Not Just One Vote
Posted by Michael Link on April 4, 2008 at 02:59 PM
There's some distortion by John McCain over his many years of opposition to a King holiday, both at the federal and state level. He's trying to make it sound like this was just one vote, a long time ago. People aren't buying it, as the many people booing his speech earlier today made clear, but there are a few different parts to this so I figured I'd put them all in one place.
1983: McCain votes against a federal King holiday. It overwhelmingly passes anyway.
1987: McCain backs Arizona's governor in rescinding a state-level recognition of the King holiday.
1987: McCain: "They never gave us any meaningful news. They told us the day that Martin Luther King was shot, they told us the day that Bobby Kennedy was shot, but they never bothered to tell us about the moon shot. So it was certainly selected news."
1989: McCain decides to finally back a state holiday, but says he's "still opposed" to a federal holiday.
1992: McCain endorses a state holiday measure.
1994: McCain voted to defund a commission working to promote the King holiday.
And then, sometime, eventually, he got around to endorsing the idea at the federal level. None of this even begins to scratch the surface of his broader record on civil rights...
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