Kentucky Dems Speak Out About Rand Paul

[cal04]

by bmaples
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/20/868388/-Kentucky-Dems-Speak-Out-About-Rand-Paul

Rep. John Yarmuth (KY-3) and Senate candidate Jack Conway both attacked Rand Paul's recent statements on civil rights and lunch counters. Make the jump to read what they said -- especially Jack's last zinger at Paul.

From Yarmuth's press release:

"The comments by Senate candidate Rand Paul opposing the Civil Rights Act are simply appalling, and make it abundantly clear that he has no place holding public office in Kentucky in the 21st century. Our Commonwealth was the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line to establish a Commission on Human Rights dedicated to ending discrimination and we have worked hard to show the nation that Jim Crow laws are a distant part of our history.

Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and women should be treated equally -- a promise for which many Americans have lost their lives.

Leading is not hypothetical debating; it’s about solving real problems. It is the job of a Member of Congress to represent the needs of every one of their constituents, not to allow businesses to segregate or discriminate against them.

Rand Paul has already embarrassed Kentuckians in the eyes of the world. The Commonwealth deserves better because we are better - and I call on Mitch McConnell and my other colleagues in the Kentucky Congressional Delegation to join me in condemning his despicable views."

And from Jack Conway:

Rand Paul is promoting a narrow and rigid ideology and has repeatedly rejected a fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act. He is focused on the Tea Party whereas I am running to be a senator for all the people of Kentucky, who are really hurting right now.

No matter how he tries to spin to the contrary, the fact is that Paul's ideology has dangerous consequences for working families, veterans, students, the disabled, and those without a voice in the halls of power. Kentucky voters have a choice between Rand Paul's ideology and our campaign to create jobs, cut the deficit, and bring accountability to Wall Street and Washington. We are reaching out to Democrats, Independents and Republicans across Kentucky to ask them to join our campaign and stand up for Kentucky families.

But check this last bit in an interview with the Washington Post:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/05/jack_conway_pauls_statement_on.html

"Rand Paul has this tendency to get in public or get on national cable shows and feel like he wants to give me a lecture on constitutional law," said Conway. "I'm the attorney general of Kentucky. He didn't go to law school. I did. I don't need a lecture on Constitutional law from Rand Paul or Sarah Palin."

[Bryn]

1. I can almost guarantee that Rand Paul will lose in November

What he said is unacceptable.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

2. Why isn't anyone pointing out that his father believes the very same thing.

His father has expressed the view that we didn't need the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul188.html

[Lifelong Protester]

3. You know there is no vetting process for the Teabaggers

they will put any blowhard up for office that 'looks purty' on camera. I like Conway's analysis of Paul as "focused on teh Tea Party whereas I am running to be a senator for all the people of Kentucky".

May the TPers die off soon. But not until we have enough to really bury them. And we are getting close.

[guruoo]

4. If they fail to renounce, this issue alone could turn into the stake through the heart

of the TP movement.

[margotb822]

6. Of course, they still support discrimination based on

sexual orientation. Hypocrites.

I hope this is the beginning of the end for them.

[guruoo]

7. And now religion, too...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8385354

[era veteran]

5. Carpetbagger, ignorant of the state, gold standard, no EPA, Civil Rights Act

of 1964, coal is clean and good, & etc.......................... don't forget a dullard too. The only thing worse than the idiot Bunning.