Sunday, January 17, 2010
Drug Testing Of Welfare Applicants Draws Criticism
WEST VIRGINIA...
A critic of a bill that would drug-test welfare applicants calls the proposal "racist". In a strongly worded statement on the drug-testing proposal, Delegate Sally Susman, D-Raleigh, called the plan expensive and "racially profiled testing" of the poor. The plan's sponsor, Delegate Craig Blair, R-Berkeley, immediately called for Susman to resign. He said he was outraged and appalled by Susman's statement and said race never entered his mind when drafting the bill, which has yet to be introduced in the House. Blair's wife is mixed race, he said, and Blair's father-in-law is black.
A critic of a bill that would drug-test welfare applicants calls the proposal "racist". In a strongly worded statement on the drug-testing proposal, Delegate Sally Susman, D-Raleigh, called the plan expensive and "racially profiled testing" of the poor. The plan's sponsor, Delegate Craig Blair, R-Berkeley, immediately called for Susman to resign. He said he was outraged and appalled by Susman's statement and said race never entered his mind when drafting the bill, which has yet to be introduced in the House. Blair's wife is mixed race, he said, and Blair's father-in-law is black.
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