Mobile senator in town to campaign for Wayne Parker
Republican congressional candidate Wayne Parker thanked U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions for coming to Huntsville to campaign for him on Monday, and then he thanked him for voting against the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street.
"Thank you for saying no," Parker said at a Monday luncheon at his campaign headquarters where Sessions was the guest of honor. "There are better ways to solve this problem."
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Sessions, along with Alabama's other Republican senator, Richard Shelby of Tuscaloosa, were among the 25 no votes on the bailout; 74 voted yes. The House passed the Senate's version of the bailout bill on Friday, 263 to 171.
Sessions, who is facing Democratic state Sen. Vivian Figures, D-Mobile, in November, said the bailout "is an unwise intervention of massive proportions." He said that Wall Street investors think of themselves as "free market guys when they're getting rich," but when things start going wrong, they become "socialists."