To: cgbg
Kerry defeated Ed Brooke, the only black elected senator at the time. This was in 1978, when Jimmy the Weasel was prez. Carter made sure to cook up an honorable discharge for his pal Johnny Boy, then he got back to doubling the size of the federal judiciary, etc....
60 posted on
02/18/2005 9:34:32 AM PST by
Luke21
To: Luke21
Ed Brooke (Black Republican) was involved in a scandalous divorce. The publicity hurt him a lot. (Thank you Boston Globe for helping to remove the first Black Senator since Reconstruction)
Paul Tsongas won the Senate seat. Tsongas later contracted cancer and left the Senate. Kerry ran for that seat and won it in 1982!
61 posted on
02/18/2005 9:42:48 AM PST by
Radix
(This country needs a seriously good buggy whip government subsidy program.)
To: Luke21
I forgot about Brooke.
It can fairly be said that John Kerry opposed an African-American in the United States Senate can it not?
But then again, conservatives do not get away with true, but misleading, statements do we?
62 posted on
02/18/2005 9:48:20 AM PST by
The Great Yazoo
(Why do penumbras not emanate from the Tenth Amendment as promiscuously as they do from the First?)
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