Trump Seeks Southern Votes
With Time-Tested Southern Strategy
(*With Sen. Jeff Sessions)
Trump may choose as his VP
running mate current Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (Sen. Jeff Sessions from Alabama).
Background on Sen. Sessions from this article (published in 2009).
Sessions’ nomination to the
Federal bench was rejected by the very same Senate committee some twenty years that
he sat on and insulted Sonia Sotomayor for her nomination to the USSC – where she
now sits and serves with dignity.
He was rejected for “racially insensitive statements asserting that he thought that the Klan was OK until he found out they smoked dope. He also called white civil rights lawyers race traitors. He admitted to routinely referring to an African-American attorney who worked for him as “boy” — even once warning that attorney to “be careful what you say to white folks!”
Sessions, it was disclosed, had a disturbing record of indicting black civil rights activists as U.S. Attorney in Mobile, AL. Invariably the cases were later dismissed. He was also accused of not investigating the spate of black church burnings that swept the state of Alabama the year he became attorney general.
Sessions further injured his own reputation when he prosecuted a black couple who suggested in a news article that he as U.S. Attorney may have been less than diligent during his investigation of a jail lynching of a black man accused of shoplifting.
During his confirmation hearings, he at first lied but later admitted that, “I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American and Communist, but I meant nothing by it.”
He was rejected for “racially insensitive statements asserting that he thought that the Klan was OK until he found out they smoked dope. He also called white civil rights lawyers race traitors. He admitted to routinely referring to an African-American attorney who worked for him as “boy” — even once warning that attorney to “be careful what you say to white folks!”
Sessions, it was disclosed, had a disturbing record of indicting black civil rights activists as U.S. Attorney in Mobile, AL. Invariably the cases were later dismissed. He was also accused of not investigating the spate of black church burnings that swept the state of Alabama the year he became attorney general.
Sessions further injured his own reputation when he prosecuted a black couple who suggested in a news article that he as U.S. Attorney may have been less than diligent during his investigation of a jail lynching of a black man accused of shoplifting.
During his confirmation hearings, he at first lied but later admitted that, “I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American and Communist, but I meant nothing by it.”
Yeah, that Jeff Sessions –
perfect fit for “The Donald” – birds, feathers come to mind.
Stay tuned for outcome.
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