D.Z. states:
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I think Don Samuels was the first
minority AND the first Northsider to be elected from that river straddling
ward.
I've heard this alot lately. Don is, to the best of my knowledge , the
first minority. However, has everyone forgotten Sandra
Anne McC wrote:
I've heard this alot lately. Don is, to the best of my knowledge , the
first minority. However, has everyone forgotten Sandra Hilary?
I always liked her. She was a crusty one, had been a waitress, I
believe, before ascending to the Council. She talked straight up, no
Zach Coulter said:
I have heard an idea perpetuated here and elsewhere that the new 3rd and 5th
were gerrymandered in order to have Don Samuels and Natalie Johnson Lee run
against each other and that there was a racial component to the motivation
for doing so.
...I read CM Johnson-Lee say,
I have heard an idea perpetuated here and elsewhere that the new 3rd and 5th
were gerrymandered in order to have Don Samuels and Natalie Johnson Lee run
against each other and that there was a racial component to the motivation for
doing so.
Then I read CM Johnson-Lee say, Redistricting
I think the real concern, and it's warranted, is that the new boundaries
effectively reduce the possibility of minority voices at the city
council-level.
The northside minority populations are much more compacted into the new
5th ward, then they were in the old 3rd 5th.
The chances of
I read the strib article too, and I found some of Samuels comments to be very
insensitive and rude, but we can play that game all day. I wonder if anyone
else has noticed that among those who have taken sides in this race, there is a
very noticeable class divide in the 5th ward race.
This
I am somewhat confused by the statements attributed to CP Natalie
Johnson-Lee in the following Strib article. Unless I am mistaken, she was a
big supporter of the PEACE Foundation at its inception and even contributed
financially. What has changed?
Michelle Hill writes:
You speak about the Hodges-Samuels issue as if you are a concerned
citizenwell it was your email to the station asking for the suspension,
as a concerned citizen rather than as Don Samuels campaign manager.
Dennis Plante Responds:
For some odd reason, I don't
