Bush plans to dump civil rights panel chief

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By Johanna Neuman
Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
Published December 5, 2004

WASHINGTON -- President Bush plans to name a new chairman and vice chairman of the Civil Rights Commission as early as Monday, a move that could end the tumultuous reign of its current chairwoman, Mary Frances Berry.

Berry, who has been a member of the commission for 24 of its 47 years, has been a bane to presidents who tried to fire or dodge her, and she has been the subject of repeated Government Accountability Office reports alleging mismanagement

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On Wednesday, Berry and Reynoso issued a stinging attack on Bush's civil rights record, saying "the spiraling demise of hope for social justice and healing has deepened over the past four years."

The commission had not approved their report, and opponents saw it as less a statement about Bush's record than a comment on Berry's.

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[chicagojoe]

1. Does this surprise anyone?

[acmavm]

2. Uh, no. I'm surprised that he doesn't create a new position. Someone

could be appointed to the panel on Uncivil Rights. They could be the Director of Going Back to the Fifties Descrimination Panel.

[louis-t]

5. Uh, yeah, he could appoint a KKK member

to head the 'Civil Rights Initiative'. Yeah, yeah, that would work.

[Karenina]

8. Is David Duke available?

[Helga Scow Stern]

3. Silencing a governmental critic of voter disenfranchisement.

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But the agency's influence sometimes has been greater than its size. After the 2000 elections, the commission's report on disenfranchised voters in Florida was one of the forces that propelled Congress to enact reforms.

Citing court precedents, the White House says the terms of Berry and Vice Chairman Cruz Reynoso expire at midnight Sunday. Berry says commission documents show that her appointment expires Jan. 21.



I sent this right along to the international election monitors and to Danish Reporter.

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[Dover]

4. And will the Dems stand up for Berry or be silent like they were in 2000

with regards to the complaints about the voter fraud? Just home much do Democrats want to preserve this democracy?

[reprobate]

6. Just as long as their campaign contributions keep coming in.

Or haven't you heard that the DLC, a wholey owned subsidiary of the RNC, is in control of the party now.

How else could a candidate for the office of president run with a campaign that was, in its most important plank, the iraq problem, NO DIFFERENT than the incumbant. How was he supposed to win a race as an unknown when there was No differential between his solutions and the known candidate's. This was a race doomed to failure from the start. In fact, I would say it was designed to fail. Was Kerry the Manchurian Candidate? It certainly looks that way.

[lynx rufus]

7. There shall be silence, of course

if a Democrat speaks up, a puke says 'tut, tut, tut,' and
that is the end of the discussion.

[Judi Lynn]

9. She was simply left out there hanging all alone, with only the voice

of that monstrous hag, Republican Abigail Thernstrom bitching and hacking away at the hard work they were undertaking.

Looks as if you have to renounce your human identity to become a Republican. Thernstrom, as with every other Republican, surely built a case for that belief.

Mary Frances Berry was handed a horrendous job, and learned there would be no reinforments coming along to help. She was strictly on her own.

[Endangered Specie]

10. Nacht Der Langen Messer...

gotta clean out the government of non-party loyalists and replace with yes-men.