Over a dozen US Senators refuse to sign on to anti-lynching resolution

[carpe diem]

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/06/over-dozen-us-senators-refuse-to-sign.html
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WHO ARE THE TWELVE?
WHO ARE THE TWELVE?
WHO ARE THE TWELVE?
WHO ARE THE TWELVE?

This SHOULD be a rallying cry for the Dems. The party needs to make hay out of this...rather than enabling it. Every speech Howard Dean gives, he should ask this question. It should be in our avatars. When we send emails, it ought to be part of our signature line.

When Republicans go into black communities this ought to be the first, last and every question in between. Like Dean said about support of the Voting Rights Act, this should also be a litmus test for Black support. What was your position on the anti-lynching legislation? How did YOU vote? WHO ARE THE TWELVE that voted against it?

WHO ARE THE TWELVE?
WHO ARE THE TWELVE?
WHO ARE THE TWELVE?
WHO ARE THE TWELVE?
WHO ARE THE TWELVE?

[TheMightyFavog]

1. Reccomended!

Nominate this thread!

[getmeouttahere]

2. Agreed....

Who are the twelve??? Actually, another good question would be "why are we just now introducing anti-lynching legislation?

[Kraklen]

3. Question?

Are they refusing or are they absent?

[carpe diem]

8. some of the senators don't want to offend the good ole boys back home

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/06/over-dozen-us-senators-refuse-to-sign.html

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..... They're apparently holding the vote late tonight so they won't have to have a real roll-call vote (i.e., individual Senators won't have to vote up or down). The reason? So they can hide the 12 or so Senators who apparently think it's bad politics back home to sign onto a resolution that apologizes for not passing anti-lynching legislation sooner. Apparently, southern Senators fillibustered efforts to pass such legislation for years.

[mikelewis]

4. So it's still not illegal to lynch someone in the South?

You can't bring toenail clippers on a plane but lynchin some negro is acceptable? Yep... moving to Europe is beginning to sound better and better.

[brooklynite]

5. Isn't the right to a rollcall vote fairly absolute?

I thought it only required one Senator objecting to block a voice vote. Why can't one (D) Senator call for one?

[Pirate Smile]

7. Someone needs to call for a roll call vote.

[patrice]

6. This is very hard to understand.

What possible reason could they have NOT to support the resolution? Seems like not doing so hurts them all of the way around; there's no benefit in it. WTF?

on edit: On second thought, maybe I get it, "The South Rises Again" -States' Rights.

[salin]

9. I can't believe the items together - when did I wake up in a different

country?

Lets see... some state leader of the Christian Coalition says that gays should wear warning labels...


Some lady - with lots of support - promotes a flag for a "United States - Christian Nation"

And some senators think that lynching should be okay?

Wtf?

[brettdale]

10. Kick

Kick

[glitch]

11. Twelve Hate-filled Men

roast in hell guys.

[AirAmFan]

12. A list of 39 cosponsorship holdouts (6 D, 33 R) as of last Thurs

is at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3851625&mesg_id=3851948 .

The Senate's own list of sponsors and cosponsors (numbering 61 as of Thursday and still at 61 tonight) is at http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SE00039:@@@P .

All but six still not on board are Republicans, mainly from the deep South and from Western states with relatively few African-Americans. The shockers: Neither of Ohio's Republican Senators had cosponsored, nor had Chafee, Grassley, Warner, Wyden, or Reed.

Thus the Republicans have passed up a golden opportunity to give "left cover" to their campaign against the filibuster.

[biscotti]

13. To me these horrible bigots

have to be exposed. They deserves nothing but shame.

How ironic, on the day the Killen KKK trial starts in Mississippi.

[TacticalPeek]

14. Who are these cowardly assholes?

"But what I want to talk about right now is the living death - that we have right among our midst, not only in the state of Mississippi, but throughout the nation.

Those are the people who don't care.

Those who do care, but don't have the guts enough to stand up for it.

And those people who are busy up in Washington and other places, using my freedom, and my life, to play politics with."



- David Dennis, 1964 at James Chaney's funeral, talking about today.

[nonny]

15. WHO ARE THE TWELVE?

I want to see their names!