demand an answer from Trent and Thad

[SSX]

The Senate passed a resolution last night apologizing for the lynchings of the past 8 decades. There has been no comment from our Senators. The Clarion Ledger ran this article today.
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050614/NEWS010702/506140388
My reply to the article in a ltte I sent this morning:
Ana Radelat, The Clarion Ledger's Washington Bureau reporter in her June 14th article titled "Senate approves lynching resolution" had this to say about the Senate vote to apologize for the Senate's inability to pass legislation to stop lynchings over the past 80 years-"About 80 of the 100 members of the Senate co-sponsored the resolution. But Republican Sens. Thad Cochran and Trent Lott were not among them, even though Mississippi led the nation in the numbers of lynchings."
We are trying to make progress in this state. We have opened both the Killen case and the Emitt Till case in order to bring the guilty to justice for crimes that have long haunted our state in the eyes of the nation.
The scheduling of the vote on the Senate floor on a Monday night when only 6 Senators were present and the fact that Sen. Bill Frist made it a voice vote which does not allow the citizens to know who voted" for" or "against" is very telling.
Sen . John Kerry had these thoughts on the vote-"It's a statement in itself that there aren't 100 co-sponsors," said. "It's a statement in itself that there's not an up-or-down vote."
So where were our two Republican Senators stand on this vote? I think the citizens of the state have the right to know. Are they "for" this resolution or are they afraid to alienate the bigot vote? You can reach Thad Cochran at his Senate Office number-[phone] and Trent Lott at-[phone]. "No comment " won't cut it.Demand an answer!

[acmejack]

1. This is a great idea!

I will be on the phone to my two jerks as well (see I am being "nice" in deference to OKNancy, who had a problem with some of the more colorful vernacular employed on DU. The morality police are everywhere). But I digress, will be calling Kay and Johnnie, asking for some info on their votes. After all they should be proud of their stands, shouldn't they?

[SSX]

2. made the calls

Called Lott's office and asked " Is Senator Lott planning on signing on as a co-sponsor of the Senate anti-lynching resolution passed last night?" I was immediately turned over to an answering machine where I left the same question and added a bit about Miss. having the most lynchings. Left contact info. Not holding my breath on that return call.
Called Cochran's office and a very polite young lady told me he supported it but was out of town. I asked her if he was going to sign on as co-sponsor and informed her that he still could and she replied that she thought it was over.I told her it wasn't and she said she couldn't speak for him. I asked her who could and she hung up.

[Ken Burch]

3. Would you say that Lott and Cochran's stand on this can be effectively

used against them in their next reelections?

Do most Mississippians feel strongly enough about this to care?

(BTW, let me say that you folks have my undying admiration for being part of the moderate-to-progressive resistance in Ole Miss.

[GoldenEagle]

4. Lott and How to beat him

I have spent about 20 years studying this fellow. I found a weakness in him that makes him easy to catch showing his total lack of concern about Mississippi. I am surprised nobody has really hit it yet and I do know it works, but the problem is getting it done.

I had a debate with him in the 80s in Ocean Springs. I got to ask a question at the Town Meeting and he dismissed my question with the old standby,"That is a liberal organization." Problem was he called the Mississippi Educators liberal without knowing it. I caught up with him after the meeting and in front of about 40 people continued my debate with him. When he discovered the group I was referring to was the Mississippi Educators and presented him the facts,he admitted I had him unable to respond. He then offered me a job on his staff which I refused.

I am now maintaining a blog for Erik Fleming and I have direct contact with him and will throughout his campaign. The Blue Dot Blog has a very good page to keep up with the votes of Trent Lott and I make sure anything I find out about his actions are recorded there and documented.

I hope you will visit the Blog and you can find it on my profile, but most of all let's get behind Erik Fleming and get him into office. I will see anything you pass on to me will reach him if you will be so helpful as to post it on the message board or the forum linked to the blog. We can beat Lott, but it is going to take all of us getting behind Erik Fleming and speaking to people one on one. We have to make a massive grassroots effort, but we have time and the chance. It is of course up to us.

[Ole Miss Dems Prez]

5. Golden Eagle...

Golden Eagle,

Are you at USM? I'm serving up here at the capacity my screen name indicates, and my mission is to hold this organization intact so the next year's group will be able to have a smooth transition and be able to work on this election. One idea I had for registering voters was going down to CPR fest during the summer next year and setting up a booth. Surely those are our voters. I also am urging this group to go out to the delta region and do the same thing at the Blues festival out there. What are some of your ideas?