- Rand Paul
The Kentucky State Senate has responded to Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul’s suggestion that the federal government shouldn’t have the power to enforce the Civil Rights Act against private businesses.
In response to Paul’s comments, the state Senate passed a resolution calling any form of discrimination inconsistent with American values.
The resolution, SR31, is designed to “Affirm protections of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States requiring equal protection of the law, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Kentucky Civil Rights Act of 1966, which protect the citizens of the Commonwealth from discrimination.”
Since he made those infamous comments about the Civil Rights Act on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, Paul’s campaign has been suffering, and last week he replaced his campaign manager, according to USA Today.
After his appearance on Maddow, he cancelled an appearance on “Meet the Press” and issued an announcement that, if elected, he would not seek to repeal the Civil Rights Act.
Scientists claim that a headless cockroach can be expected to survive about 10 days.
Kentucky might have found an exception to the rule in Rand Paul.
Here’s as short social satire video that I think he deserves:
https://bit.ly/asYks5
This guy is CRAZY but the sad thing is that many people out there agree with him………….
In my view, Rand Paul is clearly an idealist. But does he, as a potential senator, have the ability to write law? To write law, one needs to know what will promote liberty and justice. Rand Paul believes in the ideal of liberty in private business decisions. But he has only recently realized that, in the 1960s South, private owners of restrooms, restaurants, entertainment venues and transport needed be required to open these facilities to blacks. Most “Public Accommodations” were, and according to Paul’s Libertarian ideals, ought to be privately owned. So should these facilities become publicly owned before blacks could use them? Was the “Free Market” going to combat racism in the near term? I think not. In those times “Whites Only” Businesses did quite well. Because of this, the force of law was needed to secure blacks simple justice. There was little justice when, for example, traveling blacks had to carry a jar to pee in because they were excluded from most restrooms. Rand Paul, as a potential senator, needs to think more clearly about justice, in real imperfect societies, whether in the 1960s South or 2010 America.
Yeah but was it a unanimous vote? No way to know on a voice vote unless someone was there to hear a nay.
He and Palin should hang out sometime! They could sit out on her back porch and look at Russia!
it just tells you that some lawmakers from federal and state level have too much time on their hands to muck about. we have high unemployment and this is what they’re doing. only in kentucky.
Right Patricia. I’m crazy to think people should have the right to decide what they do with their own property (in this case their business).
Businesses are not public property.
These senators are fearful of being subjected to the same non-stop vitriol as Rand Paul.
Oh, please. If a private business wants to remain private, it should not be open to the public.
if i was rand i’d say what happened to the tough american. we’ve become emotionally gay. get some spines you jellyfish and like mathew’s say…time to play some hardball.
What’s wrong with being emotionally gay? I wouldn’t be any other way. Or by “emotionally gay” did you mean not being a bigot is “gay?”
Rachel Maddow played Rand Paul. She and all you other liberals who pull your hair
out over 50 year old settled law do it only to keep from having to face the fact that you
got used, again, by the Democratic Party. Where are the anti war protests? Isn’t that why
Barry won? What makes him different from Bush? He and the rest of congress, dems and
repubs, are now pushing us toward war with Iran. Could somebody at least wave a sign? Nope.
Look over there!!! I see a racist!!! Pathetic.