Getty Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is encouraging Americans to vote.
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is encouraging Americans to vote. His eagerness to spread the message may have led to this bizarre tweet.
Kerr apparently intended to send out a Washington Post op-ed from 18-year-old Julia Savoca Gibson, who encouraged her fellow young people to vote with the November 6 midterm elections looming. Kerr’s account shared the actual story minutes later.
Shortly before sending the initial tweet, Kerr’s account retweeted a post from Matt Deitsch, co-founder of March for Our Lives. In response to Texas senator John Cornyn’s tweet of remembrance for the 26 lives lost in last year’s mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Deitsch criticized Cornyn for his accepting funds from the National Rifle Association.
Kerr, Warriors Encourage Voting
Kerr, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump and an advocate for gun control, wore a shirt that said “Vote for Our Lives” at the podium on Friday after a victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.
During the postgame presser, he spoke of the importance of voting.
“If you can help create momentum that comes with mass voting, that’s how you create change,” Kerr said, according to The Mercury News. “It’s not that your one vote is necessarily going to swing an election, but it’s the concept of voting and getting the people that you know to vote. Then all of a sudden, the numbers add up to where you can make a difference.”
During the team’s season opener, the Warriors released a PSA urging Americans to vote. Elsa Collins, wife of Warriors assistant coach Jarron Collins, serves on the athlete advisory council for Rock the Vote.
“Steve does a pretty good job of presenting what the landscape looks like,” Collins said, per The Mercury News. “That’s key because when you present what the landscape looks like, you start to recognize the entry points to the landscape all start with your participation. A lot of times your participation and your voice is your vote.”
Kevin Durant Critical of Donald Trump
According to the Warriors and Rock the Vote, the team registered seven players, two assistants, and a dozen staffers to vote.
Star forward Kevin Durant revealed why he’s voting for the first time since 2008.
“Trump is in office,” the 2014 MVP said, per The Mercury News. “Just the tone around the presidency and around that administration, you can tell the majority of Americans don’t really side with Donald Trump. Just his policies, the way he is with his temperament and just everything he’s about is so divisive. Everything he’s doing is contrived. He’s doing it for the cameras, doing it for the fame and just to get a rise out of people. That’s cool if you want to be an entertainer on TV or a comedian. But to do that as a president? That’s the biggest leadership position in the world. We need somebody who put policies in place that give hope to kids coming up in communities that don’t feel like they have a voice.”