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Friday, March 30, 2007
Coretta portrait proposal hopes looking dim
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A proposal to hang a portrait of Coretta Scott King in the state Capitol suffered another setback Friday morning when its sponsor failed to show up on time for a committee meeting on the resolution.
And now the fate of House Resolution 376 is unclear.
House Special Rules Committee Chairman Calvin Hill (R-Canton) held out the possibility it could get another chance in his committee, but he said he “wouldn’t want to hazard a guess” about the chances of it passing the Legislature this year.
Hill’s panel adjourned just moments before Rep. Roberta Abdul-Salaam (D-Riverdale) walked into meeting room Friday morning. She said she was late because of heavy traffic.
Abdul-Salaam caught Hill’s attention as he was leaving: “You are all finished?”
Hill responded: “We adjourned… We called the bill and you weren’t here. It’s seven minutes after. And we met at 8 o’clock. My committee members all left. They all had other meetings.”
Abdul-Salaam: “The traffic out there is horrendous. I got out of my car on Trinity [Avenue] and ran down here.”
Abdul-Salaam failed to show up at another Special Rules Committee hearing on her resolution on March 19, citing an illness.
Abdul-Salaam cried foul after the committee members left Friday morning. “They do not intend to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King,” she said in an interview. “It might embarrass them. It might make them look like they have a heart.”
Moments later, she added: “There is a mean spirit down here. There really is.”
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