Ross Kemp Quotes
It only takes around 60 seconds to cast your vote in the polling station. 60 seconds to protect the economy, 60 seconds to protect your jobs, 60 seconds to protect the services your family relies on. A lot is at stake during those 60 seconds.
Kemp, Ross. "Labour Party Election Broadcast." The Labour Party, 4 May 2015.
In the bizarre situation of South African Apartheid, he had obtained a segregated education, become a lawyer, and became a judge and then the chief justice of the neighboring state of Namibia. However, he had never been able to vote.
He was the youngest elected official of Moldova and one of the youngest elected official in the world. He was 23 at the time of the interview.
His opponent was Al Gore Sr. whose wife came up with the idea of placing signs underneath the McKeller signs saying, “Think Some More and Vote For Gore!”
Henry Wheeler Shaw. Billings is not the originator of this adage, but seems to be recalling it. See William Porcher Miles {607439}
At the time less than 10% of the Southern Blacks were allowed to vote. The result was that Southern segregationists were elected to Congress even in a state like Mississippi which had a majority Black population, The Southern segregationist bloc was large enough that with a few very conservative Republicans, they formed a coalition could block any civil rights legislation including voting rights reform,
There are very few places in America where a public official could get away with statements like this one.
Ross James Kemp is an English actor, author, presenter and investigative journalist. He rose to prominence in the role of Grant Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Since 2004, Kemp has received international recognition as a journalist for the BAFTA Award-winning documentary series Ross Kemp on Gangs.
