Posted on 05/29/2011 4:51:38 PM PDT by Libloather
NAACP leader slams budget; lawmaker wants apology
By Renee Elder, Associated Press
Published: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 12:00 p.m. MDT
RALEIGH, N.C. — The president of North Carolina's NAACP said Wednesday his group will continue vigorous protests against a Republican-backed budget bill, doing whatever it takes to turn the public's attention to polices he said represent a "moral crisis" for the state.
The Rev. William Barber's comments came a day after he and six others were arrested following a vocal protest in the House gallery.
"The House budget was shamefully passed with debilitating cuts to education, health care and other vital resources," Barber said Wednesday morning after being released from jail. "We must challenge what is going on."
Some activists are unhappy with a number of legislative actions passed by the GOP majority this year, but the passage of a House budget bill most provoked their ire. The NAACP and affiliated groups charge that cuts in the proposed spending plan will disproportionately hurt poor and middle class North Carolinians.
On Wednesday, Barber chastised legislators for cutting programs for poor residents while failing to close tax loopholes for corporations and the rich, another option for helping to balance the spending plan
Meanwhile, House Speaker Thom Tillis said he wants Barber to apologize for disrupting lawmakers.
"I do think that Rev. Barber owes this House an apology for his disrespectful and disruptive behavior," Tillis, R-Mecklenburg, said during a news conference Wednesday.
Tillis said he would be willing to meet with members of the NAACP, but not Barber or the six arrested with him. "It would be inappropriate of me to meet with somebody that's the subject of a police investigation, I would think," he said.
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>>”The House budget was shamefully passed with debilitating cuts to education, health care and other vital resources<<
Translation: 40 ozers.
The fed should not be messing with education, health car or anything else that isn’t in defense or support of the UNited States and the states themselves. That is why we have States.
But they’re liberals.....and they are on the side of the angels. /sarc
besides, they need to get paid.
I assume their heirs never expect to have any money to pay the bill.
No Freebies No Peace!
Have these peckerwoods declared habitual felons and then they will get payed.
NAACP why is this hateful bunch of crap, still allowed in our society?
Here is your apology
I am really sorry you have such a big mouth with nothing useful coming out of it
Barber was one of those helping to lead the lynch mob against the falsely-accused lacrosse players.
(Note that the NC NAACP was founded in part by Travis V. Mangum (in 1909 IIRC)—and that the father of false-accuser Crystal Mangum was also named Travis V. Mangum—leading people to wonder if there was a family relationship.)
The NC NAACP broke with decades of practice in that case to demand that there NOT be a change of venue for a racially charged case; and that a gag order be imposed (preventing the defense from countering Nifong’s public shows); and that there be a racial quota to the jury.
Since then, his organization has NOT backed badly needed judicial reforms in North Carolina (like a speedy trial law, keeping transcripts of grand jury sessions, giving every defending the right to a probable cause hearing, and much more) which were shown to be sadly lacking by the attempted lacrosse frame-up.
However, it HAS supported give-away legislation and
continually stirred the racial pot.
Whatever it now stands for, it certainly isn’t equal justice, judicial reforms,
equal treatment, or for those falsely accused because of their gender, class, and ethnicity.
Barber’s a humongous boil on the backside of the state of NC. I’ll leave it at that.
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