The following are excerpts from a Yahoo News article published 7/5/2014, read the full article HERE.
After black voters helped Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran survive an intense Republican primary runoff against an insurgent conservative challenger, some civil rights leaders in the South want him to repay the favor.
Their request? Cochran should lead the charge in the Senate to renew a key section of the Voting Rights Act struck down last year by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority.
“But for the Voting Rights Act, those African-Americans who turned out to the polls … to support his re-election would not have had the opportunity to do so,” said Mississippi NAACP President Derrick Johnson.
Black Mississippians, who AP exit polls have indicated overwhelmingly vote Democratic, have voted for Cochran in general elections in the past, but have never before been such a key voting bloc in a contested GOP contest. He must now ponder how to respond to that unusual primary coalition while mending fissures inside the state GOP, which is mostly supported by voters who are white.
“One has to be careful what we ask the senator to do,” said Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s envoy to Congress who worked in Mississippi during the civil rights movement as part of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
What they’re referring to are the changes to the Voting Rights Act that was modified by a Supreme Court decision a year ago. Many black activists, like the NAACP maintain that federal oversight is still needed and want the controls on certain states reinstated.
Cochran declined a request for comment about his position on that effort and hasn’t said anything publicly about the Voting Rights Act since his come-from-behind win in a runoff election that featured a surge in turnout compared to the primary, particularly in counties where a majority of voters are black.
“Everyone expects to get votes from both sides, and he’s been under attack from that,” she said. “I wouldn’t expect him to immediately stand up and make this his fight. His first task is to get himself back to the Senate.”
And then … after he’s entrenched for another six years, he can do their bidding …
The establishment RINOs weren’t shy about asking Mississippi’s black democrats to help Cochran out when he was in danger of being defeated, wouldn’t they expect Cochran to return the favor after he’s reelected?
Isn’t that exactly what we conservatives are rebelling against? A candidate that talks like a conservative Republican during a campaign, but votes like a democrat after he’s elected? That is exactly what the term RINO (Republican in Name Only) was invented to describe – and that’s precisely what Thad Cochran is – a RINO.
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