PENIAMINA IN SELMA: 'JOHN LEWIS DIDN'T BLEED SO WE COULD BUILD NEW BARRIERS'
Lead Paragraph: Paletuatoa Peniamina today stood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and declared that the fight for voting rights is not over, pledging to sign the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
Key Quotes:
"They crossed this bridge for one reason. The right to vote. John Lewis didn't bleed so we could build new barriers. He bled so we could tear them down."
"The SAVE Act is a new poll tax. A new literacy test. A new way to silence our voices. I'll stop it."
"I'll sign the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. I'll restore the protections that were gutted. The dream is not dead."