Reply #20: It looks like Allen is trying to clean up his ugly past [View All]

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Allen went with John Lewis to Selma last year. This was at the end of a story in the Atlanta Constitutin:

Sen. George Allen (R-Va.), said he's among those changed by the experience.

Allen, who once decorated his law office with a Confederate flag and noose and, as governor of Virginia, signed a "Confederate Heritage Month" proclamation while dubbing the NAACP an "extremist group," returned from a trip to the bridge with Lewis last year and introduced legislation that essentially apologized for lynchings.

That journey, said the senator — who is a co-chair of this year's tour — "will guide many of the decisions that I have yet to make."

And then he did this:

Senators Introduce Lynching Apology
( The New York Times ) 223 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 13 , Column 1

ABSTRACT - Sen George Allen, Virginia Republican accused in past of insensitivity on race issues, introduces bill to apologize officially for Senate's role in blocking antilynching legislation through decades of killings across South; he and Sen Mary L Landrieu, Louisiana Democrat, are co-sponsors of bill (S)


Lots of good info on his disgusting past here:

http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2005/05/george_allens_h.html