Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones Receives Backbone Award
Community leaders in Cleveland, Ohio, honored Congressperson Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) Wednesday afternoon with a Backbone Award. The Honorable Tubbs Jones received the Backbone Award for her courageous challenge to force a highly unusual House and Senate debate in January on the certification of Ohio's presidential electors.
"Stephanie Tubbs Jones represents a group of Congresspeople who have recognized that our elections do not belong to the candidates — they belong to the people"
— Bill Moyer Backbone Campaign |
Tubbs Jones is currently sponsoring the common-sense "Count Every Vote Act" (co-sponsored in the Senate by Barbara Boxer and Hillary Rodham Clinton), which addresses the current crisis of confidence in our electoral system through comprehensive election reform such as: requiring a voter verified paper ballot, requiring the Federal Election Assistance Commission to issue standards that ensure uniform access to voting machines, designating Election Day a federal holiday, and much more.
"Stephanie Tubbs Jones represents a group of Congresspeople who have recognized that our elections do not belong to the candidates — they belong to the people," says The Backbone Campaign's Executive Director, Bill Moyer. "Premature concessions, unequal access to an non-verifiable ballot, and political operatives supervising elections and vote counting have severely damaged public confidence in this most basic ritual of our democracy."
The Greater Cleveland Voter Coalition, the Cleveland AFL-CIO Federation of Labor and the NAACP National Voter Fund sponsored the award ceremony. Tubbs Jones joins such previous Backbone Award recipients as Howard Dean and Congresspersons Dennis Kucinich, Cynthia McKinney, Bernie Sanders, and others.
The Backbone Award is presented to courageous elected officials in recognition of their willingness to take principled progressive stands at politically lonely moments.
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