The U.S. Senate has formally apologized for the failure to outlaw lynching, but Alabama Republican Senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions were not among the 80 senators who co-sponsored the legislation.Great, Sessions supports the resolution, then add your name to it as a cosponsor. You can still do that AFTER the resolution is passed. So, do it. As for Shelby, great, you didn't know about it, well NOW YOU DO. So are you cosponsoring the anti-lynching resolution or not, Senator Shelby?
Shelby's press secretary Virginia Davis said the senator supports the resolution, even though he was in the minority of senators who were not co-sponsors.
Shelby said he did not remember anyone asking him to co-sponsor the bill.
Sessions' press secretary Mike Brumas said Sessions does not endorse everything that crosses his desk, but the senator said in a statement that he backs the resolution.
And I may just add, kudos to the local news in Alabama for picking up on this story AND finding the local angle. There's hope yet, for the media and for the south. I'm serious, it's important to show the rest of the country that some people there actually get it.
(Hat tip to Michelle for sending in this link)
