This Lawmaker Lost His Job Over Georgia's New Election Law. Here's His Story.

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🗓️ 30 April 2021

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Georgia state Rep. Barry Fleming lost his job over the state's recently passed election reform legislation. The Hancock County Board of Commissioners voted 4-0 to ask Fleming to resign as county attorney "after pressure from citizens opposed to his work on proposed voting law changes," Georgia Public Broadcasting reported March 10. Critics of Georgia's new law say it hampers voting rights, but Fleming, R-Harlem, argues that it does just the opposite. “It makes it easier to vote in Georgia,” Fleming says, adding: In Georgia, we actually expanded the days to early vote. There's now or can be an extra 36 hours at least of early voting in Georgia. We made it very simple when it comes to absentee ballots. You still need no excuse to vote absentee in Georgia, and all you have to do is write down your driver's license number. ... So in Georgia we think going forward it will be easier to vote, but hopefully harder to cheat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, April 30th.
0:09.5	I'm Doug Blair.
0:10.8	And I'm Ruta DelJudus.
0:12.6	Georgia State Representative Barry Fleming lost his job over the election reform bill
0:17.5	Georgia Just Past.
0:19.4	He joins me on the Daily Signal Podcast to share his story.
0:22.8	And don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or
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0:30.4	Now, onto our top news.
0:40.6	Vice President Kamala Harris issued a grise with Republican Senator Tim Scott that America
0:45.6	isn't a racist country, but says the country has to speak the truth on racism.
0:50.8	Here is her exchange with George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America.
0:54.8	Senator Tim Scott said last night that America is not a racist country.
0:58.0	Do you agree with that?
0:59.4	And what do you make of his warning against fighting discrimination with more discrimination?
1:04.8	I believe that we need to, well, first of all, no, I don't think America is a racist
1:09.8	country, but we also do have to speak truth about the history of racism in our country,
1:14.2	and its existence today.
1:16.4	And I applaud the President for always having the ability and the courage, frankly, to speak
1:22.9	the truth about it.
1:23.9	He spoke what we know from the intelligence community, one of the greatest threats to
1:27.9	our national security as domestic terrorism manifested by white supremacist.
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