Subject: RE: Rights Restoration Call
From: "Jefferson, Deshundra" <[email-masked]>
To: Regional Press <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 12:29:02 -0700

We got a hit from Black Enterprise:
http://www.blackenterprise.com/news/rep-clyburn-accuses-gop-political-opportunism/

From: Jefferson, Deshundra
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 2:23 PM
To: Regional Press
Subject: Rights Restoration Call

The Governor held a separate event on rights restoration last night, so that garnered most of the headlines.

A member of The Virginian-Pilot's editorial board is doing a column based on our call tomorrow. I also set up an interview for Terry Garrett, the activist on our call, to do an interview with The Ellison Report on WEAA 88.9 FM in Baltimore. I will circulate the interview when it airs.

Here are two print hits we received:

Richmond Times-Dispatch | McAuliffe says blanket rights restoration was his 'greatest day as governor<http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/article_f2987aa9-acad-5c37-913d-7a93b6c62ef6.html>

Earlier Thursday, Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, D-3rd, said on a conference call arranged by Democrats that the restriction on felons' voting rights that McAuliffe sought to undo "disproportionately affects African-Americans" and that it was no accident.

Scott said McAuliffe's action helps reverse a vestige of the discriminatory restrictions - including poll taxes and literacy tests - that date to the state constitution implemented in 1902. Democrats ran state government when that version of the state constitution was implemented.

Roanoke Free Press| Reps. James Clyburn and Bobby Scott today on voting rights restoration for felons<http://www.roanokefreepress.com/reps-james-clyburn-and-bobby-scott-today-on-voting-rights-restoration-for-felons/>

On a conference call today Assistant Democratic Leader Congressman James Clyburn who represents South Carolina's 6th congressional district and Virginia's 3rd district representative, Congressman Bobby Scott answered questions regarding Gov. Terry McAuliffe's move to restore voting rights to 206,000 felons.

[SigDems]<http://www.democrats.org/>Deshundra Jefferson, Southern Regional Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
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