John Merrill was named the Alabama House Legislator of the Year by the Children's Trust Fund.
- In 2013, he was named as the Child Advocate of the Year at the Early Intervention and Preschool Conference.
- John was identified by the
Sunlight Foundation as the Most Effective Republican Member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 2011-14.
- In 2015, he was selected as one of 48 leaders from around the nation to attend and graduate from the Council of
State Government's prestigious Henry Toll Fellowship Leadership Program.
- In 2016, he was recognized by the American Civil Liberties Union as the Champion for Democracy.
- In 2017, 2018, and 2019, he was recognized by the Aga Khan Foundation
with the Community Support Award.
- In 2019, he received the Leading Globally Matters Locally Award from the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition for his work domestically and internationally.
Source: ACLU on Secretary of State website: 2022 Alabama Senate race
Jan 23, 2021
Katie Britt:
Supports equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome
[On racial equality]: "The American Dream is of equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome. We must always root out racism wherever it exists, but as we continue on our daily march
to form a more perfect union, we cannot lose sight of the fact that America is the greatest force for good the world has ever known."
Source: Alabama Political Reporter on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Jul 15, 2021
Lynda Blanchard:
Radical attempts to force transgender agenda an abomination
April 26: Thank you Governor Kay Ivey for delivering a win for the people of Alabama. The Dems radical attempts to force their transgender agenda on our
State and Country is an abomination and this sends a clear message that we put our conservative values first.
Source: Facebook posting for 2022 Alabama Senate race
May 9, 2021
Lynda Blanchard:
No one can choose gender because God made that choice
Perhaps the policy initiative that carries the most potential for lasting and long-term damage to our nation is the radical "transgender" agenda.
Nobody gets to choose whether we are men or women because God already made that choice for us long before birth.
Source: Yellow Hammer News on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Apr 1, 2021
Mike Durant:
Radicals redefine American values with Critical Race Theory
Joe Biden starts making bad decisions from the moment he wakes up in the morning. Mike has watched as Joe Biden has been asleep at the switch deserting our core principles--abandoning our allies, even American citizens, in Afghanistan; cowering to the
influence of the Chinese as they evade responsibility for the China Virus; or letting the radical left re-define our core American values through things like Critical Race Theory.
Source: 2022 Alabama Senate campaign website MikeDurant.com
Mar 30, 2022
Mo Brooks:
2014: Democrats wage war on whites
Brooks landed in an even bigger controversy in August 2014. As by conservative radio host Laura Ingraham about a statement that the Republican party was alienating non-white voters, Brooks responded: "This is a part of the war on whites that's being
launched by the Democratic Party. And the way in which they're launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. It's a part of the strategy that Barack Obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides us all on race,
on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, and all those kinds of things." Ingraham responded that the characterization was "a little out there," and numerous Democrats blasted Brooks for playing the race card. But he was unapologetic. On a regular basis,
Brooks said a few days later, Democrats "appeal to specific racial groups by saying we will protect you, that particular racial group -well, who are they talking about protecting them from? Well, they're talking about protecting them from Republicans."
Source: Almanac of American Politics on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Oct 5, 2015
Terri Sewell:
Backed Congressional Medal for 1963 church bombing victims
The murder of Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, shook the nation. But it wasn't until 2013--50 years after the Ku Klux Klan bombing--that the victims were officially acknowledged for their sacrifice with what
Sewell described as, "the highest civilian honor that Congress can bestow upon anyone." Sewell was the sponsor of a bill that posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal to the girls, an action that came as the result of a sense of personal duty.
Source: NBC Boston on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Feb 24, 2021
Will Boyd:
Close the gender wage gap & champion race relations
- Close the gender wage gap for women
- Work to ensure that politics don't interfere with efforts to promote equal rights for all
- Unify the State of Alabama, championing discussions on "race relations," diversity,
and equality
- Combat income inequality, working to ensure that women are truly paid the same wages for the same work.
Source: 2022 Alabama Senate campaign website DrWillBoyd.com
May 25, 2022
Will Boyd:
Add LGBTQIA to the Civil Rights Act of 1965
- Support the Equality Act, which would add LGBTQIA to the Civil Rights Act of 1965 as a protected class
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Unify the State of Alabama, championing discussions on "race relations," diversity, and equality
Source: 2022 Alabama Senate campaign website DrWillBoyd.com
May 25, 2022
Katie Britt:
Enforce Court decision ending college affirmative action
On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court struck a blow against institutionally-driven racism in the United States. In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College, the Supreme Court found [that colleges with affirmative action admissions] were
impermissibly discriminating against certain applicants based exclusively on their race.While the Court took a big step forward in eliminating racial discrimination in admissions, more work remains to be done. In his remarks in the wake of the
landmark decision, President Biden proposed "a new standard, where colleges take into account the adversity a student has overcome, including racial discrimination that individuals have faced in their own lives."
We call upon the Biden administration
to embrace the Court's holdings: racial discrimination [does not] have any place in schooling. The American people deserve no less than an Executive Branch committed to enforcing the law equally to all people without concern for their race.
Source: Ernst.Senate.Gov press release: for 2022 Alabama Senate race
Sep 12, 2023
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