House rejects naming post office after Berkeley activist

[Newsjock]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/27/state/n175626D92.DTL

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- House Republicans on Tuesday rejected a Democratic resolution to name a post office in Berkeley, Calif., after a longtime local activist and city councilwoman, saying 94-year-old Maudelle Shirek doesn't represent American values.

The 215-190 vote was an unusual refusal of an honor that's normally routine. House rules allow lawmakers to propose renaming post offices in their district, and fellow lawmakers usually agree without debate.

But Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who led the opposition, said Shirek's background "sets her apart from, I will say, the most consistent of American values."

King gave no details in a speech on the House floor beyond citing Shirek's support for freeing Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. In an interview later he said Shirek had an "affiliation with the Communist Party," citing her sponsorship of a Marxist library.

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[GRLMGC]

1. It's freaking Berkeley!

Its only appropriate to name the post office after her if she's an important part of the community. These motherfuckers are totally whacked.

[Cobalt Violet]

2. Hey I know ! Why don't they name it after Reagan!

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[GRLMGC]

3. They name EVERYTHING after Reagan

Whenever I go home, I have to drive on the Ronald Reagan freeway and pass his bastard Presidential library

[ElectroPrincess]

4. Oh gosh we already got an Airport after the old boy ...

That's one "tell" between the Democrats and Republicans who converse in the slug lines on the beltway.

The Republicans pronounce the full, "Reagan National Airport," while us Democrats ALWAYS just say "NATIONAL Airport."

We don't need no more stinking stuff named after the guy who started the corporate take-over of our beloved Government. Nope, no way!

[acmejack]

5. I think the Reagan sewage lift station would have a fine ring to it!

[ElectroPrincess]

6. Yes, that's for the ole' Pukes "catapulting the propaganda" - Salute!

:patriot:

[renegade000]

8. yup, i make a point of saying

WASHINGTON NATIONAL airport...

[struggle4progress]

12. I like to call it Ronald McDonald. eom

[AlCzervik]

7. When was the last time a Name the post office was rejected? I've watched

cspan for 10 years and i can't remember that ever happening.

[brentspeak]

9. Agreed that the idea of freeing Abu-Jamal is ludicrous

As that individual is 100% guilty.

But supporting that killer's release is probably just an elderly mistake on the part of Shirek, hardly the sum of her entire life.

Steve King's praise of Joseph McCarthy as "an American hero" tells me all I ever need to know about him. Moran.

[IndianaGreen]

10. I think we must stop the portraits of white slave owners on the currency

How's that as a retort to that Iowan rightwing puke, Steve King.

[slay]

11. Hrmm.. perhaps these so called "American Values" are TOTALLY FUCKED

"American Values" is one of those Republican code words like "family values" that they use to manipulate people into thinking Republicans must be good - I mean only good people are "for" America and families so Republicans must be good too right? Evil bastards. :mad: