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vote from the black precincts
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Neal, who is seeking his
seventh term, narrowly defeated
' ; Epperson in November 1984.
; Neal received 51 percent of the
; vote, while Epperson had 49 peri
cent. Neal received 90 percent of
J the black vote in that election, he
said.
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"I have tried to earn support in
I the . black community," Neal
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skin color. I have tried to do what
is fair and reasonable for all peopleT"
Ronald T. Butler, Epperson's
press secretary, said that Neal
doesn't deserve to receive 90 percent
of the black vote in the
November elections. "What has
Steve Neal done for the black
community, aside from sitting up
there in Washington and voting
for things to appease someone?"
Butler said.
- Neal has taken the black vote
for granted, Epperson told the
Chronicle on July 31. "They
(blacks) have kept him in office
for 12 years."
Neal denied that he has taken
the black vote for granted. "If
that was true, I would not have
had the support from black people
over the last 12 years," Neal
said. "Epperson's statements are
obviously untrue."
Neal says he will campaign in
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Congress will be back in session
on Sept. 8, he said.
Neal said he expects Epperson
to try to split the black vote between
the two candidates in
November.- "I can't read his
mind, but I expect him to try to
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Ncal cited Epperson's recent
news conference in Happy Hills c
Gardens as an attempt to get
black support.
Epperson announced the creation
of a drug abuse task force at
the predominantly black housing
project near Old Salem last
month. Four Winston-Salem
police officers accompanied Epperson
at the news conference.
441 never felt the need for police
protection when I go into the
black community," Neal said.
44We didn't request the police
protection," Butler said. 44We
told the police about the news
conference, and they just apDeared."
The police officers were at the
corner of Liberia and Free streets
to maintain traffic control and
prevent drug dealers from interrupting
Epperson's news conference,
Butler said.
"When we have a press conference
in the white or black community,
the cops will be there/'
Butler said.
Despite Epperson's attempt to
Sway black voters, Walter Marshall,
president of the city's
NAACP chapter, said Neal has
solid support in the black community.
"Most poor and black people
in the district who follow Neal's
voting record know he is a person
that they can depend on," Marshall
said. "He is a sincere politician
and very close to the
people."
Neal has supported many
issues and legislation in Congress
that have been important to
blacks, he said.
Among these have been the
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the late Martin Luther King Jr.;
the extension of the Voting
Rights Act of 1965; economic
sanctions against South Africa, a
bill he co-sponsored in the U.S.
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House; the allocation of federal
funds for legal aid to poor people;
support of affirmative action
and opposing tax credits for
private schools.
The King holiday was "an important
issue to many black constituents/'
Neal said. "The
honor and significance of it to
many American citizens made it
worth the cost."
Neal co-sponsored an
economic sanctions bill against
South Africa because he is opposed
to apartheid, he said. "We
have to keep putting pressure on
the South African government,"
he said.
Epperson said in July that he
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He says sanctions will destroy the?
economic base of the country and
hurt blacks.
Poor blacks have benefited
from federally funded legal aid in
civil cases such as landlord-tenant
disputes, Neal said. "Legal aid is
for poor people regardless of
their race," he said.
Neal supports affirmative action
because it redresses past
discrimination against blacks and
other minorities, he said.
"I don't believe in quotas,"
Neal said. "Affirmative action
policies should set goals for employment,
not quotas."
Neal opposes tax credits to
private schools because he says
federal funds should help public
schools. v
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from public education to help
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"That would only weaken public
education. The strength of our*
country will be determined by the
quality of our public education
system."
However, Neal voted in 1982
to deny federal funds to bus
schoolchildren. "I am opposed to
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Neal opposes busing because,
he says, it is "coercive." Busing
denies the rights of parents to
choose the school for their
children to attend, he said.
"I was opposed to busing when
I first ran," Neal said. "And I
had strong black support in that
election. This is not a burning
issue now. We can't always agree
on every issue."
Neal favors replacing busing
with a magnet school concept.
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for those students who
wanted to go to'schools outside
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