Rallying the " Texas Taliban " ?

Are Texas' two Republican Senators trying to motivate the same voters as Texas Governor Rick Perry ? I'm sure there are valid reasons for their not being co-sponsors of the Senate "Lynching Resolution" but have yet to hear either one articulate their lack of participation. I have called Senator Hutchinsons's office this morning and will post her reply.

Here is the list of those not supporting the "Lynching Resolution":

Lamar Alexander (R-TN) - (202) 224-4944
Robert Bennett (R-UT) - (202) 224-5444
Thad Cochran (R-MS) - (202) 224-5054
John Cornyn (R-TX) - (202) 224-2934
Michael Crapo (R-ID) - (202) 224-6142
Michael Enzi (R-WY) - (202) 224-3424
Chuck Grassley (R-IA) - (202) 224-3744
Judd Gregg (R-NH) - (202) 224-3324
Orrin Hatch (R-UT) - (202) 224-5251
Kay Hutchison (R-TX) - (202) 224-5922
Jon Kyl (R-AZ) - (202) 224-4521
Trent Lott (R-MS) - (202) 224-6253
Richard Shelby (R-AL) - (202) 224-5744
John Sununu (R-NH) - (202) 224-2841
Craig Thomas (R-WY) - (202) 224-6441

source: http://www.americablog.org/
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My letter to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican from Texas:

Letters To Leaders
All messages are published with permission of the sender. The general topic of this message is Civil Rights:
Subject:
Senate Lynching Resolution Inquiry

To:
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
June 15, 2005

It's my understanding that you are not one of the co-sponsors of the Senate Resolution regarding this nations despicable & recorded history of lynchings. As one of my representatives in Washington, I would appreciate the articulation of your position on this Resolution. As a courtesy, I would like to make available the Dallas Morning News Editorial regarding this issue:

Todays Dallas Morning News Editorial

Confronting Our Past: Decades later, a trial and a Senate apology
12:03 AM CDT on Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Anyone old enough to remember the slayings of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman in the summer of 1964 also will recall the brazenness of the crime.
The three young men were abducted and slain. Their bodies were found 44 days later, buried beneath an earthen dam in Philadelphia, Miss. All for helping African-Americans register to vote.
Now, 41 years later, the state of Mississippi is bringing to trial 80-year-old Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Klansman and accused mastermind of the grisly slayings. And by coincidence, the trial began as the U.S. Senate formally apologized for years of stonewalling anti-lynching laws.
Such irony. Had the Senate joined the House to pass federal anti-lynching laws decades earlier – as at least seven U.S. presidents had sought – America's shameful racial history might look quite different. Lynching and segregationist state laws violently enforced the nation's racial divide, and the nation's racial scarring remains deep and lasting.
That's why the murder trial and Senate apology are important. Whatever justice can be sought, must be sought. Just as Nazi hunters still relentlessly pursue perpetrators of the Holocaust, Americans must continue to unmask the ugly truth of America's dishonorable period.
The Senate's apology is mostly a symbolic acknowledgment that lawmakers stymied efforts to stop the morally unjust, anonymous terrorism of Americans against other Americans. In hindsight, it is a shocking lack of courage. Likewise, the state's prosecution of Edgar Ray Killen isn't intended to send an old man to prison for his remaining years, but to fulfill the obligation to justice that the state of Mississippi failed to fulfill in the 1960s.
Lives cannot be reclaimed. Broken families cannot be restored. But shameful legacies must be confronted – and exorcised – even after all these years.
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Brownwood Human Rights Committee
Brownwood Texas

source: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/letterslist/?id=552