From Congressman Cleaver's email newsletter:
Congressman Cleaver has a keen sensibility of urban issues, and urban residents are the most likely to be affected. He served as mayor of Kansas City until term limits removed him, not voters. He sails to victory in every election he stands for. He is well loved because he is a good representative of the people he is consistently elected to serve. We name streets after him while he is alive, for crying out loud.Missouri Congressmen Wm. Lacy Clay of St. Louis and Emanuel Cleaver of Kansas
City, added their voices in support of a lawsuit filed yesterday in Cole County
Circuit Court that would block the implementation of Missouri's new photo ID
voting law. The lawsuit, which was filed by several elderly and disabled voters,
alleges that the new law would impose undue hardships on seniors, women,
minorities and lower income voters who are less likely to have driver's
licenses. It also challenges the constitutionality of the new law because voters
who currently lack a government-issued photo ID would be forced to incur out of
pocket expenses to obtain a birth certificate, in order to prove citizenship.
"In the United States of America we ought to be about encouraging more people to
vote as opposed to enacting laws that discourage voters from exercising their
fundamental right. Our nation, throughout its history, has constantly moved to
include more people in the democratic process. We have included
African-Americans, women and those 18 and older, always choosing to amend our
Constitution to have more citizens involved in our nation's future, not less,"
said Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, II.
Therefore it is a surprise to no one that he runs unopposed in the primary on Tuesday, and the Republicans have not even offered a sacrificial lamb to stand against him in November, to the best of my knowledge and the Metro Area Voters Guide published by the Kansas City Star last Thursday.
