[Howlin]

You're absolutely one of the best researchers on this board. There's another one due to leave this month. I see his plan; and I see why she's fighting tooth and nail to hang on to Victoria Wilson, who works for the company that will be publishing Bill's book.

[sandydipper]

"It's my ball - so if you don't play the way I tell you to - I'll take my ball and go home!"

The Civil Rights Commission like sooooooo many other gov't bureuacracies have no term limits. Once installed they go on for ever. Really why do we need the CRC or the BLM or the URRC or HUD or the MMA (milk market administration)etc. The freekin list goes on for 3 blue pages in the phone book.

Dissolve the commission is the answer and save the tax payer 3 or 4 million a year.

[kcvl]

Update: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:17:33 AM PST

White House says NAACP address was excessive
A White House spokesman said "there was a certain sense of going too far" in Mr. Bond's remarks comparing some Bush appointees to an Islamic regime that has harbored known terrorists. Kweisi Mfume attacks Bush’s judicial nominees, calling them "strange conservative-thinking individuals who want to set back the hands of time." Mary Frances Berry at an NAACP luncheon told of her thrill when she found out that Sen. James M. Jeffords of Vermont quit the Republican party in May, giving Democrats control of the Senate. "Before that, I was just wondering when Strom Thurmond was gonna die." Miss Berry received a standing ovation when she concluded her 35-minute speech. (Washington Times)

[kcvl]

The Civil Rights Commission is a supposedly "bipartisan" eight-member body created by the Congress. Four members of the commission are appointed by the President, four by Congress. The currently available web page of the Commission lists four members whose political affiliation is given as Democrat and three members who are listed as Independent:

Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman (Independent)
Cruz Reynoso (Democrat)
Yvonne Lee (Democrat)
Victoria Wilson (Independent)
Christopher Edley Jr. (Democrat)
Elsie Leeks (Democrat)
Russell Redenbaugh (Independent)

What we have here is a mixed bunch of professional race-activists, ranging from the commission chairwoman, a professor of "social thought" no less, who bears impeccable NAACP credentials; to Cruz Reynoso, currently law professor and former California Supreme Court justice whom the good citizens of that state promptly kicked off the court at the first opportunity; to Lakota reservation store owner Elsie Leeks. There's also a handicapped person on the team. (Hillary! has got to love this group; it meets all the diversity quota criteria she wanted to have reflected in all of the outgoing Administration's policy-making bodies, when she--and Bill--took over the White House.) We have one caveat: we can't seem to find out if the membership list is current, because Cruz's resume says he was appointed to a six-year term in April 1993.

The Commission's web page says that it's supposed to be bipartisan and that only four commission members can belong to the same political party. We assume the "independent" designations get around the latter requirement very nicely.

By the way, none of the three black witnesses the Commission called in Tallahassee was able to provide any evidence of voter harassment. All three were able to vote.