Comments on: No-go: Huja nixes Human Rights Commission unless government included under purview

By: Cville Eye

Cville Eye — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:57:42 +0000

quinn, Of course they can move their rejected complaints to the local level where they may have sympathetic friends.
Walt Heinecki, was he one of the ones that helped to drive the first black school superintendent (Dr. Griffin) out of here by complaining she had change an achievement assessment tool? Yes, according to an article int eh Progress the federal government has been quite effective in rectifying legitimate local complaints, but you know that Charlottesville feels it has to have anything some other locality has. Thus Council does not wish to let the idea go. After all, the idea came out of Council’s current pet project called the Dialogue on Race. If Council grants this $300k appropriation, that group will be encouraged to come back with even more requests for expenditures. Of course, as the scope of this commission widens in the future, its budget will continue to grow. After all, a political commission like this will never have a sunset clause like the old Social Development Commission did.

By: quinn

quinn — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:14:12 +0000

There is already enough state and federal agencies that handle issues that this committee would handle (plus let not forget the non-profit organziation that willhelp you too). Question if the state and federal rules again me does that give me the right to go to this committee. If I can and would they have power to reverse the decison made by the state or federal agencies….Plus even if it is DOA, will not prevent the city counsel and their follower to keep bring this issue up each and everyday.
The city counsel and their supporter are stuck in time. The civil war ended in 1865….. It is time to move on. Stop trying to undo all the nastey things that has happen in past. We are we are individual going to start holding ourselves as individual accountable for our own action. Instead of expecting government to do it. Please we don’t need another agency telling us how to live our lives….
Please.

By: Rob Schilling

Rob Schilling — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:46:53 +0000

Walt Heinecke's $300k Human Rights Commission may be DOA before Charlottesville City Council. See/hear Mayor Satyendra Huja's concern with government being exempted from Commission oversight: http://wp.me/p1x2fK-1DG.