Dingel tells Connerly to "go back home and stay there''

[E. Blackadder]

From Congress Daily, via the corner

Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., this week slammed American Civil Rights Coalition head Ward Connerly and demanded the anti-affirmative action conservative quit his efforts to overturn a University of Michigan diversity policy. In a Wednesday letter, Dingell warns Connerly to " go home and stay there," arguing Michigan has "no need for itinerant publicity seekers, non-resident troublemakers or self-aggrandizing out-of-state agitators. You have created enough mischief in your own state [California] to last a lifetime."

The blistering attack comes on the heels of a Supreme Court ruling upholding the University of Michigan rule, which allows the law school to make student body diversity a consideration in its admissions policies. Connerly was vaulted to national prominence among conservatives when he opposed the University of California's affirmative action policies in the late 1990s, breaking ranks with other black business and political leaders in the state.

and beating them, too. I wonder why that wasn't mentioned. :P

[2pac Shakur]

When will Bush do something about the other racist form of affirmative action - legacy?
That'd show Bush was seriously concerned about fairness.
I cracked up just typing that last line!

[Harry]

In a Wednesday letter, Dingell warns Connerly to " go home and stay there," arguing Michigan has "no need for itinerant publicity seekers, non-resident troublemakers or self-aggrandizing out-of-state agitators.

Isn't this what Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton always hear wherever they go? Hillary probably heard the same thing.

[The Mad Hatter]

Ditto to Harry's comment.

EB,

I don't understand what Dingel said that justifies you characterizing it as racist.

[NoName]

Originally Posted by Harry

Isn't this what Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton always hear wherever they go?

From sitting congressmen? No, not usually, I don't think.

[The Diabolical Biz Markie]

Originally Posted by 2Pac Shakur

When will Bush do something about the other racist form of affirmative action - legacy?
That'd show Bush was seriously concerned about fairness.
I cracked up just typing that last line!

Hey...where did that sig line come from? Just curious.

[E. Blackadder]

Originally Posted by hatter

Ditto to Harry's comment.

EB,

I don't understand what Dingel said that justifies you characterizing it as racist.

2Pac said that it's racist. Why can't you agree?


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And as for Dingell... Dingell??

Originally Posted by David Frum's Diary

Dingell, you may recall, decided when he still held a chairman’s gavel that his power over the nation’s trade and commerce entitled him to set himself up as arbiter of scientific truth – and launched from the halls of Congress a persecution of a Nobel-prize winning scientist that ought to have become, but never quite did become, a national scandal.

Oh, there is one good reason Jesse Jackson doesn't hear that sort of stuff. His name is Jesse Jackson, Jr.

[Harry]

Originally Posted by NoName

From sitting congressmen? No, not usually, I don't think.

Oh, well that's different. If you don't think so, it never happened.

[NoName]

Originally Posted by Harry

Oh, well that's different. If you don't think so, it never happened.

You are welcome to cite counterexamples if you can find them. I don't see how it would be possible, even in theory, for me to prove that it never happened, even if in fact it hasn't.

[Harry]

I admit that I don't follow JJ's career very closely. I just find it hard to believe that in all of his years of harassing the GOP that a congressman or other elected official hasn't criticized him. Maybe I'll google.