Democrat Ken Spaulding criticizes Roy Cooper for King Day email about voting rights
Ken Spaulding of Durham, a Democrat running for governor, criticized Democratic opponent Attorney General Roy Cooper for distributing an email Monday outlining Cooper’s support for voting rights and quoting the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Cooper’s office will be fighting a voting-rights lawsuit in federal court next week in Winston-Salem, Spaulding said.
Monday was the national holiday honoring King, who was assassinated in April 1968.
“You do not dishonor the African American community and other communities by being in court fighting against our right to vote,” Spaulding told about 35 people Tuesday at a meeting of the Ministers Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity at Emmanuel Baptist Church. “Those rights are important to us.”
Morgan Jackson, a spokesman for Cooper, responded on Wednesday to Spaulding's criticism: “It is the duty under the law for the attorney general's office to defend the state and state agencies when they get sued Roy Cooper strongly opposes these new voting laws, and he will work now and as Governor to make it easier for people to register and vote."
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