Norton on Voting Rights to Open Tuesday Convention with a Call to
Match that Day's "Renewing America's Promise" Theme

August 25, 2008

Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Norton will be the lead-off speaker tomorrow, Tuesday, Aug. 26, at 5:14 p.m. EDT in Denver. Norton's D.C. voting rights remarks make her the appropriate speaker to begin the convention on Tuesday, when the theme is "Renewing America's Promise." Norton will focus on progress made this session, with a bill close to actual passage. She will speak to the necessity to complete the promise the nation's founders made to Americans when leaders of the country fought a war to get the vote for residents of the new nation.