We lost one of our best senators.

ontheissues.org

Voted NO on recommending Constitutional ban on flag desecration.

Voted NO on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage.

Voted YES on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes.

Voted YES on loosening restrictions on cell phone wiretapping.

Voted YES on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation.

Voted YES on setting aside 10% of highway funds for minorities & women.

Voted NO on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business.

Voted NO on prohibiting same-sex marriage.

Voted YES on prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation.

This part stuck out:

Faced anti-Japanese discrimination after WWII

[After he spent 20 months in hospitals recovering from war wounds fighting with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Europe], on a layover in Oakland, California , on his way back to Hawaii, he decided he wanted to get, as he puts it “all gussied up so when I got home Mama and Papa would see me in all my glory. I went into an Oakland barbershop—four empty chairs—and a barber comes up to me and wants to know if I’m Japanese. Keep in mind I’m in uniform with my medals and ribbons and a hook for an arm. I said, ‘Well my father was born in Japan.’ The barber replied, ‘We don’t cut Jap hair.’ I was tempted to slash him with my hook,” [from the arm he had lost in battle], “but then I thought about all the work the 442nd had done and I just said, ‘I feel sorry for you,’ and walked out. I went home without a haircut.”