Mother of God, when did the Democrats' "big tent" policy begin to include embracing raving lunatics?
Other than that, if there's a vacancy then it's Bush's to fill. That's the law. He doesn't need a marshall.
I think it's time for this pointless, DemonRAT star-chamber government "Commission"
to be disbanded and parasites like Berry be thrown out of the government.
This looks like a great opportunity to point out that the Civil Rights Commission is a servant of the American people, not the personal fiefdom of Ms. Berry.
Send in the Marshals. We did it to George Wallace in 1962. There is no reason not to use them with against another racist like Berry.
Who on God's Green Earth does this b*tch think she is, anyway??? She (yep; Clinton appointee, black, ultra-racist/feminist..........anyone expect anything different?) serves at the "pleasure" of the President of the United States.
If I was President, that wench would be escorted by armed Federal marshalls out of her office first thing in the morning........with news crews outside. She'd be half-carried, marshall on each arm, with a piss-ant cardboard box full of her personal belongings..........and dumped onto the street. There, she'd be met by a Federal prosecutor who'd server her sorry black a** with papers to appear in court to answer charges...........
Mary Frances Berry (Chairperson)
Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought
Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Independent
Cruz Reynoso (Vice Chairperson)
Professor of Law
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Democrat
Yvonne Y. Lee
Yvonne Lee Consultants
San Francisco, California
POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Democrat
Victoria Wilson
Vice President and Associate Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Vice President, PEN Executive Board
New York, New York
POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Independent
Congressional Appointees (4):
Christopher Edley, Jr.
Professor, Harvard Law School
Founding Co-Director, The Civil Rights Project,
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Democrat
Elsie M. Meeks
Executive Director, Lakota Fund
Co-owner and operator of Lone Creek Store in Wanblee, South Dakota
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Democrat
Russell G. Redenbaugh
Partner and Director, Cooke & Bieler, Inc.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Independent
Abigail Thernstrom
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
New York City, New YOrk
POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Republican
Staff Director (Presidential Appointee):
The United States Commission on Civil Rights is an independent, bipartisan, fact-finding agency of the executive branch first established under the Civil Rights Act of 1957. On November 30, 1983, a new Commission was established under the Civil Rights Act of 1983 (P.L. 98-183). Although the Commission's duties and powers are the same under the Act of 1983 as those of the previous Commission, its membership changed from six to eight Commissioners, four of whom are appointed by the President and four by the Congress.
Duties
The Commission's duties are:
To investigate complaints alleging that citizens are being deprived of their right to vote by reason of their race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin, or by reason of fraudulent practices.
To study and collect information relating to discrimination or a denial of equal protection of the laws under the Constitution because of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin, or in the administration of justice.
To appraise Federal laws and policies with respect to discrimination or denial of equal protection of the laws because of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin, or in the administration of justice.
To serve as a national clearinghouse for information in respect to discrimination or denial of equal protection of the laws because of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin.
To submit reports, findings, and recommendations to the President and Congress.
To issue public service announcements to discourage discrimination or denial of equal protection of the laws.
Powers
In furtherance of its fact-finding duties, the Commission may hold hearings and issue subpoenas (within the State in which the hearing is being held and within a 100-mile radius of the site) for the production of documents and the attendance of witnesses at such hearings. It maintains State advisory committees, and consults with representatives of Federal, State, and local governments, and private organizations. Since it lacks enforcement powers that would enable it to apply specific remedies in individual cases, it refers the many complaints it receives to the appropriate Federal, State, or local government agency or private organization for action.
Organization
The United States Commission on Civil Rights is composed of eight Commissioners: four appointed by the President and four by Congress. Not more than four members shall at any one time be of the same political party.
The President also designates the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson from among the Commission's members with the concurrence of a majority of the Commission's members.
The Commissioners serve 6-year terms. No Senate confirmation is required. The President may remove a member of the Commission only for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings (except during August) and convene several times a year to conduct hearings, conferences, consultations, and briefings.
Staff
A full-time Staff Director oversees the day-to-day activities of the Commission. The Staff Director is appointed by the President with the concurrence of a majority of the Commission's members, and serves at the pleasure of the President.
Except for the Staff Director, all Commission personnel, including part-time consultants, must be selected and appointed in accordance with Federal civil service regulations and job classification standards.
The Commission has 51 advisory committees--one for each State and the District of Columbia. Each is composed of citizens familiar with local and State civil rights issues. The members serve without compensation and assist the Commission with its fact-finding, investigative, and information dissemination functions.
Individual members of these committees are recommended by the regional director of their area, approved by the Staff Director, and voted upon at a regular meeting of the Commissioners. Their term of office is 2 years, but they can be reappointed.
Library
The Commission's Robert S. Rankin Civil Rights Memorial Library is located at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. This clearinghouse of civil rights information contains 50,000 reference works, including 150 civil rights and minority issues journals, periodicals, legal journals, and newspapers, 4,000 reels of microfilm and files of microfiche, and a comprehensive collection of reports, transcripts, and civil rights texts. The library also has Internet access.
These facilities are used extensively by members of Congress, government agencies, private groups, and individuals.
The Library is open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Since its inception in 1957, the Commission has published more than 70 statutory reports (those containing recommendations to Congress and the President) in addition to over 160 other public reports and studies on civil rights matters. Its State advisory committees have produced more than 240 published reports on issues of local and regional concern. These reports and studies are available to the public free of charge.
Most of the agency's publications are on file in designated regional depository libraries for government publications throughout the country. A Catalog of Publications published by the Commission is available to the public free of charge.
Information
Further information on the Commission may be obtained by contacting the Commission headquarters at:
624 9th Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20425
(or contact the regional office in your area)
For information about publications, contact:
Library, USCCR
(202) 376-8128
For Congressional inquiries, contact:
Congressional Affairs Unit, USCCR
(202) 376-8317
For Press inquiries, contact:
Public Affairs Unit, USCCR
(202) 376-8312
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I agree. He'd better not back down.
From the foreward of the "Plum Book":
This publication contains data (as of September 1, 2000) on over 7,000 Federal civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government that may be subject to noncompetitive appointment (e.g., positions such as agency heads and their immediate subordinates, policy executives and advisors, and aides who report to these officials). The duties of many such positions may involve advocacy of Administration policies and programs and the incumbents usually have a close and confidential working relationship with the agency head or other key officials.
The Father and Son Y-Indian Guide Program was developed in a deliberate way to support the father's vital family role as teacher, counselor and friend to his son. The program was initiated by Harold S. Keltner, St. Louis YMCA director, as an integral part of association work. In 1926 he organized the first tribe in Richmond Heights, Mo., with the help of his good friend, Joe Friday, an Ojibway Indian, and William H. Hefelfinger, chief of the first Y-Indian Guide tribe. Inspired by his experiences with Joe Friday, who was his guide on fishing and hunting trips to Canada, Harold Keltner initiated a program of parent-child experiences that now involves over a quarter of a million children and adults annually in the YMCA.
While Keltner was on a hunting trip in Canada one evening, Joe Friday said to his colleague as they sat around a blazing campfire: "The Indian father raises his son. He teaches his son to hunt, track, fish, walk softly and silently in the forest, know the meaning and purpose of life and all he must know, while the white man allows the mother to raise his son." These comments struck home, and Harold Keltner arranged for Joe Friday to work with him at the St. Louis YMCA.
The Ojibway Indian spoke before groups of YMCA boys and dads in St. Louis, and Keltner discovered that fathers, as well as boys, had a keen interest in the traditions and ways of the American Indian. At the same time, being greatly influenced by the work of Ernest Thompson Seton, great lover of the outdoors, Harold Keltner conceived the idea of a father and son program based upon the strong qualities of American Indian culture and life--dignity, patience, endurance, spirituality, feeling for the earth and concern for the family. Thus, the Y-Indian Guide Program was born.
The rise of the Family YMCA following World War II, the genuine need for supporting young girls in their personal growth and the demonstrated success of the father-son program, in turn nurtured the development of YMCA parent-daughter groups. The mother-daughter program, now called Y-Indian Maidens, was established in South Bend, Ind., in 1951; three years later father-daughter groups, which are now called Y-Indian Princesses, emerged in the Fresno YMCA of California.
In 1980, the YMCA of the USA recognized the Y-Indian Braves Program for mothers and sons; thus completing the four programs and combinations in Y-Indian Guide Programs.
Although some Y-Indian Guide groups had extended their father-son experiences beyond the first three grades from the beginning, it was not until 1969 that the Y-Trail Blazers plan was recognized by the National Long House Executive Committee for sons 9 to 11 years old and their fathers. Trail Maidens, Trail Mates and Co-Ed Trail Blazers have also been developed and recognized in YMCAs across the country. The Y-Indian Guide Program has been expanded to include preschoolers and their parents in the Y-Papoose Program developed by the Central Florida YMCAs.
This could be his "airtraffic controller's moment"
Sieze the moment, Mr. President