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Paul seeks to refocus debate on current issues, says he supports Civil Rights Act
By Jon Ward - The Daily Caller | Published: 05/20/10 at 1:59 PM | Updated: 05/21/10 at 2:28 AM
Rand Paul, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, sought Thursday to deflect attacks on his position that the Civil Rights Act may represent federal government overreach by emphasizing his support for the legislation in its totality and rejecting the idea that he is in favor of repealing it.
Late Thursday, Paul said on CNN that he “would have voted yes” for the landmark legislation in 1964.
“I think that there was an overriding problem in the South so big that it did require federal intervention in the ’60s. And it stems from things that I said, you know, had been going on, really, 120 years too long. And the Southern states weren’t correcting it,” Paul said.
“And I think there was a need for federal intervention.”
The White House meanwhile said Paul’s comments made the day prior were out of line.
“I think the issues that, that many fought for in the ‘50s and the ‘60s were settled a long time ago in landmark legislation and the discussion about whether or not to support those, I don’t think, shouldn’t have a place in our political dialogue in 2010,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.
In Paul tried to refocus the debate on current issues, particularly President Obama’s health care law, which his election opponent, Democratic attorney general Jack Conway, has supported but which is overwhelmingly unpopular in Kentucky.
But Paul did not distance himself from his position that it is not the federal government’s place to tell private business owners what they can and cannot do in their establishment.
“I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws,” Paul said in a statement e-mailed to reporters.
“Even though this matter was settled when I was two, and no serious people are seeking to revisit it except to score cheap political points, I unequivocally state that I will not support any efforts to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” Paul said.
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http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/20/p...ent-issues-says-he-supports-civil-rights-act/
By Jon Ward - The Daily Caller | Published: 05/20/10 at 1:59 PM | Updated: 05/21/10 at 2:28 AM
Rand Paul, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, sought Thursday to deflect attacks on his position that the Civil Rights Act may represent federal government overreach by emphasizing his support for the legislation in its totality and rejecting the idea that he is in favor of repealing it.
Late Thursday, Paul said on CNN that he “would have voted yes” for the landmark legislation in 1964.
“I think that there was an overriding problem in the South so big that it did require federal intervention in the ’60s. And it stems from things that I said, you know, had been going on, really, 120 years too long. And the Southern states weren’t correcting it,” Paul said.
“And I think there was a need for federal intervention.”
The White House meanwhile said Paul’s comments made the day prior were out of line.
“I think the issues that, that many fought for in the ‘50s and the ‘60s were settled a long time ago in landmark legislation and the discussion about whether or not to support those, I don’t think, shouldn’t have a place in our political dialogue in 2010,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.
In Paul tried to refocus the debate on current issues, particularly President Obama’s health care law, which his election opponent, Democratic attorney general Jack Conway, has supported but which is overwhelmingly unpopular in Kentucky.
But Paul did not distance himself from his position that it is not the federal government’s place to tell private business owners what they can and cannot do in their establishment.
“I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws,” Paul said in a statement e-mailed to reporters.
“Even though this matter was settled when I was two, and no serious people are seeking to revisit it except to score cheap political points, I unequivocally state that I will not support any efforts to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” Paul said.
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http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/20/p...ent-issues-says-he-supports-civil-rights-act/
