Three cheers for Lamar
I have to send a serious hurrah out to my soon-to-be-Senior Senator Lamar Alexander for actually listening to his constituents today. According to Alexander's own account, literally thousands of Tennesseans have called his office urging him to vote against the terrible Senate version of the immigration reform legislation.Lamar actually listened to the people who elected him. He was on Knoxville station WVLZ this morning while in the hallway during the Senate vote. Senator Alexander voted NO. In his own words:
"This bill does not go far enough. It does not secure our borders. If I thought it did that, I would vote for it, but it does not."
Alexander also said that he thought the Senate bill had been revised so that it went "a long way" toward those goals compared with earlier versions of the legislation, but that it was simply not good enough for him.
This mentality can be contrasted with that of Bill Frist, who seems to think he can vote in favor of legislation that the overwhelming majority of his constituents will think is terrible and we will all forget this in two years when he runs for President. I can't speak for others, but if Bill Frist is on the ballot in the Tennessee Primary in 2008, he won't be getting my vote.
(Also at Where I Stand)
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee)
Actually listened when angry constituents called his office.
posted by Deacon David Oatney @ 10:47 AM
4 Comments:
I too am stunned... it seems to me that if all were right in the world (and by "right" I mean consistent) Alexander would have voted for the bill and Frist against it. Bill Frist has disappointed me time and time again since he became Majority Leader. It's really depressing to see the majority in the Senate look more and more similar to the Democratic majority circa 1994. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Rob Huddleston pointed out that every Southern Republican Senator voted NO except for Frist and his tote Mitch McConnell
I am soundly disappointed in Voinovich and Dewine. Although, not surprised at all. Voted for this amnesty bill, although why I'm not totally sure.
Gotta love Ohio politics.
As I recall, both Voinovich and DeWine identify with the Country Club crowd, do they not?
Voinovich is the former Democrat Mayor of Cleveland. Anybody from Cleveland can't be trusted worth a lick to do anything good in the national public sphere.
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