GOP-led Senate rebukes Rand Paul on civil rights
Rand Paul, Republican nominee for U.S. Senate
By John Cheves – jcheves@herald-leader.com
The Republican-led Kentucky Senate approved a sharply worded resolution Friday that was aimed at rebuking Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul’s recent questioning of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Senate Resolution 31, filed by Sen. Gerald Neal, D-Louisville, and co-sponsored by all but one of his Republican and Democratic colleagues, expressed the Senate’s support for the Civil Rights Actand criticized as “outside the mainstream of American values” those who oppose any part of the law.
“Suggestions have appeared recently that we retreat from the core values of the protection of equal rights of the citizens of the United States,” says Senate Resolution 31.
Only an “extreme minority of persons in the United States” would support such a move, it says.
The Senate adopted the resolution, which did not name Paul, on a voice vote. Only one senator, Gary Tapp, R-Shelbyville, did not sign onto the resolution, but he did not attend last week’s special legislative session.
Senate President David Williams, the top Republican in Frankfort, said he agreed with the resolution’s language but did not view it as a jab at Paul or a political statement on the U.S. Senate race. “There’s not very much in this resolution that anyone could disagree with,” Williams said Tuesday.
Paul’s campaign chairman, David Adams, said Tuesday that he was aware of the Senate’s resolution but declined to comment on it.
The resolution was aimed squarely at Paul and his recent questioning of a provision in the Civil Rights Act that prevents private businesses from discriminating based on race, Neal said Tuesday.
In interviews with national media outlets, Paul has cited this part of the law as an example of the government overreaching.
“Here is an individual from Kentucky speaking nationally on a fundamental value, a fundamental right enshrined in our laws, and there had been no official response on behalf of Kentucky,” Neal said. “I felt it was important for our institution to say that not everybody here agrees with the ideological positions put forward by Mr. Rand Paul.”
Neal said he filed his resolution last Wednesday under a procedure that listed all senators present as co-sponsors unless they objected. Nobody objected over the next two days, he said.
“Senate leadership clearly knew what was going on, they were paying attention,” Neal said. “I talked to the majority floor leader. There was no opposition.”
Williams said Paul stressed to him in recent conversations that he is not a racist and would not vote to repeal any part of the Civil Rights Act if elected to the Senate. Paul was merely expressing his philosophical viewpoint about private property rights and the proper role of government, Williams said.
“He just needs to not take hypothetical questions” from the media, Williams said.
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Good to know that all the KY Senators do not agree with Rand Paul, but bad that the majority of Kentuckians do….
Hey Senate Republicans. Guess what? I rebuke you, and none of you will ever receive another vote from me. Rand now has literally no incentive to go along with the party line. I hope he gets to Washington, and when he does, I hope he does whatever the hell he wants to do. And he hope he drags the Democrats AND Republicans straight to hell when he does it.
grandstanding, attention-seeking goof balls.
PBS, you have not a clue what you are talking about. The VAST majority of people across this state and nation are against racial discrimination. Your claim is nonsensical.
Paul supporters aren’t going to listen to the GOP. Heck they don’t even listen to the nonsense Paul says. Tea is the new Kool-aid.
Kentucky didn’t “ratify” the 14 amendment until 1976. Must have been the Republicans who ran this state and still do…OH, WAIT!
Pual supporters must be more ignorant than Palins, she is laughing…
It looks like the cannibalism may have started. It is good to see that some main stream Republicans will speak up against this kook.
Who cares what they think. They’re just a bunch of pandering political idiots that do whatever they think will get them a vote. Time for them to go. Vote for Paul
As if we needed any more reason to dislike our state legislature…. yet they keep stoking the fire. Does no one understand the concepts of personal liberty and property rights today? If so, I congratulate those who successfully usurped our educational system: Bravo. You have managed to pollute the minds of a two generations with your Progressive nonsense, effectively neutering philosophical foundation of Western Civilization.
Rand will be the next Senator from the state of KY. There will soon be a voice for liberty in the wilderness that is the US Senate.
hmmm… i think all rand paul said was, that the govt. shouldnt be able to tell people what they can and cant do with their property, and since hes not a good ole boy from DC,they put words in his mouth,why? cause they dont want freedom loving people to put someone in office that will actually fight for less govt and more freedom, so the only thing the crooks in dc know what to do is start a smear campaign against him, because they know he will not go along with their raping and pillaging of america and its people, go rand paul u got my vote, and screw you world socialist commie punks, i cant wait till the day people wake up and hang these crooks from the lamppost in the streets, freedom forever….. tyranny never, may god bless the USA
What a bunch of Weak Sisters. Allowing the MSM spin to set the agenda on Rand’s comments instead of putting their own spin on those comments. These are the ‘establishment’ republicans who have compromised away our American traditions and constitutional rights. Out with them all. I’d rather have a conservative democrat than a RINO. Bad RINOs! No votes for you.
EKUgrad kw and Big Jay – since you seem to think that discrimination against others is valid in a personal business, could you give us some concrete examples of what kinds of folks you would personally discriminate against in your business. I’m just trying to get an idea of what is really going though your minds.
If you think its ok, you must have some vision of someone doing it, and you think that its reasonable for a human to act like that.
The question to me, is, do I want to live in a society that permits that? I think our current constitution and its amendments say that we as a society have decided no in some cases.
Shame on EKUgrad and kw to be willing to put property rights ahead of civil rights.
Hey snappy, you have been drinking WAYYYYYYYY too much TEA. Keep your head in the sand if you like.
And NO ONE will pay ANY attention to that voice
Rand Paul – In Your Gut You Know He’s Nuts.
How many of my fellow Republicans wish Rand Paul would just go away ?
How much is Rand Paul paying all of these people to flood message boards supporting his loony schtick?
Commenter, I’m not certain as to the answer to your question. I do know that the Paulards are getting increasingly more shrill and testy. They’ve begun to sound a lot like ACORN supporters of Obomba once the realized that he was simple a mere mortal. Better that than a core racist as Paul.
Actually, that’s not what he said. Do your research before posting.
I can’t believe I am saying this, but for once David Williams and the GOP senate has done something of admirability for our state and our citizens. Let us just hope the as mentioned earlier, that the citizens of Kentucky will not support Mr. Paul’s old style ignorant beliefs.
The Republican spin machine: Idlehour Country Club allowed it’s very first African American member, and that is just because one of their own, (Andy Barr) is a Congressional candidate. Guess he didn’t want to be labeled a racist either. And now Rand Paul’s fellow Republicans want to distance themselves from him. Hey….y’all nominated him. Guess your vetting process didn’t work so well.
What a huge waste of time, par for the course for the GOP. There are much more important and relevant issues for the Senators to deal with.
train05, what?! this is not a tea thing. (at least I think not)
You just have to look around and see that our country generally works pretty darn well. I see people of all stripes, colors, persuasions, etc, frequenting and patronizing establishments, hanging out together. Polls show that the attitudes are vastly different now that 50 years ago.
So, show me where my statement is false. Please explain how the vast majority of people in our nation ARE racist, and I’ll concede you are correct.
Or perhaps you just wanted to spout off without actually saying anything useful?
The kooks are trying to get away from the kook. I am still amazed Rand Paul was nominated by the republicans. You yield what you sow.
Some crappy song said “You have got to stand for something or u’ll fall for anything”. America over and over is falling for every race card(how many fkin cards are in this deck anyway?)& trick in the book. The Pauls are in the EXTREME minority of people I’ve seen bravely standing up and pointing out corruption in BOTH parties. Ron was on TV/internet every week during Bush years(yes the first term too) being just as critical of W’s corruption as he is of Obama’s. His principles(even if u don’t like some of the ideas) are to be admired. It remains to be seen if Rand can fill those shoes, it’s tough to tell from a campaign, I have HOPE.. Looks like Gary Tapp is the only one of these joker’s getting my vote, I hope we can get some Paulish type folk in there that actually stand for something greater than special interest and re-election.
Tin-foil hats anyone, the kooky just got kookier if that is possible!
No rights are absolute. Ben Franklin thought that all property above the level of a savage’s hut depends on the existence of a social compact that allows its safe accumulation, and as such is answerable to the needs of the society that made it possible, if necessary.
I’m not as radical as that great, dead, white, male, but I think what we see here is what happens when a principle is held without any regard for consequences. When property rights were treated as more absolute, one of the consequences was the growth of socialism, communism, and left-anarchism as people saw the consequences of such. (This was in the great days of the first McKinley Administration, which Rove and Norquist have labelled as their desideratum.)
It’s the moderating influence of reasonable limits to property rights and contract that allow them to be so tolerated by those of us without giant amounts of property to protect, that and technologies public and private that result in enough of us to have enough property to support the system, whilst incidentally helping us be good consumers and keep things rolling along (see: the G.I. Bill, which will result in trillions of dollars’ being inherited by Boomers, and that bastard Henry Ford’s wise decision to pay his workers enough to allow them to become his customers).
‘enough of us to have enough property’
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‘enough of us to having enough property’
(Grammar absolutism is, by contrast, a _good_ idea, as inability to correctly form [split infinitives are o.k. in English] a sentences bespeaks an inability to form a coherent thought.)
‘enough of us to having enough property’
—>
‘enough of us having enough property’
Duh…shows me to be kind to others when _they_ screw-up. Twice. Whilst being snarky.
Another negative Paul story. The Lexington Herald-Liberal continues to spiral towards irrelevance along with its chosen one: Jack Conway.
I feel so enlightened now Snippy, thank you. Maybe I should have said that the majority of posters on these boards agree with Paul, which from what I am reading that do!
Myself, I’d have preferred David Williams to either Paul or Grayson as the GOP Senate nominee.
You liberals (Republican and Democrat) are in for the fight of your lives. You have no concept of how motivated the true Patriots of the TEA party are. You are best to drop this issue but I know that you won’t because you have not platform, no principles, no soul. Bring it on!!!
The polls are plummetting as we write!
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/kentucky/election_2010_kentucky_sena
As they do the Paulards will be getting more shrill and combative. Just watch. They’ll get vile, mean, aggressive, and personally rude. Mark my words!
BJefferson – the tea partiers may be the most motivated … I’ll certainly grant they are the nosiest, but there are just too few to make much difference in the grand scheme of things. Just like the libertarians, who toil ceaselessly, and occasional make the rest of the public sit back and think a bit, but they never really move the body public.
It will certainly be interesting to see how it plays out in the mid term elections.
To me, what I’d really wish is for the pundits that never get anything right, to vanish into the haze after some number of failures (actually this goes for political pundits, and a good number of economists. We need fresh thinkers on the public stage (either side, or even a third side) … its all getting a bit stale as it is.
And folks on all sides have plenty of soul. The tea partiers don’t have a lock on that. Its just that with the money that funnels into the two houses, that they eventually lose their souls to the plutocrats unless they are very strong, or step aside after a few terms. I’ve seen nothing in the tea party candidates that indicates that they are impervious to this.
Buck – David Williams just can’t get the idea that the government doesn’t need to be giving money to private colleges. That little snafu of his with the University of the Cumberlands (Cumberland College before they got too big for their britches) did him in for me.
The state has allocated too little money for the state colleges as it is. They last thing we need is them funneling more off to someone’s best buddy at a private college.
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