The Civil Rights Record of the Bush Administration

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Here's a link to the report published in September by the Civil Rights Commission:

http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/bush/bush04.pdf

It's long, but the summary covers the last 5 pages. Here's the part I found most interesting:

The administration demonstrated strategic skills and proved, with the passage of NCLB, that it could work effectively with Congress to pass legislation that it deemed important. However, it did not apply the same might to election reform. Congress eventually passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), but not under any pressure from the administration. The administration seated the national oversight board 11 months behind schedule, setting into motion a series of delays that foiled the opportunity to reform the nation’s election systems and end widespread disenfranchisement. Despite the effort the administration applied to passing NCLB, neither it nor HAVA have been implemented fully successfully. NCLB has been plagued with unrealistic goals and timelines. In both, agencies so far have been without effective leadership and, more importantly, without sufficient funds to execute the tasks that the laws demand.

Are we surprised by any of this?

There's much more, too. Every minority and white woman needs to read this to see how this Administration doesn't give a shit about them except for their vote.

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