Page 2 - aruba-today-20220118

A2 UP FRONT
Tuesday 18 January 2022

Continued from Front who was elected in 1985, before deciding not to shelter and run a plumbing to find compromise on is-
Earle-Sears takes over the was the first. seek reelection. After mov- and electrical supply com- sues ranging from educa-
role from previous Lt. Gov. A staunch conservative ing, she unsuccessfully pany. Earle-Sears used the tion to public safety to the
Justin Fairfax, who did not who speaks frequently challenged U.S. Rep. Bob- last name Sears during her state's spending plan.
seek reelection and in- about her Christian faith, by Scott in a race The As- campaign. Chris Saxman, Youngkin, a political new-
stead unsuccessfully ran Earle-Sears has made his- sociated Press described her transition director, said comer and former private
for the Democratic nomi- tory as a woman in politics at the time as "a cam- Earle-Sears is her prefer- equity executive, was
nation for governor. before. paign of raw invective." ence moving forward. scheduled to give his first
A Marine veteran who im- She got her start in elected She went on to serve on Monday marked the fourth address to lawmakers later
migrated to the United office in 2001 when she the State Board of Educa- day of this year's 60-day Monday afternoon.
States from Jamaica as a stunned both parties by tion and more recently as legislative session. Most Monday also marked a
child, Earle-Sears defeat- defeating a 10-term Dem- the national chair of an legislation is continuing to traditional day of advoca-
ed Democrat Hala Ayala ocrat in an overwhelming- organization dedicated make its way through the cy at the Capitol. The Mar-
last year to become only ly blue district to become to reelecting former Presi- subcommittee and com- tin Luther King Jr. holiday
the second woman in Vir- the first Black Republican dent Donald Trump. She's mittee process. Because has long offered a chance
ginia's long history to serve woman elected to the also led a men's prison of the split party control for Virginia residents, of-
in a statewide office. Attor- House of Delegates. ministry, served as direc- of the General Assembly, ten with a day off work, to
ney Gen. Mary Sue Terry, She served just one term tor of a women's homeless lawmakers will be forced meet with lawmakers.q

On MLK Day, Biden says Americans must commit to King's work

ing to pass voting rights leg- many as 55 million Ameri- his name you have to stand
islation, even as 19 Repub- cans to vote ... that is one up for voting rights, you
lican-led states have made out of six people in our have to stand up on behalf
it harder to vote in response country." of the poor and the op-
to former President Donald "We know that this assault pressed and the disenfran-
Trump's false claims about on our freedom to vote will chised."
election-rigging. be felt by every American, King, who delivered his
"You were successful with in every community, in ev- historic "I Have a Dream"
infrastructure, which is a ery political party," she said. speech while leading the
great thing -- but we need Sen. Tim Scott of South 1963 March on Washing-
you to use that same ener- Carolina, the Senate's only ton and was awarded the
gy to ensure that all Ameri- Black Republican, coun- Nobel Peace Prize in 1964,
cans have the same unen- tered with a series of King considered racial equality
cumbered right to vote," Day-themed videos he inseparable from alleviat-
Martin Luther King III said. said would emphasize posi- ing poverty and stopping
Senate Republicans re- tive developments on civil war. His insistence on non-
By JEFF MARTIN and MI- cities and the annual Mar- main unified in opposition rights. Scott sidestepped violent protest continues
CHAEL WARREN undefined tin Luther King Jr. service at to the Democrats' voting criticism about GOP ac- to influence activists push-
ATLANTA (AP) — Americans the slain civil rights leader's bills. Biden described their tions and accused Demo- ing for civil rights and social
must commit to the unfin- Ebenezer Baptist Church stonewalling as part of "a crats of labeling his party change.
ished work of Martin Luther in Atlanta, where U.S. Sen. true attack on our democ- members as racists. The U.S. economy "has nev-
King Jr., delivering jobs and Raphael Warnock is the racy, from the Jan. 6 insur- "To compare or conflate er worked fairly for Black
justice and protecting "the senior pastor. Pews have rection to the onslaught people who oppose his po- Americans — or, really, for
sacred right to vote, a right been packed by politicians of Republican anti-vot- sitions as being racists and any American of color,"
from which all other rights in past years, but given the ing laws in an number of traitors to the country is not Treasury Secretary Janet
flow," President Joe Biden pandemic, many offered states." only insulting and infuriat- Yellen said in a speech
said Monday. pre-recorded speeches in- "It's no longer just about ing, it's dead wrong," Scott delivered Monday, one
Martin Luther King Day is stead. who gets to vote. It's about told The Associated Press. of many by national lead-
a moment when a mirror This holiday marks what who gets to count the vote. Warnock, now running for ers acknowledging unmet
is held up to America, the would have been the 93rd And whether your vote reelection as Georgia's needs for racial equality on
president said in a video birthday of the Rev. Martin counts at all. It's about two first Black senator, said in Martin Luther King Day.
address. Luther King Jr., who was just insidious things: voter sup- his speech to the sparse Yellen referred to King's fa-
"It's time for every elected 39 when he was assassi- pression and election sub- crowd at Ebenezer that mous speech in remarks she
official in America to make nated in 1968 while helping version," Biden said. "everybody loves Dr. King, recorded for delivery at the
it clear where they stand," sanitation workers strike for Vice President Kamala they just don't always love Rev. Al Sharpton's National
Biden said. "It's time for better pay and workplace Harris sent a to the Ebene- what he represents." Action Network breakfast
every American to stand safety in Memphis, Tennes- zer service, saying that "in "Let the word go forth, you in Washington, noting the
up. Speak out, be heard. see. Georgia and across our can not remember Dr. King financial metaphor he
Where do you stand?" King's eldest son criticized nation, anti-voter laws are and dismember his legacy used when describing the
Major holiday events in- Biden and Congress as a being passed that could at the same time," War- founding fathers' promises
cluded marches in several whole on Monday for fail- make it more difficult for as nock said. "If you will speak of equality.q