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LANSING - The Michigan
Legislative Black Caucus
turned up the heat on State Lot
tery Commissioner Michael
Carr during a hearing here,
June 22.
Caucus Chair Rep. elson
Saunders pushed Caucus
demands for more African
Americans in executive posi
tions and more lottery advertis
ing dollars for the Blac media.
"Commis ioner Mich el
Carr, if you cannot present a'
proposal to us hen we meet
fo nder
cond mn
upreme
COU . ruling
DETROIT-"America is
not going to solve its youth
problem by killing its young
people;" (said Clementine Bar
field in n interview June ?:I, fol
lowing the Supreme Court
ruling allowing states to con
demn to death youths as young
16 year old.
Barfield's on was hot to
death by a teenager. Because of
this trag dy, she formed the or
ganization dedicated to
preventing youth violence
c lied ave Our Son and
Daughters ( 0 AD).
h g ntly but emphatically
oppose the recent upreme
Court decision which would
all slates to impose the death
penalty for minors like the one
who kill d her on.
eeing other youth penal
ized does not deter others. e
can't eep warehousing people
and illin peopl . We mus in
ve t more in prevention, she
. d. "Giv children something
to live for. An environment safe
to live, work and play in."
v rybody has to put their
arms around the children, not
'11 the children. Embrace th m
ith love and a sens of
e ted.
again in two week, I'll call for
the Black community to boycott
lottery ticket purchases and I'll
personally call for your resigna
fion and you will be removed
from your present position as
Commissioner," Saunders
warned. .
The Daily 3 game is the most
popular legalized gambling
game among the Lottery offer
ings, and Blacks are the prin
cipal players. The Caucus wants
a fair return to the Black com-
munity on its lottery pendings.
b en 'Of Af . c n
Americans from the top
echelons of the lottery bureau
also concerns the Cau . No
Black has ever held the position
of Deputy Commissioner
. during the Lottery' 17-year his-
tory. .
"I'm willing and will be more
than happy to meet with the
committee intwo wee s, and I
hope can work out thi situ -
tion and come tosome positive
conclusions," Carr told the
Caucus. "I thought we were
going to be able towor this
thing out today at this meeting. I
didn't expect this thing to go this
far."
The Lottery has committed .
$1 million of its $12 million ad-
. vertising budget to marketing -
Blac events, such as concerts,
Carr told the Caucus.
Though pleased with that
committment, the legislators
were concerned with how
Blac would have access to the
remaining $11 million.
"I want minority media to
have access to that remaining
$11 milion for use in minority
advertisng," said Rep. Carolyn
C . .
The Lo tery b
tisin decisio on surveys con
ducted by W.B. Doner and
Company, its. ad agency. Carl
told the Caucus that Doner
evaluates nd selects media
based on audience delivery,
cost efficiency, programming or
. format, individually or in com
bination with other media to ef
fectively re ch the maximum
number of lottery players.
Riegle d ci e
anc ions Bill
by .A.Abay
. WASHI GTO • D.C.- • A of
Thursday June 22, Senator
Donald Reigle has become a
co-sponsor of S.507, the com
preheo ive sanctions bill
against outb Africa".
The e were the words �f
J on Steinbaum, an assistant to
Senator Riegle at his office in
th nation's capital on June 26,
in regard to Riegle's position on
the new sanctions legislation in
troduced in the Senateby Paul
Simon of Illinoi .
Riegle had en th target of
critici m by the � ashington Of
fice on Africa (WOA) for his
lack of supp rt of S.507.
This bill would further ex
pand the restrictio placed on
U.S. inve tment and trad with
the white-minority government
in outh Africa. Ho ever, it still
on
allows for the conduct of tr de
in strategic minerals deemed in
dispensable by the president of
the United Sue ...
Riegle who is Chairman of
the Senate Banking Comitee
could be i trumental in secur
ing firmly orded clauses hich
would prevent the circumven
tion of th nctions bill by U.S.
corporation and their South
African trading partners.
Representatives from the
WOA, who had criticized
Riegle for oot taking a public
stand on the Bill initially, ex
pressed satisfaction that the
ichigan eoator was now a co
SPOn or of the legislation.
Hearings on th Bill before
the enate Foreign Relations
Comitee are cheduled to begin
later this month under the
chairmanship of Paul Simo of
Illinois.