Rep. Mia Jones Mulls Voter Suppression Concerns

Politic365 chatted with Rep. Mia Jones, Chair of the Florida Legislative Black Caucus (FLBC) on the morning of the launch of the “State of Black Florida” Conference which kicked off earlier in the week.

This year’s theme centered around unified action from various Florida statewide and national institutions to rally around a series of new laws passed in the state that could suppress Black voter turnout. With Florida being  a pivotal swing state, Jones told Politic365 that black legislators and other professional and civic groups have been undertaking extraordinary efforts to ensure the Black electorate is aware of the new rules.

Hear more about the rally planned this week at the State House and other initiatives to protect the black vote.

Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt represents small, women, and minority owned business and technology companies at The Ghatt Law Group LLC, the nations’ first communications law firm owned by women and minorities. She's won landmark cases on behalf of her clients which include national civil rights and public interest organizations. In addition to actively authoring several blogs, being a radio show host and sitting on the boards of three non-profits, she is a tech junkie who has been developing online web content since the very early years of the Internet, 1991 to be precise! Follow her on Twitter at @Jenebaspeaks, on her blog, Jenebaspeaks, which covers the intersection of politics and technology or on her Politics of Raising Children blog at The Washington Times Communities section.

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