Kent Conrad is going to be added as a co-sponsor of the Anti-Lynching bill

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My contact inside Conrad's office has confirmed this. Others posting at Kos have similar reports.

Now, can those people who smeared Senator Conrad as "pro-lynching" and a "racist" because "North Dakotans don't care about black folk" kindly go get stuffed? If there's one thing than angers me more than Republicans, it's stupid-ass liberals who try to tear other liberals down over nothing.

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1. GOOD!

Now we can club the Repubs to death with their refusal to sign on! What took him so long?

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2. CAFTA, base closures, federal funding for projects in-state

to name a few.

[Mass]

5. Same thing as the other senators who cosponsored the bill in february.

I do not doubt he supports the bill, but he probably got surprised by the absence of rollcall vote.

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6. Okay, you're right. Kent Conrad is really just a lying, evil racist DINO

who doesn't care about black people because North Dakota is mostly white, and he probably hates Native Americans too.

:sarcasm:

[Mass]

7. WHat did I say?

I imagine he expected to vote for the bill in a rollcall vote and did not bother to sponsor the bill.

Seems a lot of people got surprised by the vote that was fixed at the last minute.

I am not implying he was against the bill. He is the name who does not fit in the list.

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8. I'm not sure what people want. Sorry if I went overboard there.

It's just that there's a whole lot of crap going on with N. Dak and federal funding right now.

The Rethug governor (actually a nice guy, but kind of an empty suit) is being HEAVILY courted by Karl Rove and the RNCC to run against Conrad. He spent the night at the WH earlier this week.

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3. A Little Slow On The Draw No?

IF EVEN TRUE!

I'll Believe It When I See It!

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4. No.

It was an oversight on someone's part for his name to not have been on the list earlier, but that oversight has been corrected (in part due to the phone calls they got).

Senators depend on their staffs as their eyes and ears to a great extent.

Jesus, what did Kent Conrad ever to do you? I would think that a progressive Dem from a deep Red state would be entitled to the benefit of the doubt. Apparently not.