What goes around comes around (maybe)

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Those who have been closely following the election results last week will be aware that Louisiana election law requires a runoff if no candidate gets 50% of the vote. The Republicans may yet pick up another Senate seat. Remember Jesse Helms and his amendment to the education bill regarding access to public facilities? It turns out that Senator Landrieu's votes on this may hurt her.

 

 

Landrieu's opposition to the Boy Scouts may come back to haunt her.

 

November 11, 2002: Sen. Mary Landrieu (D.-La.), forced by her poor November 5 showing into a December 7 runoff election, must now convince the people of Louisiana to send to Washington two senators who are members of the Senate minority (the state's other senator is Democrat John Breaux) rather than a member of the Bush team, state Elections Commissioner Suzanne Haik Terrell (R.). President Bush is wildly popular in the state, which he won by eight points (135,000 votes) in 2000. Landrieu is also facing a rebellion by Black political leaders in the state, who are refusing to actively support her campaign.

 

Moreover, Landrieu is out of touch with her state on some key social issues. While she has been willing to vote against partial-birth abortion and to co-sponsor legislation against human cloning, she also voted against the Boy Scouts twice in June 2001--an issue Senator-elect Saxby Chambliss (R.-Ga.) used in his successful long-shot bid to knock off Sen. Max Cleland (D.-Ga.). Georgia Republican Chairman Ralph Reed--who engineered the Peach State upset--discussed the issue.

 

The first vote was on an amendment proposed by Sen. Jesse Helms (R.-N.C) to cut off federal funds to schools that discriminate against the Boy Scouts because of their policy of not allowing homosexual scoutmasters. Landrieu, who did not comment in the debate, voted "no." The second vote was on an amendment by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D.-Calif.) that weakened the Helms amendment. Landrieu voted "yes," joining the vast majority of her party.

 

 

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But the blacks came back for her didn't they? And her vote was not against the Boy Scouts, but against Jesse Helms moronic views. Jesse Helms........... Need I say more? Thank God he is retired now.

 

ASM1