The video shows McCain apologizing for opposing a holiday for King with boos and interruptions from the audience. It doesn’t help that he has a black man holding an umbrella for him.
“I was wrong and eventually realized that, in time to give full support for a state holiday in Arizona,” he said. “We can all be a little late sometimes in doing the right thing, and Dr. King understood this about his fellow Americans.”
According to a press release from the DNC, in 1983, McCain voted against passing a bill to designate the third Monday of every January as a federal holiday in honor of King. In 1987, Arizona Gov. Even Mecham rescinded “what he termed an illegal executive order by his predecessor, Democrat Bruce Babbitt, to establish a state holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” When asked about Mecham’s decision to rescind the holiday, “McCain said that he felt Mecham was correct in rescinding the holiday.” In 1994, McCain voted to prohibit federal funds for the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission, which was established in 1984 “to encourage the observance of King’s birthday.”
McCain said HE REVERSED HIS DECISION AROUND 1990 AFTER HE LEARNED MORE ABOUT KING’S ACHIEVEMENTS. His home state of Arizona was the second to the last state to recognize the holiday. Shout out to CL Readers Kimberly and Diabolical for the info.
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