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jesse helms dies
Published Jul 4, 2008Views: 1296
Regardless of how you felt about Jesse's politics, one had to respect he never retreated on his core beliefs, his soul was not for sale...jack
Raleigh, N.C. — Jesse Helms, the firebrand U.S. senator whose outspoken, conservative views polarized North Carolina and U.S. voters for decades, died early Friday, according to John Dodd, president of the Jesse Helms Center.
He was 86.
His cause of death was not released.
Helms served five terms in the U.S. Senate, retiring in 2003 because of his faltering health. During his 30 years in Capitol Hill, the North Carolina Republican became a powerful voice for a conservative movement that was growing both in Congress and across the country, and he used his position to speak out against issues like gay rights, federal funding for the arts and U.S. foreign aid.
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In domestic politics he denounced the 1964 Civil Rights Act as "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress", voted against a supreme court justice because she was "likely to uphold the homosexual agenda", acted for years as spokesman for the large tobacco companies, was reprimanded by the justice department and the federal election commission for electoral malpractice, and compiled a dismal personal record as a slum landlord.
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Senator Helms was a controversial politician, no doubt about it, especially when it was to his benefit like most politicians. He pandered to a scary faction, they finally ran out of steam no longer tolerated in our courts of law and our social conscience. We've come a long way and may have a long way to go but I hope we'll go it together as AMERICANS - not Afro-Americans, Hispanic Americans, Italian Americans or Asian Americans, etc. -as AMERICANS. This country is governed by THE PEOPLE and we, THE PEOPLE, are AMERICANS. For the right now and the future of my children and grandchildren, our race is not important -- the content of our character and our allegiance is. Just my 2 cents worth
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