Jess Brown Quotes
You have those rare occasions when an issue gets a lot of publicity and coverage and that's when most legislators would vote in accordance with the mainstream views back home. But those are rare occasions. On most issues and most bills, the level of public concern and understanding is, frankly, very low. And when that goes down, the amount of power and influence lobbyists have in that (Statehouse) goes up. That is true on most issues. 
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Those voters have all now gone to the graveyard, so all the African-American voters in the last two generations have grown to see the Democratic Party as the party of civil rights and social programs. For those reasons they have voted in large numbers for the Democratic nominees for public office.
- Jess Brown
