kiss the US Civil Rights Agency goodby - they are being starved

[donsu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38307-2005Apr8.html


Civil Rights Agency Cuts Budget by 9%
Auditors Balk at Reviewing Books


The financially strapped U.S. Commission on Civil Rights voted yesterday to lay off employees, order a staff furlough and close two of six regional offices to save about $800,000.

The decision to cut about 9 percent of the budget was followed by news that at least four auditing firms had declined to examine the commission's financial affairs because of the poor conditions of its records and because the agency has not had an audit in 12 years, according to commission member Peter N. Kirsanow.

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Wade Henderson, executive director of the liberal Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, suggested that the Republican Congress starved the commission of funds so it could not fulfill its mission and is now blaming it for fiscal irresponsibility.

"I'm really troubled to hear the commission is furloughing and dismissing staff," Henderson said. "It's subterfuge for dismantling the professional staff of the commission so that it can't complete its work."
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I hope someone at the CRA is keeping a written history of this crime.

the criminal bushgang sicked the IRS on unions too.

and they are starving Washington, D.C. resident's social programs.

republican Gov. of Mo. just starved 100,000 people out of medicaid.

[journalist3072]

1. This makes me really angry

The US Commission on Civil Rights is being de-valued by the Republican controlled Congress. I absolutely think it was the Repug's intentions to financially starve the agency, so they can't do their job.

The question is: who do the American people turn to when they feel like their civil rights have been violated? Where is the recourse?

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Important! Thanks for this post, donsu -- nt