Lying On Lynching Vote - More From Kos With Updated List (16 Senators)

[WillyT]

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This is getting very interesting. I've gotten feedback from a number of friends and contacts who have called the Senate offices of the members who did NOT co-sponsor the anti-lynching resolution. They're lying to you folks, well, lying in the "intentionally misleading" way.
Here's what they're saying:


1.) My boss couldn't vote for the resolution because he was out of town last night.

2.) My boss couldn't vote for the resolution because it was a voice vote - meaning, there was no recorded vote of who was for it or against it - it was simple a "all those in favor say 'aye', all those opposed say 'no'" kind of vote. And no one keeps a written record of the ayes and nos.

3.) What do you mean my boss didn't support the resolution, it passed unanimously?!

All of those are cute, and they're also intentionally meant to mislead you.

The vote last night was a voice vote. That means all you need is one guy in the Senate chamber to have it pass (as I understand it, there were some 6 Senators or so there last night). That one guy says something about asking unanimous consent that SRes39 (the resolution) be agreed to. The presiding chair says "all those in favor say aye, all those opposed say no, the ayes appear to have it, the ayes do have it." And bam, it's done. All you need is one Senator sitting there saying aye and it's "unanimous."

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Link: http://dailykos.com/

If any of these freaks are up for re-election, or an ambassadorship, or Supreme Court nomination... This should be blown up in their faces!!!

:nuke:

Last List (I hope):

Aravosis also has the final Wall of Shame list:

Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Robert Bennett (R-UT)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Michael Crapo (R-ID)
Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Trent Lott (R-MS)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Richard Shelby (R-AL)
John Sununu (R-NH)
Craig Thomas (R-WY)
George Voinovich (R-OH)

They can still co-sponsor the legislation. So what are they waiting for?

Good question...

:evilgrin:

[beam me up scottie]

1. Voinovich ? nt

[Beetwasher]

2. Apparently Conrad WILL Be Co-Sponsoring

Thankfully, the wall of shame will be all repub and I sincerely hope the Dems proceed to clobber the fuck out of them w/ this.

[WillyT]

3. MEANWHILE... AT ABC NEWS !!! - (Great Quote!!!)

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Today's Senate apology had its own share of trouble getting to the floor. Among the senators who declined to co-sponsor the resolution were Mississippi Sens. Trent Lott and Thad Cochran, both Republicans. Cochran said he would not vote against it, but would not be present to vote for it.

Supporters expressed their outrage at the senators who would not sign on as co-sponsors. "America is home of the brave but I'm afraid there may be a few cowards who have to cower to their very narrow-minded and backward, hateful constituency," said Janet Cohen, who is the descendant of a lynching victim in Kentucky. Her husband, former Defense Secretary William Cohen, was also a former Republican senator.

Cohen has been pushing for a roll-call vote so the names of the holdout senators will be known to the public. Frist declined her request.

"They're hiding out," said Cohen, "and it's reminiscent of a pattern of hiding out under a hood, in the night, riding past, scaring people."

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Link: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/print?id=845713

Tell it like it is Ms. Cohen!!!

:nuke:

[Bluebear]

4. EXCELLENT quote, Janet!

[applegrove]

5. The repuke 'ties that bind' are different than ours. That is for sure.

The 'ties that bind' the country in the Repukes minds - are obviously not the ones that 'get us all together' in shared history.

Obviously they are pandering.

I'm still waiting for Rice or Powell to start the campaign for that great monument to black history on the mall. One where a white man sits on a chair 'in all his wisdom' will not do.

Where is the monument to slavery and about the lynching & segregation experience of African Americans. Does it exist?