GOP-led state Senate rebukes Rand Paul on civil rights

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GOP-led state Senate rebukes Paul on civil rights
GOP leader doesn't see Civil Rights Act resolution as jab at candidate
By John Cheves


The Republican-led Kentucky Senate approved a sharply worded resolution Friday that was aimed at rebuking Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's recent questioning of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Senate Resolution 31, filed by Sen. Gerald Neal, D-Louisville, and co-sponsored by all but one of his Republican and Democratic colleagues, expressed the Senate's support for the Civil Rights Act and criticized as "outside the mainstream of American values" those who oppose any part of the law.

"Suggestions have appeared recently that we retreat from the core values of the protection of equal rights of the citizens of the United States," says Senate Resolution 31.

Only an "extreme minority of persons in the United States" would support such a move, it says.

The Senate adopted the resolution, which did not name Paul, on a voice vote. Only one senator, Gary Tapp, R-Shelbyville, did not sign onto the resolution, but he did not attend last week's special legislative session.

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