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To: tejek who wrote (170460)	6/3/2003 7:18:59 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579772

There is no evidence that he was unsympathetic to her situation. And why aren't you asking why Bush did not support the hate crime legislation? Because supporting it would be wrong. How would you feel if your father had been killed by racists and the governor of your state refused to support legislation that might discourage people from committing such crimes in the future. If a possible death penalty for murder won't discourage them the odds that any hate crime penalty will is slight. And if the penalty for murder (or in other cases, assualt and battery, rape, whatever) is not enough to discourage the crime then it should be increased for crimes against all people for all reasons. But if you disagree with that fine, we disagree on many other things, but what I object to is the implication that it is racist to be against hate crime laws. As for the Republicans in the TX legislature, to the extent that I understand what happened, I agree they where over the top, but I fail to see the relevance. Or is it ok for Dems to do anything hateful or over the top as a long as you can think of an example of Republicans being over the top? If anyone is at fault, its probably the hard line conservatives who support him and tell him not to get behind such legislation. Take it up with the them......they're probably the heart of the problem. There not the problem they are right on this issue. But even if they where wrong, that is one of the ugliest and most unfair political adds that I have heard about, at least, in America on the national level and since I was old enough to follow politics. I've seen how the Reps. treat their own. And I've seen how democrats treat their own, such as former governor Casey of PA. Instead of blaming the Dems., you might look at how the Reps. express their views and go about getting what they want. They are far from perfect but not as bad as the Dems. Tim