PFAW: Bush Should Ask For Lott's Resignation As Senate Majority Leader: 'Time For Moral Leadership From the President and Senate'

U.S. Newswire, December, 2002

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Trent Lott's most recent celebration of Strom Thurmond's blatantly segregationist 1948 presidential campaign -- in which he said Americans would now be better off if the country had embraced a segregationist presidential candidate -- should disqualify Lott from leading the United States Senate.

"It is a national embarrassment to have Trent Lott leading the U.S. Senate," said People For the American Way President Ralph G. Neas. "His recent statements are not an aberration but the culmination of a career of consistently opposing key civil rights principles and protections, even when people like Strom Thurmond sometimes supported them. Americans deserve better leadership at the beginning of the 21st Century."

"If President Bush's...