Berkeley CA True to it's Roots, Refuses to Allow Marines to Recruit There

From Reuters:

And here the go with their favorite "Taxpayer Dollars" phrase, if I hear it one more time I'm going to be ill. Clearly, they are going to the greater part to the war. Scroll down to Bush's proposed increased spending blog.

Amanda Beck - Reuters

"BERKELEY, California - Officials in the famously liberal California town of Berkeley have stirred a national fuss by telling U.S. Marine Corps recruiters they aren't welcome anymore and by aiding those protesting against them.

That stance is too much for some Republican lawmakers, who are threatening to retaliate by stripping the counter-culture city of about $5.3 million in federal and state dollars.

"If the U.S. Marines are not good enough for Berkeley, neither are taxpayer dollars," Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said in a statement."

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1058361420080210

Of course it's a Texas Republican, (no offense to all you super-cool Texans out there)