re: #44 Belafon

“But Biden’s not talking about what’s in the infrastructure bill.”

Today, a friend and I took our weekly hour walk through the neighborhood and chatted as usual about all types of issues, including politics. What upsets her most of all is that voting rights are not #1 on the agenda — more important than BBB. She feels that the failure to make this the sole priority will lead to disaster in 2022 - that BBB can be deferred but voting cannot. Obviously, since BBB doesn’t require any changes to Senate procedures to get adopted, it should be a simpler task. Of course both BBB and voting rights require the agreement of Manchin and Sinema, and they both seem locked in against changes to the filibuster. I cannot really disagree with her concern, because if we don’t deal with voting, we will have decades in the wilderness with GOP voter suppression, disenfranchisement, and gerrymandering.