Posted on 12/04/2004 1:00:37 AM PST by kattracks
A House Judiciary subcommittee is investigating the finances of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, whose chairman, Mary Frances Berry, is in a dispute over whether her term ends this week or next month.
"We are looking into management, financials, contracting ...," confirmed Mindy Barry, oversight counsel for the Constitution, civil rights and property rights subcommittee, which has authorized but not yet used a subpoena to obtain the needed information.
The subpoena seeks "all documents referring to all contracts, specifically dealings with [public relations firms] McKinney and Associates and McKinney and McDowell; all documents regarding any fees paid to anyone," said a source familiar with the investigation. Earlier this year, the commission refused to cooperate in a Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation.
The subcommittee's inquiry was triggered by unsatisfactory reviews by the GAO, which sought to find out how the commission spent its money.[snip]
White House records show Ms. Berry's term is up tomorrow, conflicting with a Nov. 9 memo sent to commissioners asserting that "the next commissioner terms that will be ending are those of Chairperson Berry and Vice Chairperson Reynoso. According to long-standing commission records, those terms end on midnight, January 21, 2005."
[snip]
A similar disagreement over term dates was settled in a federal court in 2002, when Peter Kirsanow was appointed to replace commissioner Victoria Wilson, who was also placed on the commission to fill a partially completed term. The court ruled that Ms. Wilson's tenure was limited to the term she was appointed to fulfill.
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So, she remains controversial to the bitter end.
She is the Kofi Annan of the civil rights industry.
They'll probably have to send in US Marshalls to remove her from her seat. Heck, she'll start her own civil rights commission in exile!
Mary Frances Berry
You'll be happy to read this.
Send in Federal investigators NOW with a search warrant to seize all computers and financial records.
Is the McKinney of McKinney and Associates the former ex- and soon to be new Congressional Representative Cynthia McKinney?
C-Span Washington Journal gives this column a mention this morning.
5.56mm
She is just a fool blinded by her own hatred of whitey. People like her want to keep the fires of racism burning to have a job and promote the liberal agenda. I will be glad to see people of her mindset exposed and terminated from the government sugar tit. In her hate filled mind racism belongs to only the honkies, however in reality it is an equal opportunity employer. Ms Berry has that mental disorder called projection and is unfit to hold any government position on dealing with civil rights issues. Hopefully she will enjoy being escorted from her temporary abode of employment by the US Marshals Service. I have to presume she thought dinasaours keep regenerating in life.
I see one of the main problems, jimuh "the fool" carter. Klintoon was just icing on the cake for he is a fool too. Liberals/communists need to be remembered for their stupid and harmful actions to America.
Don't you know she was framed! Nixon had this set-up to see her heroic actions in civil rights go down in the flames of scandal. Ha Ha. "Let those chips fall where they may."
What took'em so long?
Sounds like the House isn't going to let her abuses get swept under the rug after she's gone.
Good on them.
"The bitch set me up!" Oops, wrong criminal Berry...Marion, Mary...whatever. Seems to be some rotten berries in the patch.
bttt
"What you talking 'bout, Marion?"
Who could ever forget.. that anti-American, British, Israel "UN conference" in Durban? Where Colin Powell and US walked out? Hmmm...... Of course, this was before the murderers murdered 3000 innocents in NY.
If there's a ping list for this investigation -- please add me! :)
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