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WASHINGTON -- Black voters handed
Democrats control of the U.S. Senate in last week's
off-year elections.
In each of the eight states where a Democrat took
a seat from a Republican, blacks voted overwhelmingly
for the Democrat. ^
The black vote was so pivotal in four of those
states that the Democrat
would simply not have
^ won without it.
Blacks clearly proHflL
vided the margin of vicWJwm
tory in North Carolina
I Alabama, Louisiana and
| California.
I Carolina, Republican
Jim Broyhill won only
Terry Sanford: Black Per?ent,of the black vote :
votes saved the day t0 ^mocrat
(photo by James Te,rry S?n,f?rd\
Parker) *n California, Alan
Cranston retained his
Senate seat by capturing only 47 percent of the
,< white vote. Cranston received 82 percent of the
black vote.
So few blacks voted for Broyhill because he
didn't adequately address issues that especially con- cern
black people, said Vernon L. Robinson, a
black Republican who is chairman of the bipartisan,
predominantly black 21st Century Political
Action Committee.
Some of Broyhill's votes in the Senate and his
decision not "to integrate blacks into his campaign
staff" came back to haunt him on Election Day,
Robinson said. ?
"On Election Day, the black community obliged
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nun uy nui giving mm any votes/' said Robinson, a
professor at Winston-Salem State University.
The number of blacks who will serve in the U.S.
House now totals a record 23. The new members include
Mississippi's Mike Espy, Maryland's Kweisi
Mfume, Queens, N.Y.'s, the Rev. Floyd Flake and
Georgia's John Lewis.
Other election results from across the nation:
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largest cockroach, sponsored by a local In a le
radio station and pest-control company, said the <
recently came under fire from several citv commun
officials who said the contest reinforced Cockn
racial stereotypes. substand
"To me, it is sick," said Councilman macje fi
Jeffrey Johnson.
The. "Biggest Cockroach Contest," WZA]
which was sponsored Saturday, Nov. 8, by tant
WZAK-FM 93.1 and RAID Roach Control
Public safety issue
on aldermen's agenda
About 45 people told the aldermen's Public Safety
Committee Tuesday night that the city's public
safety program should be eliminated because it
deprives citizens of necessary fire and police protec.
tion.
Aldermen Larry W. Womble and Martha S.
Wood voted for a resolution requesting the city administration
to eliminate the program by July 1,
1987.
/ Lynne S. Harpe and committee Chairman Vivian
H. Burke abstained.
The full board will hold a public hearing on the
matter and consider the resolution at its next
meeting Monday at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall.
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and pop Friday night in Chapel Hill. The former lead singer
of the Commodores drew young and old, black and white to
UNC's Dean Smith Center (photo by Chris Mackie).
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Chronicle Staff Writer
BBl Beaufort O, Bailey might be watc
more "Monday Night Football/'
wH black voters not rallied him to vie
hSSs last week.
rajl Bailey, a three-term school b<
ttpj member, showed poorly in the <
| Y ] returns from white precincts, trailir
^ sixth or seventh place for most of
'night.
But the only black on the bo
which meets on Monday nights, rem
ed confident that black voters w<
Beaufort Bailey make up the difference.
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"I don't expect any repercussio
because I won't accept any. Pc
enemies for me."
Mazle S. Woodruff
Mrs. Woodra
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By JOHN HINTON
Chronicle Staff Writer
Related articles below and on A5.
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WRITE-IN candidate Mazie S.
Woodruff received more votes from black
precincts than any of her opponents,
though not nearly enough to maintain her
county commissioners' seat or hurt her
fellow Democrats.
"It was a successful campaign," said
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Mrs. wooarun, the first black and second
woman to serve as a commissioner.
"Although we didn't win a seat, we won a
victory/'
Mrs. Woodruff received 30 percent of
the vote from the inner-city precincts, while
Democrats John S. Holleman Jr. and
Wayne O. Willard, both of whom arc
white, tallied 28 percent and 26 percent of
, the black vote* respectively, according to
results from the Forsyth County Board of
Elections.
Holleman and Willard said they received
support in the black community because
many blacks supported the Democratic
ticket.
"People have a,trust in what I say,"
Willard Tuesday. "I hope I can live tip
to that trust."
Republicans David L.^Drummond and
Roger Swisher received 8 percent of the
vote from those precincts. But Holleman
and Willard won the election with strong
support from county voters, taking the two
available seats and shifting the board's majority
to Democratic.
Mrs. Woodruff, who finished third
behind Holleman and Willard in the May
primary, said her write-in campaign was
hurt by blacks voting a straight Democratic
ticket and a low turnout among black
voters.
Roughly only 41 percent of the registered
black voters participated in last Tuesday's
elections.
"I am proud of the blacks and whites
who voted for me," Mrs. Woodruff said.
"(But) we have to do a better job of getting
blacks out to vote."
Mrs. Woodruff received only 384 writeBlacks
gave Sp
By JOHN HINTON
Chronicle Staff Writer
Black voters in the East Ward carried W.
Warren Sparrow, a Democrat, to a narrow
victory last week in the district attorney's
race. But Republican Joseph J. Gatto,
Sparrow's opponent, fared better Tuesday
among blacks than perhaps any other
Republican in recent history.
aporruw rcccivea more tnan 80 percent
of the vote from five East Ward precincts.
Overall, he collected about 8,400 votes
1: A familiar slot
"I wouldn't have run if I didn'
like I could win," he said.
He was not disappointed. The
H votcs rccc*vc<* from Mack pr*
h not only vaulted Bailey back int
tory race but helped him surge into s<
place with a 32,607 total.
:>ard Bailey led in all of the predomin
;arlv ???*?
?? viowk prcvmcu except one, the
i in Street Recreation Center, which f
the black Democrat Evelyn A. Terry w<
one vote,
ard, Other winners in the race incl
tain- Nancy L. Wooten, Mary P. MCa
ould Wood, Mary Margaret Lohr and
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>litics has never made any
H: No regrets
THE AFTERMATH
Looking back at Nov. 4
in votes from county voters.
Walter^Marshall, president of the city's
NAACP, said Mrs. Woodruff's write-in
campaign was unorganized.
"If the black community was really
behind Mazie, then (neither) Holleman nor
Willard would have won," Marshall said.
"But it was organized enough to send a
message to the Democratic Party."
R. Michael Wells, chairman of the coun''J
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Mrs. Woodruff: Strong black support
(photo by James Parker).
ty's Democratic Party, said Mrs.
Woodruff's write-in campaign did not affect
the county commissioners' race.
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Before the election, Wells had said Mrs. i"
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Woodruff's campaign could split the
Democratic Party.
As for possible backlash from her party
for bucking its establishment, Mrs.
Woodruff said she was unconcerned.
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arrowvictory
from the overwhelmingly Democratic black
precincts, while Gatto garnered more than
^ ^AA
j,zuu, according to official results from the
Forsyth County Board of Elections.
"We had some people who worked hard
to get out the vote," Sparrow said Monday.
"I have had a law practice here for 20
years and had several black clients. I built a ...
good reputation with them."
After trailing most of Tuesday night,
Sparrow defeated Gatto by 893 votes,
33,820 to 32,927, on the strength of late
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