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PAGE 18 ▼ Q-Notes ▼ January 20, 2001 Ashcroft Continued from page 1 • He distorted and misrepresented the record of a highly qualified African American Missouri Supreme Court Judge, Ronnie White, and mis led his colleagues in the Senate in order to sabo tage White’s nomination to a federal district court. • He has led attempts to amend the Consti tution and pass legislation that would virtually eliminate a woman’s reproductive rights by ban ning abortions, even for rape and incest victims. • The abortion ban he proposes is so extreme that it could be used to outlaw widely accepted and commonly used birth control methods in cluding the Pill and lUDs. • He engaged in extremist rhetoric to en force an anti-abortion litmus test against a highly qualified African American physician. Dr. David Satcher, who, despite Ashcroft’s at tacks, won confirmation by a two-thirds ma jority as Surgeon General in 1998. During the Senate debate on Dr. Satcher’s nomination, Ashcroft accused him of being “someone who is indifferent to infanticide. • Similarly, abortion was the litmus test Ashcroft applied in helping to block Dr. Henry Foster’s confirmation as Surgeon General in 1995. • He employed another litmus test issue, af firmative action, to help block a full Senate vote on the nomination of Asian American Bill Lann Lee as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, a position under the direct supervision of the Attorney General. • Ashcroft has opposed legislation designed to end workplace discrimination (the Employ ment Non-Discrimination Act) and to protect vulnerable groups of Americans against hate crimes (the Hate Crimes Prevention Act). • He has given public praise to the far right magazine Southern Partisan, a neo-Confeder- ate fringe publication that promotes the view, among others, that slavery was beneficial to the enslaved Africans. • He cast the sole vote in 1999 against a continuing resolution to keep the federal gov ernment running and has voted with big to bacco, with gun manufacturers, and against a national drunk driving standard. • He consistently receives top ratings and endorsements from far right groups such as the National Rifle Association and the Christian Coalition, a distinction conferred only on their most dependable allies. “I am a uniter, not a divider.” — President George W Bush ; during his 2000presidential campaign «/-T-r jf here are voices in the Republican , Party today who preach pragmatism, who champion conciliation, who counsel compromise. I stand here today to reject those deceptions. If ever there was a time to unfurl the banner of unabashed conservatism, it is now.” - Former Senator John Ashcroft (right) , , ' Human Events, April JO, 1998 Ashcroft takes a cavalier attitude toward the Constitution, as evidenced by his frequent ef forts to.amend it. In just six years in the Senate he introduced or sponsored seven attempted amendments. One of the most radical of these was one he proposed in 1996 that would have changed the Framers’ original framework in order to make it much easier to amend the Constitution, thus opening the way for disas trous political and ideological mischief The National Journal wrote that, “Ashcroft’s recotd in 1997 and 1998 put him in a tie as the most-conservative Senator, according to the Na tional Journal’s rankings.” According to that analysis. Senator Ashcroft was even farther to the right than Jesse Helms. Read the full report by surfing to www.pfaw.com and following the links. 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