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Some on [Houston city] council leave after remark by Sekula-Gibbs
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| Last Edited | DFWDem Sep 28, 2006 01:55pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Houston Chronicle |
| News Date | Thursday, September 28, 2006 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Several City Council members walked out on Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs Wednesday, saying her rhetoric against a police policy on illegal immigrants exploited for political gain the death of an officer whose funeral they had just attended.
The symbolic move was the only time in recent memory that a group of council members left the chambers to protest a colleague's comments.
"I was embarrassed to be in the room with somebody talking like that," said Councilwoman Toni Lawrence, a Republican and one of the first to leave.
"There's a lot of things I disagree with, maybe the way immigration is handled, federally, and this is not the time to make a comparison." |
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