Amendment to remove segregation language from constitution unlikely in '06

[Thom Little]

Alabama legislators aren't expected to try to remove segregation-era language from the state constitution in 2006 because controversial issues aren't popular in an election year.

"You won't see it until after election time," said Rep. Neal Morrison, D-Cullman, the new chairman of the House Constitution and Elections Committee.

State Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, begs to differ.

"It's not a controversial issue," Holmes said. "It's a very good issue, and I am going to use every method known to human ingenuity to remove every paragraph, every line and every word in the Alabama Constitution that refers to segregation and racial discrimination."


http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051213/NEWS02/512130318/1009

[misanthrope]

1. So amazing...

...that it should even be controversial.