First Slice 12-24-13: Georgia Congressmen, civil rights leaders protest Obama judicial nominations
Guys, who glued all the PARKatlanta meters shut?
Metro Atlanta elected officials and civil rights activists including U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Atlanta; U.S. Rep. David Scott, D-Atlanta; Rev. Joseph Lowery, and C.T. Vivian yesterday spoke out against President Barack Obama’s recent judicial nominees to Georgia’s federal bench. “I think they overlooked how explosive the issue is in Georgia,” Lowery, who’s upset over the picks’ lack of diversity, said. “And I think they now regret that they didn’t give it closer attention.”
Some anonymous rabble-rousers have glued shut more than 50 PARKatlanta meters in Old Fourth Ward and other surrounding neighborhoods.
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