Sister is too smart to do otherwise
Make your statement and move on to your next project because two-three weeks isn't worth the agita.
Quote of note:
"Given that the conclusion of my tenure is only a few weeks away, a legal challenge would be an unwise expenditure of resources," she wrote. "Therefore, I am resigning my position as commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights effective immediately."
Adviser on Civil Rights Quits, Declining Legal Fight for Job
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Published: December 8, 2004
Ending speculation that she would put up one last fight with a president, Mary Frances Berry, the chairwoman of the United States Civil Rights Commission, resigned yesterday, a day after President Bush appointed a new head of the advisory agency.
Ms. Berry, who has criticized Mr. Bush's civil rights record and earned a reputation for combativeness in nearly 25 years at the commission, said through a spokesman earlier in the week that she believed her term expired at midnight on Jan. 21. The White House on Monday, however, appointed a new chairman, Gerald A. Reynolds, a Missouri lawyer, and said Ms. Berry's term had expired Sunday.
In a letter to Mr. Bush, Ms. Berry stuck to her position but said she would step down to avoid a costly legal fight.
