"United Native America has filed a congressional ethics complaint against California congresswoman Diane Watson before the U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. The group is also drafting a letter of ethics violations against Watson to be sent to the California Democrat Party and National Democrat Party leadership.
Congresswoman Watson has overstated and overstepped her elected authority and moral obligation with house bill 2824. She has misrepresented the Oklahoma Cherokee Nation and it's citizens to include verbal and written public statements that dehumanize citizens of the Cherokee Nation. Our Indian sons and daughters today are fighting terrorism world wide to save our nation. Native Americans are united in calling for Congresswoman Watson's resignation.
From the time Congresswoman Watson introduced house bill 2824 in June of this year calling for the termination of federal recognition of the Oklahoma Cherokee Nation over it's citizenship requirement vote held in March, 2007 she has embarked on a polical extremist nationwide crusade against the citizens of the Cherokee Nation by distorting their true history. In an October press report titled "Jim Crow in Indian Country", Watson further shows her willingness to distort the Cherokee Nations history. Watson's public statements are in clear violation of congressional ethics standerds and elected responsibility to represent all of her constituents equaly.
Watson's uncalled for actions against the American Indian community has clearly brought disgrace and shame on her office and the congressional governing body, that in itself calls for censorship of the representative covering ethics violations. Congresswoman Watson's personal actions against the Cherokee Nation and its’ citizens clearly shows Americans that her bill 2824 is a blue print of the "U.S. Jim Crow Laws" used against Indians."
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Mike Graham: Indian Group Files Congressional Ethics Complaint Against Congresswoman Watson
(WebCommentary 11/28)
Cherokee-Related Legislation:
H.R.2786
| H.R.2895
| H.R.2824
| H.R.3002
BIA Letters:
August
9, 2007 | July
11, 2007 | June
22, 2007 | May 21, 2007 | March 28, 2007 | August 30, 2006
Sovereign Immunity Court Decision:
Vann v. Kempthorne (December 19,
2006)
Cherokee Nation Judicial Appeals Tribunal Decision in Freedmen
Case:
Allen
v. Cherokee Nation (March 7, 2006)
Relevant Links:
Cherokee Nation - http://www.cherokee.org
Freedmen
Of The Five Civilized Tribes - http://www.freedmen5tribes.com
Freedmen
Conference - http://www.freedmenconference.com
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