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By Mike Cuenca | January 5, 2003
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The biggest reason that Republicans and right-of-center and centrist
Democrats are scrambling to distance themselves from Sen. Lott's
accidental truthfulness is that they all have reason to fear a review
of their own positions on race.
The NAACP's bi-annual Legislative Report Card is published to provide
voters with "insight into the general voting patterns of their
congressional representatives and state delegations."
The report card
rates our representatives' votes on important social justice- and civil
rights-related legislation.
Lott, of course, received an F, with a
score of 12 percent. Kit Bond of Missouri and both Kansas senators
received Fs. Sam Brownback scored only three points higher than Lott
(15 percent) and Pat Roberts scored only 18 percent.
Among the House
members, Jerry Moran, Jim Ryun and Todd Tiahrt of Kansas all received
Fs. Likewise, all of Missouri's Republican representatives scored F's.
Consequently, these people are likely to scream loudly that Lott is an
aberrant, rogue politician. But just as we can look back at Lott's
record, we can look back at all of their records.
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Originally published by the Kansas City Star.
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