Very cool news. Now all 3 Democratic Presidential Candidates are supporters of 90 for 90. Of course they are! Democrats are the only party supporting voter registration the last time I looked.
In case you don’t know what 90 for90 is, let me fill you in. It’s a voter advocacy group that was started in honor of Dr. William Ferguson Reid Sr., who was the first black man elected to the Virginia legislature.
He turned 90 this year and his friends asked him if he wanted to have a birthday party. He said no, he’d really rather register voters. He is one of the coolest old dudes I know. He was registering voters and running for office when there were poll taxes and literacy tests. (And if you think a literacy test was to test literacy, think again. I’ve taken the test and don’t see how anyone could have passed it let alone passed it in the 10 minutes that was allowed.)
So far in Virginia they have registered over 150,000 new voters and December hasn’t been counted yet. The goal is 250,000. What if every state could add to the voter rolls in huge numbers? Dr. Reid says if you register enough voters, they vote for Democrats and Democrats win. I say, when Democrats win, America wins!
So Hillary Clinton has joined and so can you. I bet everyone on Daily Kos supports voter registration. If you are the administrator of a group here on Daily Kos join your group onto 90 for 90, they have a separate section just for Daily Kos groups. (They love us!) Send the link to your group and your logo if you have one.
If you are a member of Kos Katalogue or own a business join onto the business section of 90 for 90, its good, free advertisement. Send your logo, website, facebook page, twitter, whatever.
If you’re an activist there a page for that too. Send a head shot (I tried sending in my picture of my feet, it didn’t fly) and all your contact info, including your You Tube page if you have one.
There is also a section for artists, as in musicians and such, who support registering voters. Join on it.
There is a 90for90 facebook page that has 623 “likes”. Let’s freep that shall we? I want to see it get to 1000.
I am SO excited!! I sense, I smell, I can taste, UNITY in the air.
“The vote unlocks many doors.” Dr. William Ferguson Reid