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ACLU closing San Jose office in budget cut
San Jose Mercury News ^ | 5/12/10 | Sean Webby

Posted on 05/12/2010 4:32:28 PM PDT by SmithL

The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California is scheduled to shutter its office in San Jose next week. But officials say the organization will maintain a local role in advocating for police accountability.

Both employees who have been working at the office at 111 N. Market St. are being laid off.

The ACLU, which works to protect constitutional liberties, decided to close the office, opened in 2006, due to budget cuts, according to associate director Kelli Evans.

"San Jose and Santa Clara County are critical regions for ACLU work in Northern California,'' said Evans, a former civil rights trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: aclu; budget; budgetcrunch; closing; cut; office; sanjose
Oh well!
1 posted on 05/12/2010 4:32:28 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Something good out this economy.


2 posted on 05/12/2010 4:34:10 PM PDT by ABQHispConservative (A good Blue Dog is an unelected Blue Dog. Ditto Rino's!)
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To: SmithL

>>”San Jose and Santa Clara County are critical regions for ACLU work in Northern California,’’
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that’s because you can swim in the Kool Aid in those regions..


3 posted on 05/12/2010 4:34:31 PM PDT by max americana
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To: SmithL

Thank God Almighty. May the rest of their offices close.


4 posted on 05/12/2010 4:36:48 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: SmithL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZuOgEptHcU
“Dionne Warwick: Do you know the way to San Jose?”


5 posted on 05/12/2010 4:43:45 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: SmithL

At least it’s a start in the right direction...


6 posted on 05/12/2010 4:49:56 PM PDT by TXnMA (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!)
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To: SmithL

great news, now just hundreds more to go. lol


7 posted on 05/12/2010 4:51:08 PM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: SmithL

Someone needs to sue the ACLU and force them to keep the SJ office open indefinitely . Social Justice for all!

lolol


8 posted on 05/12/2010 4:58:54 PM PDT by ResearchMonkey (Enlightenment© being diagnosed.)
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To: ResearchMonkey

I think the two employees should take to the streets and riot, just like the unions did in Greece.


9 posted on 05/12/2010 5:03:30 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: SmithL

Now that’s what I call “Hope & Change.”


10 posted on 05/12/2010 5:13:39 PM PDT by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has it limits.)
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To: SmithL
Both Progressive Insurance and George Soros' checks bounced?
11 posted on 05/12/2010 6:09:53 PM PDT by Does so (ObamaCare...I pay for medical-marijuana claims by millions of Americans? 'Guess I do now.)
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To: SmithL

Looks like one of Bernie Madoff’s “tiny time pills” just went off. (Many of the ACLU’s contributors had invested with him.)


12 posted on 05/12/2010 7:09:27 PM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: SmithL

“Both employees.” LOL


13 posted on 05/12/2010 7:59:10 PM PDT by rae4palin (RESIST--REPEAL--IMPEACH)
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