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Thursday, December 11, 1997
Vote leaves allies wondering
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tion when he walked to the podi
um Sunday. Throughout the
event, he was greeted by support
ers who wondered aloud how
Martin could have sided with the
Republicans.
Martin said last week that he
opposed Helms because he sup
ported a homosexual candidate,
but that was just part of the
Republicans’ strategy to snatch
control of the board from the
Democrats.
Bush sent a letter to fellow com
missioners and the media saying
the commissioners should now
focus on other issues.
Martin, who was named vice
chairman of the board, could not
be reached for comment about
Bush’s letter. In previous inter
views he has remained adamant
in his opposition to gay rights on
personal and religious grounds.
But the vote left blacks and
Democrats wondering about
Martin’s loyalty on other issues,
such as education and welfare
reform.
Some are plotting his removal
from the board. Norman Mitchell
has already said he plans to run
Eigainst Martin in District 2 and,
some observers say, former com
missioner and state senator Jim
Richardson would run at-large if
Martin entered that race as a
Democrat or Republican.
Filing for coimty and state elec
tions opens Jan. 1.
Bob Davis, chairman of the
Black Political Caucus, said
Martin is teetering on becoming a
Republican.
“Hoyle is a maverick,” said
Davis, who called an emergency
meeting at Democratic Party
headquarters Saturday.
“He is a man of conscience,”
Davis said. “Sometimes it leads
him to some extremes. In my
opinion, he has violated the needs
of his district for an issue people
in his district care little about.”
Davis said Republicans used the
homosexuahty issue to get
Martin’s vote. “I think Hoyle is
leaning toward becoming a
Republican and that’s really
where he ought to go right now,”
he said. “He and that party
deserve each other.”
Martin said he does not intend
to change parties and has not
made a deal with Bush and the
Republicans.
“I’m not supporting Parks
Helms,” Martin said, alleging
Helms was involved in getting a
black candidate to run against
him.
“I don’t think Bush will hurt the
black community,” Martin said.
“He does not have that much
power. I can still be the svring
vote.”
Democrats say they have to
work with Martin for at least
another year and see no value in
further alienating him.
Helms said the Democratic
Party and the majority of people
in the African American commu
nity are confronted with a dilem
ma: “What will Hoyle Martin do?”
“The uncertainty of his stand on
issues affecting the human condi
tion in this community makes us
all uneasy,” Hehns said.
He noted that a new budget
process begins in January and
that issues involving education,
health and welfare reform loom.
Griffin ascends to chairmanship
Dunlap
Continued from page 1A
that he had
enough votes to
become chair,
they expected
that Burgess
would remain
on the board
and become
vice chair.
Burgess’ resig
nation indi
cates “it’s about
power rather than about chil
dren,” Dunlap said.
Dunlap’s attempt to elect
Louise Woods vice chair failed.
But, he said Wednesday, Lassiter
is the second senior board mem
ber and has shown good leader
ship skflls.
GrifBn denied he’d struck a deal
to wrest the chairmanship from
Burgess and had not sought the
position.
“My colleagues came to me and
asked me to serve,” Griffin said.
He said he regretted that
Burgess chose to resign from the
. board. “I was floored,” Griffin
Mandela
pleads her
own case
} By Gumisai Mutume
i INTERNATIONAL PRESS SERVICE
I JOHANNESBURG, South
[* Africa - More than 40 witness-
I es have lined up to testify
; before South Africa’s Truth and
I Reconciliation Commission
I against a vocal, self-proclaimed
1 champion of the poor.
I i Never before in the two-year
1 history of the TRC, a statutory
1 body formed to investigate
1 apartheid atrocities, has public
j attention been this high.
I Meticulous planning and effort
I have been put towards this
• hearing, described by the com-
j mission as the biggest media
event it has hosted.
• But for 63-year-old Winnie
Madikizela-Mandela and her
supporters, all this work has
been done in order to victimize
ber.
t Madikizela-Mandela and her
group of bodyguards, known as
the Mandela United Football
Club, are facing 18 charges of
assault, kidnapping and other
human rights abuses, including
eight murders.
According to the TRC’s
deputy chairman, Alex Boraine,
at least 42 people have been
lined up to testify in the hear
ing, which began Nov. 24. The
commission was scheduled to
hear from Madikizela-Mandela
on the last day.
“Public figures like Winnie
should expect rather more
attention than the small,
insignificant apartheid mur
derers,” says political scientist
Tbm Lodge. “Winnie is a pohti-
cian of renown and if the TRC
does not give her such attention
it will be accused of trying to
cover up.”
See WINNIE on page 5A
said. “It’s regrettable that she
decided to resign and not serve. I
was saddened by it. She had
demonstrated strong leadership.”
Selection of a chair other than
the top vote-getter has some
precedent. Griffin was denied the
chair in 1992 after leading the at-
large field in the previous election
following George Battle’s resigna
tion. William Rikard and Jane
McIntyre were chairs in subse
quent years, before Buigess led
the 1995 field.
The school board will select a
new member to fill Burgess’ seat.
That person will serve imtil the
1999 election.
Griffin, a midpoint schools advo
cate, said he has not bargained
with neighborhood schools advo
cates to win the chairmanship,
trading support for neighborhood
schools for more spending on
inner city schools.
“I have never conditioned doing
the right thing for children on any
basis,” Griffin said. “I have never
said ‘if you help these kids get rid
of their brown water, we can go
back to neighborhood schools.’”
But neighborhood schools advo
cates, who have three supporters
on the board, were elated with
'Tuesday’s developments. Burgess
had been a strong supporter of
continued
desegregation.
“Looking at
the school
board off the
top its going to
have a strong
neighborhood
school group
and they are
going to force
that issue on us
in lieu of school
integration,” Davis said. ‘We are
going to have some all-white and
all-black schools.”
The second board shakeup in a
week can have a negative impact
on future black candidates, Davis
said.
“This gives the impression black
politicians are looking out for
themselves, not the broad com
munity. Blacks may not be able to
get the strong white support
needed to win at-large races.”
Davis
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