Rep. John Campbell won’t rescind a bill that would cut nearly $2 million in earmarks to Berkeley, despite the City Council’s amending of a resolution that referred to a Marine Corps recruitment center in the city as “uninvited and unwelcome intruders.”
The original resolution encouraged “all people to avoid cooperation with the Marine Corps recruiting station,” and applauded those who “may volunteer to impede, passively or actively, by nonviolent means, the work of any military recruiting office located in the city of Berkeley.” The City Council members reaffirmed Tuesday night that they support American troops abroad and weren’t attempting to “ostracize” them, but instead sought to limit recruitment efforts on behalf of what they characterized as an “illegal” war.
Campbell had earlier acknowledged the possibility of the council altering its position, but declined to state whether he would withhold the bill he hoped would send a message to the people and elected officials of Berkeley.
