Petition: A Call for a Public and Official Rebuke of Sen. Christopher Dodd

GOPUSA ^ | April 8, 2004 | GOPUSA

[Terri GOPUSA]

To: Members of the United States Senate

Referring to Sen. Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, who voted against civil rights legislation and who holds the distinction of being the only senator in U.S. history to vote against both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court, Sen. Christopher Dodd said he "cannot think of a single moment in this nation's 220-plus year history where [Byrd] would not have been a valuable asset to this country."

This is the same Robert Byrd who once told Tony Snow on Fox News that there are "white [n-word]."

The lack of media attention and Senate outrage to Dodd's comments are astonishing given what happened in December 2002 when Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott complimented Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond at his 100th birthday party by asserting if he had been elected president in 1948 running as a member of the segregationist Dixiecrat Party, then "we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years."

The media frenzy that followed was phenomenal to say the least. And the public outrage generated by the media led directly to Trent Lott being ousted from his leadership position.

In December 2002, Dodd stated, "If a Democratic leader had made [Lott's] statements, we would have to call for his stepping aside, without any question whatsoever."

He added that action should be "very swift" and "unanimous."

We agree with Sen. Dodd!

We, the undersigned, call on Sen. Dodd to honor his own words and do the right thing. We call on members of the U.S. Senate, both Republicans and Democrats, to step forward and show that a double standard does not exist. We call on all members of the U.S. Senate to publicly and officially rebuke Sen. Christopher Dodd for praising a colleague with a known racist past and for the insensitivity in which he has dealt with this issue. We also call on members of the media to address this situation with the same vigor in which they covered Sen. Trent Lott's comments.

[Terri GOPUSA]

We are tired of the media and Senate double standard.

We invite you to sign the petition asking that Senator Dodd be held accountable for his remarks.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

How can this be? I read the Washington Post, and I haven't seen anything about this... Do I have to subscribe to the New York Times to get this kind of news? I'm sure the NY Times has been featuring this news report, right?

[LurkedLongEnough]

Been trying to make Dodd accountable for years. He'd rather admit being a dissimilator, just like his idol, than face the real world.

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[WinOne4TheGipper]

How does the religious left respond to this, considering that one of the mantras of their religion is that the media has a conservative bias, not a liberal one.

[nutmeg]

Contact Senator Dodd:

In Washington DC:
Senator Chris Dodd
SR-448 Russell Building
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Tel. (202) 224-2823
Fax. (202) 228-1683

In Connecticut:
Senator Chris Dodd
Putnam Park
100 Great Meadow Road
Wethersfield, CT 06109
Tel. (860) 258-6940 or (800) 334-5341 (CT only)

Contact Senator Dodd via Web Mail

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[Terri GOPUSA]

The petition will be delivered to the Senator.

Here's a link to the newsstory on Dodd's comments.

Media Silent on Dodd Comments, Intense When Covering Lott

[Roarkdude]

e-Signed.

[clintonh8r]

The petition rejected four times because it said my email addresses don't match. That's odd because they're auto-entered when I type in the first couple of characters. They have to match. Let me know when they straighten it out. I don't have all day to fill in the fields.

[LisaFab]

Signed and bumped.

Terri, you guys over at GOPUSA do some great work--great witers too :-)

[Terri GOPUSA]

Thank you, Lisa! We try.

I'll agree on the writers too! ;)

[CharlesThe Hammer]

Done. Dodd should lose his committee seats and receive public rebuke just like Lott.

[alancarp]

Next action: let's have a petition to censure Robert Byrd for being Robert Byrd.

[dozer7]

"Contact Senator Dodd via Web Mail"

don't bother you cannot find a title for you reply and you can not find one that will be accepted with the pull down menu

[Elkiejg]

Signed petition. Even more disgusting about KKKByrd is that he appears to be a doddering old drunk who has no business handling ANY government business.