A local spat gone national....sort of.
Sep. 28th, 2005 08:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aamusedinatx(D) Barbara Lee has been trying to get Berkeley's main post office named after a long time local activist and City Counsel Woman, Maudelle Shirek. This has to be voted on by Congress, of course, because Post Office buildings are Federal buildings (while the government still claims the USPS is "privatized".)
It was voted down along party lines after a Republican from Iowa said that Shirek was not consistent with American Values. I won't cut and paste the entire article here, because frankly I think it would be just another partisan spat except for this excerpt:
I'm just a bit young to have seen the televised hearings for HUAC in the late 50s early 60s but a HERO?
It was voted down along party lines after a Republican from Iowa said that Shirek was not consistent with American Values. I won't cut and paste the entire article here, because frankly I think it would be just another partisan spat except for this excerpt:
Lee, in a statement after the vote, blasted King, saying his "campaign of innuendo and unsubstantiated 'concern' is better suited to the era of Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover than today's House of Representatives."
To which King responded: "I think that if Barbara Lee would read the history of Joe McCarthy, she would realize that he was a hero for America."
I'm just a bit young to have seen the televised hearings for HUAC in the late 50s early 60s but a HERO?
