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PUSH session hears call for Bush probe
July 21, 2002
BY ART GOLAB STAFF REPORTER
A call for a special prosecutor to investigate the president and top Republicans was among the notes sounded on the first day of Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference 2002 on Saturday.
U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said President Bush's trading in corporate stock and Vice President Dick Cheney's tenure as chief executive of Halliburton Co., as well as activities by other high-ranking administration figures, were questionable enough to merit a Ken Starr-type federal investigation.
In the meantime, Conyers, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, asked for "all of these officials to recuse themselves from any of the investigations and activities that are now going on with regard to these scandals."
The Rev. Jesse Jackson spent the first day of the five-day conference meeting with Democratic congressional and state legislators. They mapped out strategy on new legislation, such as Conyers' federal hate-crimes bill, as well as election tactics for November.
Jackson said the corporate accounting scandals could give Democrats enough of a boost to win control of Congress.
"The administration is up to its neck in involvement in the corporate corrupted culture," he said.
He also bashed the Bush administration for refusing to talk to civil rights groups. In protest, Jackson plans to hold a prayer vigil Sept. 13 at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C.
Former President Bill Clinton addresses the conference Tuesday.
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