oskar576 wrote:
Senator Jessie Helms
Repug?
As if you have to ask?
You liked it, he was agin' it: multiculturalism, government funding for the arts, gay rights, AIDS funding. Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela (on whom Helms turned his back during Mandela's visit to the U.S. Capitol). Integration, the United Nations, smoking bans, cancer researchers, nuclear arms reduction, the Martin Luther King holiday, Bill Clinton, Ryan White (also snubbed), trigger locks on guns, a woman's right to choose, foreign aid, and sufficient heat for the poor black residents of the slums he owned in Raleigh.
WASHINGTON — Asserting that their "deliberate, disgusting and revolting conduct" is the cause of their disease, Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) has stalled renewal of the nation's largest health care program for people with AIDS, a delay that threatens to shut down a host of services in Los Angeles if not resolved by summer's end.
The Ryan White Care Act of 1990--named for the late Indiana teen-ager who acquired the virus from a blood transfusion--expires Sept. 30, and Helms has put a hold on the bill that would renew it for another five years.
A bill to reauthorize the act for five years passed a Senate committee unanimously in March and has 61 co-sponsors, including Dole, making it filibuster-proof. A House committee is set to consider the legislation in a few weeks.
But Helms, a fierce opponent of gay rights, has long argued that too much public money is spent treating people with AIDS. He did not return phone calls Wednesday or Thursday seeking comment, but recently told the New York Times: "We've got to have some common sense about a disease transmitted by people deliberately engaging in unnatural acts."
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