Who are the 20 Senators who voted against the Anti-Lynching law?

[RethugAssKicker]

WE MUST KNOW

[tk2kewl]

1. its on the greatest page

[aden_nak]

2. Daily Kos has it.

http://www.dailykos.com

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)

[helderheid]

3. ah lovely

2 from my State. Bennet and Hatch. UGH

[ToeBot]

9. I knew as soon as this was mentioned that the Utah goons would...

make the list. 'Saints' my ass.

[Sherwood]

4. What reason did they give? N/T

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. OMG! Those DISGUSTING CREATURES! Voinovich???!!!!!!

They should hang their heads in shame!

[aden_nak]

6. I was disappointed to see Voinovich there, too.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/aden_nak/81919.html

[Patty Diana]

11. This action just PROVES that Howard Dean was right, we should

capitalize on this. The GOP really doesn't care about Blacks, this vote proved it!!!!!

[aden_nak]

15. You know, I was thinking the same thing. :D

[BOSSHOG]

7. Cochran and Lott

can't afford to agitate their poor white trash base.

[Strawman]

8. Pretty sad that these Repugs (and Conrad) couldn't even vote for this

Can't even bring themselves vote for the empty symbolic gesture to make George Allen look like he gives a shit about black people before he runs for President resolution? Afraid it might not play well with their good ol' boy constituents?

"Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., the Senate's only black member, said, 'I do hope that this chamber also spends some time ... doing something concrete and tangible to heal the long shadow of slavery and the legacy of discrimination so that 100 years from now we can look back and be proud and not have to apologize once again.'"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050614/ap_on_go_co/lynching_apology;_ylt=AoDZ71E3xk08BZG1Z0NyHyNp24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[KC21304]

10. Has Conrad given a reason ? Is he sick, or otherwise

not available ?

[geek tragedy]

14. He's going to be added as a co-sponsor.

He had CAFTA and base closures and about a million other things on his plate. A mistake and an oversight, but an honest one.

[MasonJar]

12. I do not see Jim Bunning on your list; he was on another list. I

need to know before I raise a stink.

[Piperay]

13. Shame, shame, shame

these 20 are a disgrace as human beings. :mad:

[markus]

16. It wasn't a roll call, so all we have is the co-sponsor list

I'm from North Dakota, but originally from N'wawlins, and I'm going to call Conrad's office and give them an earful. I think an apology is in order.

As an aside, anyone else remember the map of lynchings in Harpers (back inside page) a decade or so ago? It was amazing. You could identify every population center in the south clearly from the clusters.

Except N'wawlins.

Hey, it ain't perfect (as the recent spate of stories about racist yahoo bouncers and bartenders in teh Quarter), but it was also perhaps the only major black concentration city to avoid riots in teh 60s.

It guess we really are the Big Easy.