Sen. Orrin Hatch (along with two other GOP Senators) has finally added his name as a co-sponsor to Senate Resolution 39, apologizing for a century of looking the other way on lynching.
That leaves 13 GOP Senators who still won't even make a symbolic gesture (by becoming a co-sponsor after the fact)to a symbolic gesture (passing a resolution of apology now for not passing a federal law when it counted then).
Among those 13 is Oregon's own Gordon Smith.
That's not a typo. As of this afternoon, his office confirms that the Senator has not signed on, although they haven't exactly got their signals straight when it comes to explaining why not.
"Oregon: We're 50% willing to say that lynchings were a bad thing." Wonder if there's room for that on our new quarter?
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