A second National Public Radio official has resigned over the secret video in which an NPR fundraiser says that tea party people are “really xenophobic” and that “they’re seriously racist.” The person who made the comments, Ron Schiller, apologized and resigned Tuesday. Then today, Vivian Schiller (no relation, in photo), the CEO of NPR, also resigned. She had come under fire earlier for dismissing commentator Juan Williams after he made comments about being afraid of some Muslims. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said that the video, which was done by the same people who did the secret ACORN videos, “makes clear that taxpayer dollars should no longer be appropriated to NPR.”
President Obama’s decision to again try some terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and to indefinitely detain some prisoners is drawing a lot of unwanted (by the administration) comparisons to President Bush’s policy. It also has upset civil liberties groups. “The detention of Guantanamo detainees for nine years without charge or trial is a stain on America’s reputation that should be ended immediately, not given a stamp of approval,” said Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Rod Bremby, the former secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, has been appointed to lead Connecticut’s Department of Social Services. “I am truly thrilled to have Rod join the team,” Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said in a statement Tuesday. Bremby served as KDHE secretary from 2003 until 2010, the longest tenure of any secretary in the department’s history. Former Gov. Mark Parkinson pushed Bremby out of the job last November in what many viewed as an attempt to ensure approval of the new coal-fired power plant near Holcomb.
A second National Public Radio official has resigned over the secret video in which an NPR fundraiser says that tea party people are “really xenophobic” and that “they’re seriously racist.” The person who made the comments, Ron Schiller, apologized and resigned Tuesday. Then today, Vivian Schiller (no relation, in photo), the CEO of NPR, also resigned. She had come under fire earlier for dismissing commentator Juan Williams after he made comments about being afraid of some Muslims. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said that the video, which was done by the same people who did the secret ACORN videos, “makes clear that taxpayer dollars should no longer be appropriated to NPR.”
