U.S. Senator Wants to Revoke Funding From City of Berkeley,

**ronin** · Associate Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 1

for Vote to Boot Marines

February 02, 2008

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., says the City of Berkeley, Calif., no longer deserves federal money.

DeMint was angered after learning that the Berkeley City Council voted this week to tell the U.S. Marine Corps to remove its recruiting station from the city's downtown.

"This is a slap in the face to all brave service men and women and their families," DeMint said in a prepared statement. "The First Amendment gives the City of Berkeley the right to be idiotic, but from now on they should do it with their own money."

"If the city can’t show respect for the Marines that have fought, bled and died for their freedom, Berkeley should not be receiving special taxpayer-funded handouts," he added.

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**Tumbleweed** · Admin Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 4

Jim DeMint has no right to tell anyone, anywhere, how to deal with where these recruiting stations are allowed to be.

**Coyote** · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:01 pm Post subject:

I didn't think any town could bar recruiting stations. I can understand trying to keep them out of high schools, but how can they keep them out of a public city???

**ronin** · Associate Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 1

Segep wrote:

I didn't think any town could bar recruiting stations. I can understand trying to keep them out of high schools, but how can they keep them out of a public city???

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