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Rachel King

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Last week, I noted the passing of Rachel King.  Today's Washington Post has this obituary: "Rachel King, 45; Lawyer for House Judiciary Subcommittee."Rachel Carol King, 45, a lawyer for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on crime and homeland security, died Aug. 25 of breast cancer at her summer home in Wayne, Maine. She lived in Washington. Ms. King moved to Washington in 1998 and was a legislative counsel and lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union, where she worked on limiting the scope of the USA Patriot Act. She joined the House subcommittee in 2007. Ms. King, a longtime activist against the death penalty, was a founding member of Takoma Village Cohousing in Northwest Washington, where she lived. She was born in Enid, Okla...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 05, 2008 (boomark / email).