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on.
come bo
Givi 9 �Ia�
today is often priced out of sight
ABC wiD help these parCnts pay
for the child care they want so
that they are not forced to put
their children • substandard
care or Iea\le them home alone
- rUing . children's health
and safety.
- A range of choices of
types of child care. Parents rely
on many diffemt forms of child
care: family day care homes,
and child cal'e ce ers run by
churches, schools. and busi­
nesses. ABC will help parents
pay for all of t se different
child care optioas, as Ioog
they meet basic health and
safety requirements. '
- Greater opportun·· to
fmd safe child care for their
children. There is CWTeotly DO
federal law protecting our
children from unsafe or
downright harmful child care.
"families real child care
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only if we act now. In a lila er of get list. You can reach th m
weeks, Congress will eave either t their home offices in
Washington. We canno wait your state or.in Washington at
un they return again Ior a 202-224-3l21. As them to sup-
d care bill: need .. port the ABC child care bill this
now. year, and five or your neigh-
If you live in the fo wing bors or friends to do I he same.
. ates help persuad undecided Ask yourself whether our
Senators to support BC. children are worth ten minutes
,Children need your help to win of your time and a phon call
the backing of the following We need real child care
U.s. Senators right away: Heflin cboies. We must demand that
and Shelby of Alabama; Chiles our leader repond no , not
and Graham of Florida; UDD, next year or years from now.
and Fowler of Geo gia; <lWdren need safe child care
John ton and Breaux of cho'a:s DOW.
Lo . iana; SteDD� of M' issip­
pi; Bentsen of Texas; Warner of
Vqinia; D' oflUino·; Ford
ofKentucty; Glenn of Ohio and
Hem and Specter of Penilsyl­
vania.
It is urge, that you pi up
)'OW' phone right DOW and call
your Senator if � on this tar-
Too maDy Black children have
died for lack of decent dtild
care. 11lree-year-old Anthony
Grant and four-year-old
Maurice Grant of Florida died
in a clothes dcyer while home
alone, when their mother ws on
a waiting. for subsidized dtild
care. Make their deaths count,
ABC uld set basic, sen-
bIe standards for any facility or
home receiving .federal funds.
These requirements are things
e�ry parent knows are neces­
sary, like wasbiag hands after
diapering and before feeding a
child. 'I'U law will e' hie more
parents in our community to
make a quality child care choice
for their children.
U you are a parent, or if you,
care bo children, the ABC
child care bill' important to
you. We now ha� a historic op­
portUnitY to this bill, but
elp
End hou ing
discrimlnaton
If you believe, you're being
denied t housing of your
cho� based on your race,
oolor, sex, national orgin.
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The woman· who might
pick the 'president
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pr . deirtial DO • ation, born
1941.
ca she's OIl my'program. but
because of· 's she's sayiDg -
d doi
When Fulaai walked into the
TV 'studio, the audieace
re pectf I, but iadiffere t.
Whca finished, 30 miau
later, members of d6e audieace
� OIl their feet appla •
Jesse Jadcsoo may �
ten 5C'a million \UeS, but be
did not win hiS party' DO • •
tioD d . DOt 011 the ballot
in all SO states and the District
of CoIumbis. But Leaora AI i
W· a substantial JJ
wte, Michael D caIiDOt .
clefeat{korF Bush. Of ooUrse,
Dubkis is depending OIl Jesse
Jacbon to delWer the Black
�forhim.
'But . may be more .
portaDt to Dubk" ch ca
. J Jacboa. ADd before
you Ia coasider this: "'There
are niDe coatrol M1
of the 270 electoral 00
needed to . the PresiClency.
That meaDS t nearly 90 per- .
ee of electoral wtcs needed to
. are' the fo states:
California, Florida, lIIinoi
Michigan, New Jersey, Ne
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania d
Texas.
And ironicaDy, because of
segregation, B .
ee trated· tales that .
• close race betweeo the
Democra aDd Republicans,
have between Bush aDd
Dukakis, an organized Black
\'Ole would . the election. It
would certainly rui the chances
of the Democrats if a even maD
percen defected or tayed
at home.
But if a Black independent
candidate carried one half of
thole BiDe tales be or she oould
defeat either Dubkis or Bush •
1988.,
Her tr iD building a
third party' pretty simple.
FuIaai's cam"" targeted
• key states Mere a stroag
. clepe dent vote can be the
. wte. Her egy' to get
ODe to three percent of the
popular wte "which could cost
Dub . and the Democratic
puty the elcctioa,· explains.
Like Jesse J Idrson, Fulani �
wery pro-py aDd lesbian; �ry
. -military; aDd very soak the
rich. With these politics, she
plaDs to get Jacboa's seven mil­
lioa wtea wIaich were pimarily
Black and py-lcsbiaD white.
Amoag Blacb, emphasizes
. the frustratioas -of bei taken
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Dr. I.e
tial . didate. And while
admires Jackson's political
• aDd policies,
fee be sott�n very little
&0 the Demoaatic Party Co
thole supported him.
It' F ", .dependent run
that . the stakes in the 1988
race for President The general.
media has' ored her, but
en e electoral votes are
co DIed and the Blac vote
aaaIyzed, you may fand that her
iDcIe�dent run picked e
. - and the loser .
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