--- Dennis Tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Resistance was futile" > > I'll say it was. > > Once again, with all the talk about cultural respect > and ethnic diversity, > you people still went out and nominated the white > guys for mayor and school > board.
You got your facts correct, but your insinuation is your sole opinion, at best. Respect for cultural and ethnic diversity means that you will be given and equal chance or an equal shot. It does not, should not guarantee a specific outcome. Conservatives and Affirmative Action opponents never understood that basic point. It explains why you wrote everything else below. On the other hand, far too many liberals never really address the barriers preventing equal access or equal opportunity and make it up with questionable/controversial policies addressing outcome(the quick and 'clean' way around the problem). Yesterday, I can say that we who supported Ortega had a real shot coming into the endorsment to walk out with it. In my opinion, the Coleman campaign was successful in their 'floor' strategy. They had enough people to post almost three at each table in the convention working on 'flipping' Ortega delegates, sustaining Coleman's support, and/or helping the undecided decide. That made the difference. >Meanwhile, the democrats in the U.S. Senate, > including Sen. Robert > "sheets" Byrd (KKK-WV), Over 60 years ago, Byrd was a member of the KKK. Dropped out after less than a year-its on record and when he ran for office eight years later in the 50's, it was an issue. He admitted it, apologized for it and said �Becoming involved with the KKK was the most egregious mistake I have ever made,� - this was his statement in the 50's. Before the Civil Rights Movement, and right after the 'Dixie' Democrats began finding a home in the GOP. Recently Byrd has further explained his reason for involvement, �Upon introspection, I find the entire episode difficult to understand. The only conclusion I can draw for myself is that I was sorely afflicted by a dangerous tunnel vision, the kind of tunnel vision that, I fear, leads young people today to join gangs or hate groups.� Match those words with his voting record on programs that should be equalizers (education, health care, etc) and it appears that he clearly has learned from his mistake. Democrat Harry Truman is also a former Klan member that was full of remorse for that association, after desegregating the military, its hard to argue that he was the same racist that he surly was as a young man (there are a collection of letters to his wife that are truly horrible). Republican Jesse Helms was yet another member of the KKK early in life. Can't quite point to anything the South Carolina Senator did in his career to show he left office a different man than the one that went in with the support of segregationists and racists. >(democrats)are promising to block the > vote of California judge Janice Rogers Brown (a black >woman) for elevation to the federal bench. > Yep she's black and she's a judge, but Janice Rogers Brown has a record of ideological extremism and aggressive judicial activism. Not just your run of the mill judicial activism, aggresive. When Brown was nominated to the state supreme court in 1996, she was found unqualified by the state bar evaluation committee, based not only on her relative inexperience but also because she was �prone to inserting conservative political views into her appellate opinions". I guess the Right is only concerned with 'activist' judges who won't follow their brand of justice or judicial review. > Some of us get it. Others are slower to come around > apparently. > Yeah, but we'll keep working on you buddy. Take your time. Eric Mitchell Payne Phalen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------- JOIN the St. Paul Issues Forum TODAY: http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/ ------------------------------------------------- POST MESSAGES HERE: [email protected] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/
