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Sanders
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quoted Sanders accurately.
“We stand by our story,” he
said.
Sallie Stabler, the
spokesperson for the Sanders
campaign, said that Sanders
had spoken with the trio
about his campaign, but they
had not officially endorsed
him.
“He did not want to put
words in their mouths, but we
would love their support,”
Stohler said.
Mendez, pastor of the
Emmanuel Baptist Church,
said that he was leaning
toward Sanders in the prima
ry because he believes
Sanders can defeat Helms in
the general election.
“I have talked to Charlie
Sanders, but I have not heard
from Gantt,” he said.
“Sanders has a lot of support
in the African American com
munity. The people I have
spoken to
statewide say
Sanders has
a good repu
tation.”
Sanders
attended the
CIAA basket
ball tourna
ment in
February in
Winston-
Salem as well
as other black events
statewide, Mendez said.
“I want us to defeat Jesse
Helms and not just have a
good showing,” Mendez
added. “It is going to take
money and an organization to
do it. I'm not sure that
Harvey is that well organized
to compete with Helms.”
Chambers, chancellor of
N.C. Central University and a
• former Charlotte resident,
appears in one of Sanders 30-
minute TV commercials, but is
supporting Gantt in the May 7
primary
In Sanders’ spot, Chailiber
says that both Sanders and
Gantt are strong candidates.
He also says Sanders is a good
person and would be a better
Senator than Helms.
“He supported NCCU and
education in general,”
Chambers told the Chronicle.
If Sanders wins the primary,
Chambers said he will support
his candidacy against Helms
in the general election. But he
also said Gantt has a strong
chance of winning the prtmary
and the November election.
“I think a black candidate
can win,” he said.
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national attention.
“We ran a strong race,” he
said. “We didn’t get buried.”
Gantt has dismissed the idea
that a black man can not beat
Helms.
"People have been saying
that all my life," Gantt told
the Associated Press. “They've
said, T don't think a black
man can go to Clemson. I
don’t think a black man can
be mayor of Charlotte. I don't
think a black can be the
Democratic nominee for U.S.
Senate.’”
Across the state, there are
696,328 blacks registered to
vote. They constitute about
18 percent of the state’s voting
rolls and could make up about
25 percent of the primary
vote-large enough to swing the
May primary, the AP report
ed.
Gantt also mentioned that
Sander's company, Glaxo, had
donated $19,750 to Helms'
campaign in 1990, that he
personally donated money to
the Republican candidates in
1994, that Sanders did not
vote in the 1990 elections, and
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“There is some question as
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Gantt said. “He’s no more an
outsider than I am. And he
didn't give my campaign a
dime in 1990.”
Stohler said Sanders was
the president and CEO at
Glaxo when its political action
committee donated to Helms'
1990 campaign.
“He had no control of whom
the PAC gave money to in
1990,” she said. The commit
tee's board of directors decided
which campaigns to fund and
Stohler and a spokesperson
for Glaxo, Nancy Pekarek,
said Sanders wasn't a member
of its board of directors.
Sanders donated more than
$72,000 to Democratic candi
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