Molt
LI�."'.'I" Unio (ACLU)
i al tot
be on top
t I ion.
r id if nothing i don. about luch probl
th city.
B r nd oth r 0 rvers cha that in th 1992 p i·
d ntial election:
LJ People were not correctly
informed of their polling places
and wh n they went to the
wrong polling place, they were
unable to vote.
Election Commis ion
phones were jammed all day and
people we unable to get infor­
mation.
"There's no excuse for people
being denied the right to vote,
because of administration foul
ups," he said, "and we want to
make sure it doesn't happen
again."
Jeff Blaine, Deputy City
Clerk, said that he had not received the ACLU letter, but the
commission had already taken action to prevent problems for
voters.
MANY OF THESE problems occurred because of a court
decision changing election rules, Blaine said. The court ruled
saying that people were eligible to vote in the 1992 election if
they had voted in a 10 year time frame. Records of all these
newly eligible voters were not available during the last election,
which added to complications and phone lines.
Blaine emphasized he did not think this would happen in the
primary election where there would be fewer voters.
However, he added, the city election commission had taken
action to improve efficiency. Some 300 poll workers who had
vision problems were replaced. Also, the Commission selected
a vendor to computerize voter registration.
Blaine said this could not take place before, because of a
conflict betw n the office of Election Commi ioner James
B dley yor Col n A. Youna- 0 1\a .,.
I the compu t1 dect. '
Blaine id he had talked with Brewer on a radio program
last spring and "Brewer appeared satisfied' with what was
being done.
MILDRED STALLINGS, head of the 14th DIStrict Demo­
cratic Party organization, said that the Election Commission
was "trying to improve," but she was maintaining a "wait and
see attitude. "
. She emphasized that the 1992 election was not the first one
in which the election commission had made "some goofy mis­
takes."
Stallings added she was working with the NAACP Voter's
Education Project to insure people their constitutional right to
vote.
CHICAGO
Burris seeks governor's office in '94
CmCAGO, IL - Democratic Attorney General Roland Bur­
ris the only Black to win a major constitutional office in
Illinois, nnounced he will try to make history again by
capturing th governor's mansion.
Burris formally announced his bid for governor at a morn­
ing news com rence with an expected swipe at Republican
Gov. Jim Edga and his GOP predecessor, Jim Thompson.
Burris accused the Republican administrations of neglect­
ing economic development and said he would make it a cor­
nerstone of his campaign.
ROSEVILLE
Racial rent case in court
RO EVILLE, I - Natalie Waleed, 24, a Black woman, has
filed lawsui in U.S. District Court agains the Coolid
. Ap rtmen ,its former owners, Roger and Edith Verf�e,
nd r ntal gent von Reynold, claiming she was deru
ho ing b he is Black. .. . .
Th sui char racially motivat housing discrimina-
tion and ks dama of more than 50,000.
In court papers, Waleed said wh n she went to rent an
apartment Reynolds told her, "You're Black, and the owners
would kill me if I r mted this apartment to you. All my other
t n nts w uld mov out .. .If I rented to you, th property
valu would go down, nd just won't do it."
LANSING
ACLU: 'New law unconstitutional'
............. ..,.&Jo G I - Michigan's ne stalking law could s ruck
d wn uneo itu ional if the �gislature d n't fix i fast,
th Am ncan IVlI Li rti Union warn .
How rd im n, tive di or for th . ACLU i� Mi?U-
i th law' definition of harassment IS uneonstitution-
ally v gu Tha' th 7 -month-old law to a court
challenge, h ·d.
"Stalking' form of terrorism. This �te n a tough
anti- talking law, bu it n one that will m t co itu-
tio tand ," Simon . d.
D IT - OnA 2.
pI ion of npo ra,
NAACP t Ihoppera and
community inapectora aooompa­
ni mayoral candida Sharon
McPh il nd M lik F.M. el
Shabazz, p . dent of Th N
Marcus Garvey Movement nd
Stop Merchants S lling Food In
Filth, (SMSFIF) to Tom Boy
Mar , located at 120 Second
Avenue.
After prior i paction visi
by the group and citation by
the Department of Agriculture,
owner Sam Farida knew what to
do when he saw the entourage
enter the store: employ began
8 ping, dusting, pulling past
dated decomposed meat from
coolers and straightening bab­
bily kept food shelves. But their
efforts were in vain
m
llton
chi n,c.b8"
Fly tri
d dtli 0
bl .
Ad d ral
month pr viou
SMSFIF i 'on, remained in
its r ting place lying on i
back, in rd board box' . d
of the zero
"I t' the m on, • id
Shabazz, ·1 found t t roach fi
months ago and howed it to t
owner nd it's still th re."
Shabazz id the reason he
was sure that it the same
roach is because of the location.
"You can't just alk over there
and it," he said, "you have to
move the merchandise and go all
the way down to the bottom of
BRIEFS
era
Pin Sol failed to remove the
odor coming from puddle of
water mixed with blood near the
8e00Dd tim
round for i pection of Tom
Boy . In Octo r of '92,
t mar� t cited by t
P rtment of Agricultu and
tligh in Michigan Citizen
for primarily t problems.
Farida refus to � t
blame. "I can't do anymo
I'm doing. We clean t ore
everyday. I can't help it if the
t1i come into the store. They
follow us through the ck door
when w bring in th meat. •
AreordingtoDr. E.C. Heffron,
division di ctor, of Michi­
gan rtm nt of Agricultu ,
State Inspectors went be in
Tom Boy' on August 6th nd
found two dead rats. "This ore
has a long history of problems.
We are compiling information
that will determine the fate of
this mar et," Heffron said.
Danny Bolas, who is in charge
of produce at Tom Boy said, "
don't ge as much spoilage 88 we
use to, but when we do, we :re-
duce the pri "
1M �IM, head of the
meat department, defended h
position by saying, ·when the
bad we throw it
away." h also dmitted that
. t to . before it
ng _ J
d a good yto·
of .
A woman claiming to be
hopper from Bloomfield Hills,
tated that he visits Detroit
each week in order to hop t
TomBoy.
McPhail condemned the con­
dition of th market and said
program Ii e SMSFIF is what it
would tak to rid the city of mer­
chants who defy the law. "We
n 0 organize th people, use
vans, b and cars to trans­
port id nts to ot r parts of
Se FIL ntY, pg !,S
Detroit Mayoral candidate Sharon McPhail and Malik Shabazz examine
out-dated meat during a community Inspection of Tom Boy Market. Ida
Hines (left) looks on. (Photo by W. Roquemore)
NEWYORK
Black studies chairman reinstated
NEWYORK, -Dr. Leonard Jeffri w reinstated to his
position as department chairman of Black studi at City
University of New York by a "..-...,..,..., � -=-�==_n____,
federal judge August 4th. t J' � "
Judge Kenneth C.onboy
ruled that while Jeffri had
made "hateful, poisonous and
reprehensible statements" in a
1991 speech in Albany and be­
haved in a "thuggish" way, his
removal had violated his consti­
tutional rights .
In May, Jeffri s w s
aw rd 400,000 by a court
jury in a civil suit against uni­
'v rsity officials. University of­
ficials plan to appeal th jury's
findings as well as Judge Con- '--------
boy' findings, contending that DR. LEONARD JEFFRIES
Jeffri ' speech as nti-Se-
mitic and that tb uni ity in its decision to remove
J ffri from hi position.
SOUTHFIELD
Mrs" Michigan won't give up title
SOUTHFIELD, M1 - A woman award the Mrs. Michigan
title will be barred from th natio I Mrs. USA contest in
Texas be use her husband is Bla ,th woman's ttomey
said.
Kathi Perry, a white 31-year-old moth r of 0 who wor
as a flight.at ndant, won th Michi n title in May. She
was asked to relinquish her title t days after p geant
officials said they di covered sh nud in th p III r
1992 issue of Playboy m gazi n .
Perry says sh will not give up her Mrs. Michigan titl .
"From th very ginning it p nt to both my
husband and myself that th nt ffi . und to
unacceptable winn rs," P rry
Sue Holland, national .
w repl when h fail 0 . h w u
contest. Perry mu t linqui h h 'T 'town
to obligations te p an WlIUl r
barred for b ing f atur d In Playb
WASHINGTON
Cabinet pushes Ii
economics to Urb n
Que