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Primary offers competition
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entrepreneur and former
president of the Metrolina
Minority Contractors
Association
In District 4, where Greg
Phipps will leave his seat
when the new council is
sworn in, three Democrats -
Michael Barnes, Maxine
Eaves and Joyce Waddell —
are campaigning to replace
him.
TTie non-partisan
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
School Board also offers
some intrigue. In District 2,
incumbent Vilma Leake,
who fought off a challenge to
have her removed from the
board because of alleged res
idence irregularities, is cam-
p a i g n i n g
against
Mukul Datta,
Donna
Jenkins
Dawson and
Sheila Ann
Johnson.
Leake, who
has been criti-
Dawson
cized as a divsisive force on
the often-contentious board,
may still have the upper
hand As an incumbent in a
winner-take-all race. Leak’s
challenge is to keep a core
group of supporters in place
while the competition has to
build a critical mass of voters
for change
“What an incumbent
wants is not one opponent,
but two, three or four,”
Arrington said.
In District 3, longtime com
munity activist Dwayne
Collins is challenging incum
bent school board member
George Dunlap. Dunlap said
he doesn’t mind competing
for the seat
‘T don’t mind having an
opponent,” he said. “Let’s put
our issues on the table and
let the voters decide.”
Although it’s rare for
incumbents to lose in
Charlotte primaries, there is
a precedent. In 2003, Lynn
Wheeler lost a bid for an at-
large city coimdl seat, which
she blamed on her support
for the uptown arena.
Whether that wiU happen
in a heavily Democratic dis
trict with a plurality of
African American voters
remains to be seen.
“Is there more competition
in the black community?
Yeah,” Arrington said “Tlie
real measure of competition
is can you defeat an incum
bent”
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Elected county officials back bonds
By Herbert L. White
h^rb.whiteCo ihecharlottepostrom
Black elected officials from
Mecklenburg County have
thrown their support behind
the county’s bond referen-
dums.
At a meeting of county offi
cials and legislators, all but
Mecklenburg County
Commissioner Valerie
Woodard, a vocal critic of
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Schools spending, pledged to
support tire measures. They
will also lobby voters and
community organizations to
support the bonds.
Most of the discussion
focused on CMBs request for
$427 million for construction
and renovations, which
would address rapid growth
in the suburbs and upgrades
for urban and “middle ring”
schools. While county com
missioners and school board
members have haggled over
how much money should go
to schools, black political
leaders say the needs are
immediate.
“Tb delay the inevitable
would be more costly in
financial and social terms,”
school board member George
Dunlap said in a statement.
Roberts
passes on
CBC meeting
tm.AsstxiAmu prkss
Sigireme Court chief jus
tice nominee John Roberts
rejected a request to meet
with representatives of the
Congressional Black Caucus
before his confirmation hear
ing.
In a letter to
Judge Roberts
dated Aug. 25,
caucus Chair
Rep. Mel Watt
(D-N.C.) and
Rep Eleanor
Holmes
Norton (D-
D.C), the
Chair of the
Watt
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'Ilie 2005 honorees are:
• Corporation of the year
Microsoft
• Entrepreneur: Ron
Leeper CEO; R.J. Leeper
Company
• Educator Anne Alston
West Charlotte Hi^ School
• Sportsperson: Alvin
Simpson. Chariotte Boxing
Academy
• Community service orga-
nizatiem Kendall Phills,
Bobby Phills Foundation
• Tbp Senior runner up-
Deborah J. Nelson, Harding
University Hi^ School
• Tbp Senior of the Year-
Shannoi J. Nelson Harding
University High School
“Community expectations
for school safety, alone, justi
fies reducing the overcrowd
ing in many of our schools.”
Added Commissioner
WUhelmenia Rembert:
“School safety, equal educa
tional opportunity and stu
dent achievement will be
held hostage by refusing to
pass the bonds.”
N.C. Rep. Beverly Earle,
chair of the Legislative
Black
Caucus, said
Mecklenburg
is obligated to
do all it can
keep pace with
a projected
enrollment
boom of 50,000
students over
the next
decade..
“We can iU-afford to have a
school district that does not
Rembert
provide the necessary facili
ties in which high quality
teaching and learning can
take place wherever children
live in our community,” she
said.
Central Piedmont
Community College, law
enforcement and land bonds
were also endorsed, which
include funding for water
quality at the Moimtain
Island Lake watershed.
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