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Members of the Detroit
Tenants Organization (DOT)
say their worse fears have come
to pass, Governor James
Blanchard h signed into law
Public Act 226'which bans local
gover ments from enacting Fair
Rent fa .
In a related action, Secretary
of DOT Vic . Carvari said the
Greater Detroit Chamber of
Commer� d ui 0 July 5,
. to ba the Ie· tion taken off
Of the A 2, 1988 ballot.
Judge Ri� Kaufman of the­
W yoe County Circuit court will
" bear casc •.
Cavari that elIam-
ber of Commerce h put two
Black n up as fronts to make
" . 100 like the Commerce i not
eading this action. The two
elected are' Kevin Fobb a
I .
,
board member of the United
Community Housing Coalition
for five years, but is also an agent"
for The Better Housing Group,
which uses the same addre as
the Chamber of Commerce.
Mike Tucker Jr., who is the
landlord of DOT President of
Cleothia Odom, is the other
plaintiff on the suit.
Cavari maintain , "The
Chamber of Commerce i using
Blacks to do its dirty work. ".
Chamber of Commerce's
Vice President of Government
Affairs MilCe Smith said that the
Chamber is one group in many
of the People for Better Housing
. and are not soley responsible for
the lawsuit, and that Fobbs and
Tucker are plaintiffs in the suit.
Smitb claims that the PBH
Committee sought a court order
to remove the Fair Rent ques­
tion from � b because they
say it 1d be illegal for citize
to vote on the tion now that
it has been si by the gover-
nor.
He say Public Act 226
prohibits re t control ordinan-
ces. I
Smith says t Blanchard
signed the bill i 0 Ia because
he realized t rent control
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Racism rears head in D.C. battle
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NNPA News Edito,
WASHINGTON D.C. -
Led by a conservative white
Southerner, Rep. Stan Parris
(D., VA), the U.S. House of
Representatives by a stunning
246-143 vote, approved a Parris
a ndment that would effec­
tively bar the city from enforcing
an eight-year-old residency law
requiring D.C. government
workers to live in the D· trict
Angered, D.C. ayor
Marion B rry is reportedly
readying a proposition that
ould permit District residents
to vote in an advisory referen­
dum in the fall elections. Said he:
". thought the d ys of
Colonialism were" over. But it
I ok like it's raising. i s ugly
head again. Here we are again,
colonial ubjects being ictated
to."
Barry also bitterly r marked,
"If th Ma or th City Council
and the peop of the D· trict
can't decide (issues like this)
then home rule is meaningleSs.·
The District which has no voting
repre entation in Congress
(Rep. Walter Fa un troy has been
a non-voting District.delegate to
Congress since 1971).
Accordina to Fauntrov, Par­
riS is saying: "rr y u hire peopl
from Maryland and irginia, it's
okay." Observers agree that the
re idency dispute has been
tinged with racism. Advocates of
the ru contend that the oPPO i­
tion consists of mainly white
union ctivists who rejected the
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DLO D
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uel .Sax­
American
d Director of
for Prioce Geor
Saxton said that the real .
cocaine violations increa ed
190% durin the 1980-86
period," rated.
Almo t 11 convicted of­
fender , I report id, with
such violations were charged
·rb distr uting or manuf ctur­
. g these drugs, hich th y es­
lima are produced u i of
the U . borders.' "In dditi n,
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