More on Lamar (and Bullet Trains)

This blogger called Lamar Alexander's office and received an unsatisfactory answer as to why the senator didn't co-sponsor the anti-lynching resolution (which was sponsored by 86 of his 99 colleagues).

You know, I seriously considered voting for Lamar in 2002. But after hearing his opponent, Bob Clement, address a Tying Nashville Together meeting a few days before the election, I changed my mind. Clement (who knew that he would lose and was getting desperate) promised to push for a nationwide network of bullet trains (like the ones they have in Europe and Japan). I knew that Clement's idea would not come to fruition; but it was a good idea nonetheless, and neither he nor Lamar had said or done anything else to secure my vote. Now that I think about it, I dressed as Bob Clement for Halloween that year.