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Oh, i wish i was in the land of cotton, old times there are not forgotten. watch it all. make her cry. jesse helm's epic filibuster against the martin luther king jr. holiday, interesting the ap asked him, are you worried how it would affect you politicly? you're in a state with a lot of not only was he worried about that is what he was building his capital on. filibusterering, that was something he came back to again and again and again in his political life, proudly. he was not ashamed of it. he used it a lot. it can spike a particular white vote if you do stuff like that even if it costs yo...

In congress. states senate seat in north carolina, that was opened in 1972. helm, and jesse helm, senator helms, ultimately got to the senate too late to stop the hated voting rights act, but when it was up for reauthorization for the first time in 1982, jesse helm filibustered it in his words, until the cows came home, doing everything he could to get rid of the voting rights act. that was 1982. in '83 he led an epic filibuster with martin luther king jr. when he finally relented, the ap interviewed him about what he had done. this was kind of amazing. i stumbled across it today

Graham's beloved unc as the university of negroes and commissiounis communists. and said this was the most dangerous piece of legislation in congress. he ran himself in the united states senate seat in north carolina, that was opened in 1972. and know is how we got jesse helm, and jesse helm, senator helms, ultimately got to the senate too late to stop the hated voting rights act, but when it was up for reauthorization for the first time in 1982, jesse helm filibustered it in his words, until the cows came home, doing everything he could to get rid of the voting rights act. that was 1982. in '...

Looking at old newspaper clippings. quote, he said in an interview he realized his opposition to king and his comments angered the black community. but he said he didn't expect to get much black support anyway. he said i faced reality, the blacks have a history of voting democratic down the line. jesse helm did overlap with one african-american senator during his entire tenure in the united states senate. famously he got into one of the elevators with her and the senator from utah. he turned to orrin hatch, and said quote, watch me make her cry. i'm going to sing "dixie" until she cries, and t...