Bury Me Broken

Updated List of Pro Lynching Senators

From AmericaBlog, this is the updated list of senators refusing to cosponsor the Anti-Lynching Bill:

Senator Landrieu, who sponsored the resolution, has a list of the cosponsors AND "supporters" up on her site. Interestingly, and confusingly, she lists other Senators who "support" the legislation, but still refuse to cosponsor. That's a bit odd, and strikes me as some CYA that Landrieu is doing for the pro-lynching crowd. These Senators currently have the choice to add their names retroactively to the list of cosponsors and they're not doing it. And I'd like to know why. Because it's creepy as hell, particularly since they're all Republicans. Walks like someone pandering to racists, quacks like someone pandering to racists...

You'll note that Crapo (R-ID) has now cosponsored, but we discovered that Gordon Smith (R-OR) is NOT a cosponsor.

Alexander (R-TN)
Bennett (R-UT)Cochran
R-MS)Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lott (R-MS)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Sununu (R-NH)
Thomas (R-WY

My call to Senator Alexander met with an admin that had obviously fielded this inquiry many times before during the day. She said that she still had not received word concerning whether he would cosponsor this legislation. I told her I would call back. She made a sound, an exhalation of breath which I believed to mean she believed that I would call back.

posted by niteskolar @ 9:49 AM