Here's six of the twelve senators who did not vote yes anti lynching bill

[charlyvi]

Shelby
Alexander
Cornyn
Hutchison
Cochran
Lott
http://atrios.blogspot.com/

[beam me up scottie]

1. Lott.

What a surprise.

[marmar]

14. I know, absolutely shocking!

He was probably hoping for a Senate apology to Beckwith or Ray.

[Richardo]

2. So proud to have my two Texas senators there. /sarcasm

Who are the other six?

[charlyvi]

4. don't know yet. n/t

[WolverineDG]

5. if helmet hair is running for gov next year

you'd think she'd be smarter than that....cornyn's an idiot anyway, so it's not news he didn't sign it.

dg

[acmejack]

9. On the bright side they just handed us a BIG stick

And I for one, will be delighted to hit them over the head with it every time I can! Go ahead and run for for Governor, KBH and good luck with the minority vote...

[hobbit709]

12. Ah yes!

Our "Fearless Leaders' in (in)action.

[0007]

18. Please call 'em and tell 'em how you feel! I did.

[maxrandb]

3. I'm Shocked!!!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but all of these are Pugs, right?

You mean the party that is "not" 87% white, did not have higher support for lynching??? :sarcasm:

Keep speaking the truth Dr. Dean. I for one have your back.

[liberalitch]

7. Yes, but they're an INCLUSIVE party (damn it)

[Tommymac]

35. Yep. Bigots included. nt

[moondust]

6. Commit them to slavery.

Let them learn the hard way.

[atommom]

8. Oops, never mind.

[Tsiyu]

10. Can we lynch THEM?

If they think it was such a good idea to have lynchings for crimes, maybe we should lynch them for trying to destroy America and the Constitution?

[Zynx]

25. Hi Agent Mike!

:hi:

[Tsiyu]

37. Aw, now why'd you have to call his attention

to MY stinkin' post?

Hey, Mike. Nothing going on here...move along....

[Toby109]

11. All Southerners so far.

What a big surprise. I guess they don't want to piss off all their racist constituents.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. well of course Lott is one ...he loved Strom

[kevinmc]

15. I thought there was 20 total

[reality based]

16. Texas and Mississippi

have a lot of work to do.

[Call me Deacon Blues]

17. I'm embarrassed by Alexander

Who, in a previous existance, used to be a moderate. I intend to work like hell to see that this racist is not re-elected.

[GiovanniC]

19. Jesus, How the Fuck Much Moral Resolve Do You Need

to admit that, okay, MAYBE it's not such a great thing to rustle up a negro and hang him by a short rope on a tall branch?

It seems like anybody this side of Hitler on the "evil" scale would be able to see that, but apparently not these assholes.

[Terran]

20. I'm relieved to see both of Missouri's senators on the co-sponsor list

Both of them being repubs (Talent and Bond), I wasn't so sure they'd know what the right thing to do was...

[Coexist]

21. Kerry: "it's a statement in itself that there are not 100 signatures"

"it's a statement in itself that there is not an upordownvote".

Not the slap I would have liked, but there is time to get louder. This is UNACCEPTABLE. In this country, at this time, Senators should have gone out of their way to make sure this was signed. I don't care if they are R or D - these 12 Senators need to be (metaphorically) lynched for this shame.

(on edit) these should, for now on, be referred to as Pro-Lynching Senators.

[onenote]

22. more accurate: they didn't co-sponsor

To be completely accurate, there were 20 or 21 (I've seen different numbers) Senators who did not sign on to the Resolution as co-sponsors. I think that's indefensible, but technically its not correct to say that they didn't "vote yes". The vote was taken by voice and thus there are no recorded yes or no votes.

onenote

[TexasLinda]

29. KBH's office refuses to say how she voted

They're using the same cop out - "it's a voice vote and there are no recorded yes or no votes, however the senator does not condone lynching". Why won't the senator tell her constituants how she voted on this issue?

[onenote]

23. delete: dupe

[burythehatchet]

24. I wonder if Dr. Dean made his comments with the

knowledge of this vote coming up. That would be too friggin brilliant.

[CAcyclist]

31. I believe it was the opening gambit.

To get the Republicans in a defensive mode so they wouldn't oppose this. It was shocking to me that it took so many times for this to pass.

[peacetalksforall]

26. It wasn't an anti-lynching bill, was it - I thought it was an apology bill

I thought those who voted NO weren't apologizing.

Either way...a vote no translates to contempt for the Constitution. But, we already knew that.

We have vigilantes on the border. We have tormentors and torturere of human beings in the military, white house, and corporations. We have Senators who won't apologize. We have recists who drag humans behind a car.

It all parallels our un-glorious part of our past. So which American supremeist want to make the claim that the U.S. is SUPERIOR. SUPERIOR to whom? We can't make that claim.

Our country is full of so-called christians who don't practice. It's all pretend. Smoke and mirrors.

We are as phoney. We are phonies.

[DemoTex]

27. Hutchison & Cornyn: Texas lynching on their watch .. June 7, 1998.

Hutchison was a US Senator from Texas. Cornyn was Texas Attorney General. George W. Bu$h was Texas Governor. James Byrd was a man of color in Jasper, Texas (notoriously conservative and racist east Texas).

A year later, James Byrd's daughter, Francis Mullins, met with Texas Governor George Bu$h to plead with him to replace the watered-down 1993 Texas hate crimes law with effective new legislation:

Byrd's 29-year-old daughter, Renee Mullins, met with Bush on May 6 in his office. Accompanying her were a cousin, Darrell Verrett; state Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston; and a gay rights lobbyist.
Mullins later described the meeting to Salon's Jake Tapper: "I went in there pleading to him. I said that if he helped me move it along I would feel that he hadn't died in vain ... Thompson said, 'Gov. Bush, what Renee's trying to say is, Would you help her pass the bill?' And he said, 'No.' Just like that.

"He had a nonchalant attitude, like he wanted to hurry up and get out of there. It was cold in that room."

http://www.balloon-juice.com/archives/002972.html

http://www.texasnaacp.org/jasper.htm

http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/jun1998/byrd-j13.shtml

[RaleighNCDUer]

36. This story, and the story of Karla Faye Tucker, were what informed

me that * was not the moderate, compassionate conservative that he was claiming to be before the 2000 election.

He's done nothing in the six years since to indicate otherwise.

[hughee99]

38. Just wondering...

It looks like at least one person, and possibly more than one received the death penalty for what they did to Byrd, and this was under the old "ineffective" legislation. What would the new legislation have changed?

[Name removed]

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[Tim4319]

42. I remember hearing about the meeting.

I was telling people I worked with about it, and no one I spoke with heard about the meeting.


He is cold and heartless!!!!!

[meg]

28. Here's contact info for Cornyn and Hutchison and others

Cornyn, John- (R - TX) Class II
517 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: link

Hutchison, Kay- (R - TX) Class I
284 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: link

for others - link


add on edit: Hutchison will bullshit that there was a voice vote. I said there were only 14 who didn't sponsor the resolution and she was one. DON'T LET HER BULLSHIT YOU!!! (I know you wouldn't.)

[Coexist]

30. kick

[berni_mccoy]

32. Stuff this away and save it for their re-election bid.

They just hosed themselves.

[AX10]

33. Lott and Cochran..

ooooooooo...from MISSISIPPI!

:eyes:

Gee, Zell, I don't think that those are stereotypes, but FACT.

[Maclilly]

34. I fliped to faux last night and puppy eyes

Hume was on talking about this issue. He had a token black republican on saying how this bill is just an excuse for blacks to feel or portray themselves like victims. I am not kidding. And the photographer who compiled the book about lynching that motivated this bill is a victim who can only identify himself as a poor black person, look what they did to us. On and on. I am not kidding. This guy was serious saying that this is a stupid waste of tax payer money for them to do this. What an asshole. This will be the repub excuse too when they are up for reelection. Mark my words.

[Up2Late]

40. We have the count as 18 who did not sign on, with 3 Democrats too

This list is the difference between the 79 sponsors/cosponsors of the apology (at <http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SE00039:@@@P> ) and the list of all 100 Senators (at <http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm> ).

R-AK Murkowski, Lisa
R-AL Shelby, Richard
R-AZ Kyl, Jon

R-IA Grassley, Chuck
R-ID Crapo, Michael
R-MS Cochran, Thad

R-MS Lott, Trent
R-NH Gregg, Judd
R-NH Sununu, John

R-OH Voinovich, George
R-OR Smith, Gordon
R-TN Alexander, Lamar

R-TX Cornyn, John
R-TX Hutchison, Kay
R-UT Bennett, Robert

R-UT Hatch, Orrin
R-WY Enzi, Michael
R-WY Thomas, Craig

D-ND Conrad, Kent
D-NM Bingaman, Jeff
D-RI Reed, Jack

Here's our thread:
<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1853771#1853883>

[Capitalists Rule]

41. The bill passed by Unanimous Consent

which means every senator present voted "Yes". So why are you spreading this misinformation?

[MGKrebs]

43. Clarification...

it was a voice vote, unanimous consent. The names y'all are talking about are the ones who failed to co-sponsor the resolution. There were something like 80 co-sponsors.