State Attorney General sues over alleged insult to African-Americans
By sgeissinger
Thursday, April 19th, 2007 at 2:33 pm in General.
In the wake of MediaNews reports on state park woes, state Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a lawsuit today against the Tulare County Board of Supervisors to block construction of mega-dairies adjacent to a nationally historic African-American state park.
African-Americans say supervisors insulted them by approving a project that would cast a stench over Allensworth park, founded by an escaped slave turned famed Army officer.
On Wednesday, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, called on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to have the lawsuit filed.
At the same time, an Assembly committee advanced a bill pushing the proposed mega-dairies back at least another mile.
The state lawsuit accuses local officials of ignoring a report on the proposed projects’ damage to the environment and effect on Allensworth.
Brown, a former governor, was most recently mayor of Oakland, which has a large African-American population.
On the other side, Tulare and other counties were already threatening to file their own lawsuit, based on government confiscation of land without compensation.
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