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Diana Williams-Cotton is getting a jump on
other aldarmanic candidates with an early
announcement of her candidacy.
By ROBIN BARKSDALE
Chronicle Staff Writer
Although the deadline for candidates to file for the
1989 November elections is not until July, Diana
Williams-Cotton has gotten a jump on other candidates
with an official announcement that she will run for the
North Ward aldermanic seat.
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Mrs. Williams-Cotton, who ran unsuccessfully in
1985 for the seat eventually won by Patrick Hairston,
will run on the Republican ticket and said that she
expects to again face James Knox in the primary. But
she said that this time around she will run as a more
experienced, more confident candidate.
"1 am an innovative person and I think that 1 can
provide the leadership the North Ward needs," she said.
"I am aware of the problems of the North Ward."
Mrs. Williams-Cotton said that a growth spurt- in
the North Ward has created new problems for the neigh
borhoods in that area and that she plans to focus on
implementing ways for the ward to deal with those new
issues.
"We have experienced tremendous growth in the
north end of the city, and sometimes it has been at the
expense of homeowners," she said. "There is a traffic
problem in the North Ward, now. The Cherry Street
Extension area over to Indiana has become bottle
V
necked."
Mrs. Williimi-Couon saUT that 7>ne of the
approaches to solving the problems may rest in the cre
ation of what she terms "opportunity zones" for small
and minority-owned businesses. Under that plan, she
said, small businesses would be given specified tax
breaks to encourage them to provide more jobs.
haye to look to small businesses to help defeat
unemployment," said Mrs. Williams-Cotton. "Small
businesses employ many people and could employ more
if they had certain considerations. They will be impor
tant in helping to solve some of the problems in our
ward and in the ci|y."
Mrs. Williams-Cotton said that despite the recent
trends among Afro-American voters to cast votes strict
ly along party lines, she believes that that segment of
the community slowly is developing more political
savvy and that she will benefit from that new sophistica
tion during her campaign. She said, too, that politicians
bear some of the responsibility in educating voters as to
how to make the best use of their voting privileges.
"1 think it's a new day. 1 think that black voters are
becoming aware that we must operate within a one and
two-party system," said Mrs. Williams-Cotton, who lost
the 1985 primary to Mr. Knox by a margin of 30 votes, i
"Part of my job is to get out and educate the populace. I
feel that blacks are becoming more sophisticated. I don't
think they will continue to look just at the party. 1 think
they are beginning to look more at the candidate."
Mrs. Williams-Cotton said that she still is develop
ing the remainder of the planks in her platform. She is
certain $at she will push to develop new programs that
will deal with the abundance of drugs in the city, but she
said that there must be new, creative means of dealing
with drug abuse. Mrs. Williams-Cotton said she also
plans to raise concerns about black-on-black crime.
? " 'Just Say No' is not enough. Drugs are getting out
of control. There has to be a different approach. Getting
rid of drugs will be at the top of my agenda. In the
North Ward, right now, it's not so tough but they can
move into any area of this city," she said. "The situation
of black-on-black crime is tough. I'm not going to sit
here and say that I have the solutions because I don't
But I am willing to work on it I'll work to get anything
that is needed. 1 will work ta get anything that th& city
as a whole needs. I won't b& working just for the North- .
Ward."
Mrs. Williams-Cotton said also that she plans to
work especially hard to ensure that there is no mud
- slinging involved with her campaign. She said that she^ -
will focus only on the issues and hopes that any
personal attacks will be left out of the campaign.
"I believe in positive campaigning. I believe that
we should deal with the issues and not the people," said
Mrs. Williams-Cotton, who helped manage Ed Gamer's
campaign for state auditor in the last election. "All I
plan to deal with are the issues. I plan to avoid the nega
tive stuff that takes away from the issues. I truly ctpn't
believe in negative campaign tactics."
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