North Carolina’s Republican Senator Elizabeth Dole introduced an amendment to name an HIV/AIDS relief bill after her predecessor, the recently deceased Jesse Helms.
Say what???? Is this bitch hopped up on meds and totally cuhrazeee?????
Helms was a foe of HIV/AIDS prevention, research and treatment. And that’s putting it mildly!
Here are some highlights from Helms’ notable moments in AIDS relief:
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1987 described AIDS prevention literature as “so obscene, so revolting, I may throw up.”
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1988 vigorously opposed the Kennedy-Hatch AIDS research bill, saying, “There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy.”
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1995 said (in opposition to refunding the Ryan White Act) that the government should spend less on people with AIDS because they got sick due to their “deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct.”
Jesse Helms, the man who in 2002 announced that he’d changed his mind about AIDS funding for Africa, but not for American gays, because homosexuality “is the primary cause of the doubling and redoubling of AIDS cases in the United States.”
Is Senator Dole going out of her way to insult the honorable work of AIDS researchers and activists?
If we were a citizen of North Carolina, we’d be concerned/embarrassed that Lizzie Dole was our rep.
Smells like someone with bad judgement to us!
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