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Representatives who ride the short bus

By tj

This is really chapping my @$$. I consider myself a fairly reasonable, moderate political individual. Yet I live in a town that's hell bent on letting everyone know it can out-liberal the next town. The most recent example of our wonderful city council's antics is the anti-Marines resolution.

My intent with this post should be made very clear: I don't appreciate the city council spending time taking stances on issues far beyond its purpose, while ignoring much more pressing issues such as the fact I can't walk down Shattuck without getting hit up 10 times by "street people" (or seeing them relieve themselves on the rapidly vacating store fronts).

However, this mess just got elevated to a whole new level. Not to be out-done, choice Republicans in DC have banded together and introduced parallel bills in the House and the Senate (dubbed "Semper Fi Act of 2008") that seek to fiscally punish the City of Berkeley.

How you may ask? De-funding two institutions: (1) UC Berkeley and (2) a group that provides food to school children. The stupidity of attacking two unrelated targets not responsible or connected to the City of Berkeley requires far more space than this blog post could provide.

For the article, check here.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).