Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions has always been an unabashed conservative Republican. So when the Senate GOP leadership shelved the upcoming estate tax repeal vote in the wake of Katrina, he went into action.
Sessions embarked upon a campaign to find a Hurricane related death to make his case for the repeal of the estate tax. When called on his tactics by Time and the Birmingham News he backed off a little saying, "It was never a matter of big import to me. It was just a thought."
And just for the record the estate tax applied to only 410 estates in Alabama in 2003.
I recently blogged this as well ... http://alelections.blogspot.com