To quote a dunderhead overheard at a McCain rally I covered last week, let’s call a spade a spade (he was referring to Sen. Obama):
Georgia congressman Lynn Westmoreland is a racist jackass. In his own words (via Fresh Loaf):
“Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 3673, the Second Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act to Meet Immediate Needs Arising From the Consequences of Hurricane Katrina.”
— Westmoreland’s 2005 statement on the House floor against a Katrina relief bill“I’m not going to deny there weren’t problems. But right now, if you look at those same communities where there were problems, those communities are controlled by minorities.”
— Westmoreland, arguing in 2005 that it was time to weaken the Voting Rights Act“He never said anything to me whether he was going to vote for it or against it. But with the makeup of his district and the history of Georgia, I thought he’d vote for it like all the other members of the Georgia delegation did.”
— Rep. John Lewis after Westmoreland was one of two congressmen to vote against federal investigations into Civil Rights era lynchings, June 2007
