Who ARE the 20 Senators who did NOT sign the Anti-Lynching resolution???

[Up2Late]

I've seen several reports on this, but non of them say who the 20 are.

I love this quote on why those 20 might not want to sign it:

"I think it's politics. They're afraid of losing votes from people of prejudice," Duster said of those who did not sign the statement of support.

Here the article:

U.S. Senate apologizes for shame of lynchings

Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:08 PM ET

By Thomas Ferraro

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Monday formally apologized for having rejected decades of pleas to make lynching a federal crime as scores victims' descendants watched from the chamber's gallery. On a voice vote and without opposition, the Senate passed a resolution expressing its regrets to the relatives as well as to the nearly 5,000 Americans -- mostly black males -- who were documented as having been lynched from 1880 to 1960.

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SIGNATURES MISSING

Dan Duster, a descendant of Ida B. Wells, a former slave who became an anti-lynching crusader, praised senators who publicly backed the resolution of apology and scorned those who did not.

No lawmaker opposed the measure, but 20 of the 100 senators had not signed a statement of support of it shortly before a vote was taken on a nearly empty Senate floor.

"I think it's politics. They're afraid of losing votes from people of prejudice," Duster said of those who did not sign the statement of support.

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Also there was James Cameron, 91, believed to be the only known lynching survivor. Cameron was arrested in August 1930 in Marion, Indiana, and taken to jail along with two of his friends for the murder a white man and suspected rape of a white woman.

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(Then their this from Neo-Condi)

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the first black woman to hold the post, praised the Senate for its apology, saying, "better late than never." "I remember as a kid the stories about lynchings -- everybody's family had at least one story," Rice, who grew up in the South, told MSNBC' "Hardball with Chris Matthews." "My grandfather, who ran away from home at 13 because he'd gotten into an altercation with a white man over something that happened with his sister, and he was pretty sure that if he hung around, that's what was going to happen," Rice said.

(more at link above)

[snowbear]

1. Wow... I'd like to know who they were too!

How many of the 20 were convienently "unavailable" and how many flat out wouldn't sign it? :wow:

If anyone finds the list, can you please share it here? :hug:

[usregimechange]

2. Somebody didn't sign it? Are you sure?

[Up2Late]

8. Yeah, it says right here

"...No lawmaker opposed the measure, but 20 of the 100 senators had not signed a statement of support of it shortly before a vote was taken on a nearly empty Senate floor...."

It's not a vote Against it, but it sure not a vote for it either.

[personman]

3. Interesting...

Earlier when I first heard about this, they mentioned something about how similar legislation had been shot down about 200 times (between 1889 and 1968 I think they said), and I was really wondering who had voted against it. I wonder if some DUer with some decent net research skills might be able to track down who shot those down? and how many of those people are still senators? May be able to figure it out from that assuming most people who would not sign this would probably be old white guys who where senators back then. What do you think?

Edit. Hmmm also, if we e-mail those senators, and express displeasure(but extremely civily) at them for not signing, we may be able to bluff them into revealing themselves in their replies.

[usregimechange]

5. 1968 was a long time ago, bet there would only be 5 still there

[personman]

6. Ahh yeah, I forgot.

most of them were probably old when they became senators, ah well.

[usregimechange]

7. But I thought the thread author was saying 20 today didn't vote

[personman]

9. I think he was too.

What I was suggesting was that if we could figure out who shot it down before, the ones who are still senators quite likely didn't sign this time.

[Up2Late]

10. Sort of, this was one of those Voice votes, where the only way...

...you are actually on the record of having voted for the Resolution is, you have to have signed it.

One of the Senators says, "Mr President, I ask unanimous consent that this Resolution be adopted as read (or as presented), then the Acting "President of the Senate" says, "All in favor say "Aye,' Apposed? The Ayes have it, it is so adopted."

(or something like that, those might not be the exact words)

On Edit: Here's a my post from Sunday A.M. on this:

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1542031&mesg_id=1542031>

[Rainscents]

4. It's on C-SPAN now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Please watch!!!

[tritsofme]

11. This is all I could find on Thomas

It doesn't look updated from today, so there are only 61 senators signed on.

S.RES.39
Title: A resolution apologizing to the victims of lynching and the descendants of those victims for the failure of the Senate to enact anti-lynching legislation.
Sponsor: Sen Landrieu, Mary L. (introduced 2/7/2005) Cosponsors (60)
Latest Major Action: 2/7/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

COSPONSORS(60), ALPHABETICAL : (Sort: by date)
Sen Akaka, Daniel K. - 2/7/2005
Sen Allard, Wayne - 2/7/2005
Sen Allen, George - 2/7/2005
Sen Bayh, Evan - 2/7/2005
Sen Biden, Joseph R., Jr. - 2/7/2005
Sen Boxer, Barbara - 2/7/2005
Sen Brownback, Sam - 2/7/2005
Sen Burr, Richard - 6/9/2005
Sen Byrd, Robert C. - 6/7/2005
Sen Cantwell, Maria - 6/8/2005
Sen Carper, Thomas R. - 6/9/2005
Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham - 6/9/2005
Sen Coburn, Tom - 6/7/2005
Sen Coleman, Norm - 6/7/2005
Sen Collins, Susan M. - 2/7/2005
Sen Corzine, Jon S. - 2/7/2005
Sen Craig, Larry E. - 6/7/2005
Sen Dayton, Mark - 2/7/2005
Sen DeMint, Jim - 6/8/2005
Sen Dodd, Christopher J. - 2/7/2005
Sen Domenici, Pete V. - 6/8/2005
Sen Dorgan, Byron L. - 6/9/2005
Sen Durbin, Richard - 2/7/2005
Sen Ensign, John - 2/7/2005
Sen Feingold, Russell D. - 2/7/2005
Sen Feinstein, Dianne - 2/7/2005
Sen Frist, William H. - 2/7/2005
Sen Graham, Lindsey - 6/9/2005
Sen Hagel, Chuck - 2/7/2005
Sen Harkin, Tom - 2/7/2005
Sen Inouye, Daniel K. - 6/9/2005
Sen Jeffords, James M. - 2/7/2005
Sen Johnson, Tim - 2/7/2005
Sen Kennedy, Edward M. - 2/7/2005
Sen Kerry, John F. - 2/28/2005
Sen Kohl, Herb - 2/7/2005
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. - 2/7/2005
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. - 2/7/2005
Sen Levin, Carl - 2/7/2005
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. - 2/7/2005
Sen Lincoln, Blanche L. - 2/17/2005
Sen Lugar, Richard G. - 2/7/2005
Sen McCain, John - 2/7/2005
Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. - 6/7/2005
Sen Murray, Patty - 6/7/2005
Sen Nelson, Bill - 2/7/2005
Sen Nelson, E. Benjamin - 6/9/2005
Sen Obama, Barack - 2/17/2005
Sen Pryor, Mark L. - 2/7/2005
Sen Reid, Harry - 2/7/2005
Sen Salazar, Ken - 2/17/2005
Sen Santorum, Rick - 2/17/2005
Sen Sarbanes, Paul S. - 2/28/2005
Sen Schumer, Charles E. - 2/7/2005
Sen Snowe, Olympia J. - 2/7/2005
Sen Specter, Arlen - 2/7/2005
Sen Stabenow, Debbie - 2/17/2005
Sen Stevens, Ted - 2/7/2005
Sen Talent, Jim - 2/7/2005
Sen Vitter, David - 2/17/2005

So I guess 20 more signed on quick today, and the other 20 didn't?

[nicholieeee]

12. i would like to say that i'm surprised

to see that delay didn't sign it... but alas, i'm not.

[tritsofme]

14. I would be mighty surprised if Delay signed it as well...

being that he is not a member of the Senate... ;)

[Up2Late]

15. I would be to.

Psssst, he's in the House :hide:

[nicholieeee]

37. oops

forgive me, it was three in the morning when i read this post...my eyes tend to glaze over around 230. guess i won't be skimming anymore :dunce:

[Up2Late]

13. That's all I could find too, Thomas is not updated yet

Well, keep an I open.:evilgrin:

[WillyT]

16. We Tried To Figure It Out Over Here:

Numbers didn't add up quite.

I went from a list of all Senators, and just put up who weren't on the original list in this post. (I'm at near the bottom)

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3851625

:hi:

[OBrien]

25. No Texas!

Hutchinson and Cornyn surprise surprise

[Up2Late]

17. WELLLLLL!!!! I know 2 who are not on the list of 60! My 2 from Georgia

Sen Saxby Chambliss-(R - GA) and Sen. Johnny Isakson,-(R - GA)!
Both Repukes.

[alphafemale]

21. I noticed that too. Wasn't surprised though. nt

[TroglodyteScholar]

28. :(((((

Not only repukes, but repukes of the worst kind. Chambliss got into office by slandering Max Cleland viciously...and Diebold probably didn't hurt Senator Shameless either. Isakson got into office by drumming up abortion fears in the religiously insane (of which there are plenty in our suffering state). I heard radio debates with him and he was a complete dick without any other ideas. It's really difficult for me to write to either of these guys because I know my opinions go straight to the circular file.

What do you do, Up2Late, to improve the outlook in Georgia? It's very disheartening to live in a state where our Democrat Secretary of State (Cathy Cox) is one of Diebold's most active proponents...

[Up2Late]

33. I don't even know what to think about next years Democratic Primary

On the one hand, I think voting for Cathy Cox would be good, because she's the one Democrat that knows how the voting system actually works. Now is that a Good thing or a Bad thing?

Then, will the majority of Georgia voters, vote for a woman to be Governor? And, does that really matter if she or Diebold have rigged the voting anyway?

The only thing I do know is, we are going to have one fewer Democrat in state wide office if the 2 top Democrats run against each other to become Governor.:crazy:

[Mass]

18. Latest list of cosponsors. (78)

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SE00039:@@@P


Sen Akaka, Daniel K. - 2/7/2005
Sen Allard, Wayne - 2/7/2005
Sen Allen, George - 2/7/2005
Sen Baucus, Max - 6/13/2005
Sen Bayh, Evan - 2/7/2005
Sen Biden, Joseph R., Jr. - 2/7/2005
Sen Bond, Christopher S. - 6/13/2005
Sen Boxer, Barbara - 2/7/2005
Sen Brownback, Sam - 2/7/2005
Sen Bunning, Jim - 6/13/2005
Sen Burns, Conrad R. - 6/13/2005
Sen Burr, Richard - 6/9/2005
Sen Byrd, Robert C. - 6/7/2005
Sen Cantwell, Maria - 6/8/2005
Sen Carper, Thomas R. - 6/9/2005
Sen Chafee, Lincoln - 6/13/2005
Sen Chambliss, Saxby - 6/13/2005
Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham - 6/9/2005
Sen Coburn, Tom - 6/7/2005
Sen Coleman, Norm - 6/7/2005
Sen Collins, Susan M. - 2/7/2005
Sen Corzine, Jon S. - 2/7/2005
Sen Craig, Larry E. - 6/7/2005
Sen Dayton, Mark - 2/7/2005
Sen DeMint, Jim - 6/8/2005
Sen DeWine, Mike - 6/13/2005
Sen Dodd, Christopher J. - 2/7/2005
Sen Dole, Elizabeth - 6/13/2005
Sen Domenici, Pete V. - 6/8/2005
Sen Dorgan, Byron L. - 6/9/2005
Sen Durbin, Richard - 2/7/2005
Sen Ensign, John - 2/7/2005
Sen Feingold, Russell D. - 2/7/2005
Sen Feinstein, Dianne - 2/7/2005
Sen Frist, William H. - 2/7/2005
Sen Graham, Lindsey - 6/9/2005
Sen Hagel, Chuck - 2/7/2005
Sen Harkin, Tom - 2/7/2005
Sen Inhofe, James M. - 6/13/2005
Sen Inouye, Daniel K. - 6/9/2005
Sen Isakson, Johnny - 6/13/2005
Sen Jeffords, James M. - 2/7/2005
Sen Johnson, Tim - 2/7/2005
Sen Kennedy, Edward M. - 2/7/2005
Sen Kerry, John F. - 2/28/2005
Sen Kohl, Herb - 2/7/2005
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. - 2/7/2005
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. - 2/7/2005
Sen Levin, Carl - 2/7/2005
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. - 2/7/2005
Sen Lincoln, Blanche L. - 2/17/2005
Sen Lugar, Richard G. - 2/7/2005
Sen Martinez, Mel - 6/13/2005
Sen McCain, John - 2/7/2005
Sen McConnell, Mitch - 6/13/2005
Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. - 6/7/2005
Sen Murray, Patty - 6/7/2005
Sen Nelson, Bill - 2/7/2005
Sen Nelson, E. Benjamin - 6/9/2005
Sen Obama, Barack - 2/17/2005
Sen Pryor, Mark L. - 2/7/2005
Sen Reid, Harry - 2/7/2005
Sen Roberts, Pat - 6/13/2005
Sen Rockefeller, John D., IV - 6/13/2005
Sen Salazar, Ken - 2/17/2005
Sen Santorum, Rick - 2/17/2005
Sen Sarbanes, Paul S. - 2/28/2005
Sen Schumer, Charles E. - 2/7/2005
Sen Sessions, Jeff - 6/13/2005
Sen Snowe, Olympia J. - 2/7/2005
Sen Specter, Arlen - 2/7/2005
Sen Stabenow, Debbie - 2/17/2005
Sen Stevens, Ted - 2/7/2005
Sen Talent, Jim - 2/7/2005
Sen Thune, John - 6/13/2005
Sen Vitter, David - 2/17/2005
Sen Warner, John - 6/13/2005
Sen Wyden, Ron - 6/13/2005

[AirAmFan]

19. The shameful 21 include 4 of 18 members of the Judiciary

Committee (Hatch, Kyl, Grassley, and Cornyn. This is a disgrace!

Lott, Cochran, Shelby, Alexander, and KBH are no surprise, given their Confederate urges to insult millions of their constitutents. But Voinovich, Smith, Bingaman, Reed, and Conrad? They had four months to sign on, so there's no excuse.

This list is the difference between the 79 sponsors/cosponsors of the apology (at http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SE00039:@@@P ) and the list of all 100 Senators (at http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm ).

R-AK Murkowski, Lisa
R-AL Shelby, Richard
R-AZ Kyl, Jon

R-IA Grassley, Chuck
R-ID Crapo, Michael
R-MS Cochran, Thad

R-MS Lott, Trent
R-NH Gregg, Judd
R-NH Sununu, John

R-OH Voinovich, George
R-OR Smith, Gordon
R-TN Alexander, Lamar

R-TX Cornyn, John
R-TX Hutchison, Kay
R-UT Bennett, Robert

R-UT Hatch, Orrin
R-WY Enzi, Michael
R-WY Thomas, Craig

D-ND Conrad, Kent
D-NM Bingaman, Jeff
D-RI Reed, Jack

[foo_bar]

24. both senators from Wyoming?

Rest in peace, Matthew Shepherd. What a world.

[AirAmFan]

38. Just like vote suppression, throughout American history lynching

has been a proud tradition in many many states. Mary Landrieu's speech last night in a nearly-empty Senate chamber mentioned that lynchings had been recorded in all but 4 continental states.

In the Old West, they called them "necktie parties". And, just as in the South, lynchings were good for terrorizing minorities into staying "in their place", whether they be freed African-American slaves, dispossessed Native Americans, "coolie" Asian railroad workers, Hispanic immigrants, or whoever.

Lynchings became unnecessary as America developed a brutal police and "justice" apparatus to deal with "uppity" minorities: African-American rates of incarceration at any moment in time now are more than seven times the white rate nationwide. But without lynchings, other forms of vote suppression had to be developed. The vote-suppression aspects of lynching have been consolidated with violent police repression of minorities through "felon disfranchisement".

[SpiralHawk]

34. I see Crapo is among the missing in action

following the lead of his regularly AWOL Republican-in-chief. Shame.

[Up2Late]

35. Thanks this is very useful

This should be sent to the "Newspaper of Record" I think they call it, for all of these Senators Home States.

I think all of the folks need to explain themselves and should be held to account.


I think I'm most shocked about the 3 Democrats and

R-IA Grassley, Chuck
R-OH Voinovich, George

I was starting to like those 2.

[bobbieinok]

20. Inhofe????? signed on 6-13??????

[Mass]

23. 18 Senators signed last week or yesterday

[alphafemale]

22. The GA Senators (Chambliss, Isakson) are on the list now.

Lott is missing. And Shelby.

[TroglodyteScholar]

29. Well, looks like our GA guys finally got on the bus....

....I hope they have to sit in the back.

[WillyT]

36. Thanks For The Link !!!

:kick:

[flpoljunkie]

26. Southern states accounted for 9/10's of lynchings. Four states had none.

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html#b

Lynchings occurred throughout the United States; it was not a sectional crime. However, the great majority of lynchings in the United States took place in the Southern and border states. According to social economist Gunnar Myrdal: “The Southern states account for nine-tenths of the lynchings. More than two-thirds of the remaining one-tenth occurred in the six states which immediately border the South: Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kansas.” Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama were the leading lynching states. These five states furnished nearly half the total victims. Mississippi had the highest incidence of lynchings in the South as well as the highest for the nation, with Georgia and Texas taking second and third places, respectively. However, there were lynchings in the North and West. In fact, every state in the continental United States with the exception of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont has had lynching casualties.

[flpoljunkie]

27. Co-Sponsor George Allen, likely '08 contender, has noose in his law office

Although the Senate garnered praise on Monday for acting to erase that stain, some critics said lawmakers had a long way to go. Of the 100 senators, 80 were co-sponsors of the resolution, and because it passed by voice vote, senators escaped putting themselves on record.

"It's a statement in itself that there aren't 100 co-sponsors," Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, said. "It's a statement in itself that there's not an up-or-down vote."

Others described the resolution as an act of expediency for Mr. Allen, who is a likely presidential candidate and who has been criticized for displaying a Confederate flag at his home and a noose in his law office. Mr. Allen said that they were part of collections of flags and Western paraphernalia and that he was motivated not by politics, but by a plea by Dick Gregory, the civil rights advocate, who wrote him a letter urging him not to "choose to do nothing."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/14/politics/14lynch.html

[WePurrsevere]

30. Why a voice vote?

Why protect those who voted against it?

Are those who voted against it ashamed? (darn well should be imo)

What a sad reflection on our country, what a horrible statement to make to other countries and what a frightening message to send to those extremely bigoted few who may think that this kind of behavior may be at all acceptable.

20% of the Senate... I sure hope that's not reflective of how many Americans would agree.

[Coexist]

31. another thread on this with names...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3854653&mesg_id=3854653

[Felix Mala]

32. Sad that in Americ today, there are people who would vote out

someone who signed on to this. And they wonder why the Red States are vilified...