WTF?

Sen. Dole attempts to rename HIV/AIDS relief bill after Jesse Helms

The Huffington Post reports that Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) has introduced “an amendment to name an HIV/AIDS relief bill after the recently deceased Jesse Helms,” who was a “strident foe of HIV/AIDS prevention, research and treatment.”

Helms was notorious for his ignorant comments regarding HIV/AIDS. In 1987 he described “AIDS prevention literature as ‘so obscene, so revolting, I may throw up‘” and in 1995 Helms argued that “that the government should spend less on people with AIDS because they got sick due to their ‘deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct.’”

(Think Progress)
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Why would Dole do this? Obviously, Helms would not want to be associated with this - is this a posthumous "f'k you" to him or is this supposed to be some kind of "honor"?