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Page A2 (Ohseruer Vote Wanted from Hip-Hop Generation » Young encouraged to flex political muscle Rap mogul Russell Simmons (center) addresses a hip-hop summit in Detroit Saturday to encour age young people to vote in the fall elections. He was joined by Chris Lighty (left) and Joseph “the Rev. Run ’ Simmons o f Run-DMC. (AP Photo) (A P) — T he hip-hop generation must educate itself and head to the polls in this fall*selection,according to speakers at the H ip-H op Summit, w hich drew artists and others from the m usic industry. Rap m ogul Russell Sim m ons, whose H ip-H op Summit Action Net w ork puts on the traveling event. said the young must make a differ ence in their com m unities and the world. “T hose o f us w ho w ork in the hip-hop industry know this is the b est g e n e ra tio n in th e w o rld ,” Sim m ons told a crow d o f music fans Saturday at the Fox T heatre in D e troit. “A nd com e N ovem ber, they are going to see that this is the m ost pow erful generation that the w orld has seen.” Sim mons said die pow er o f hip hop com es from its ability to unite people o f different races and reli gions. “It’s very im portant that w e flex these muscles in November," he said. The H ip-H op T eam Vote effort holds voter registration drives at sum m it cities. It recently registered 50,000 voters in Los A ngeles and 80,000 in Philadelphia. M idw ay through Saturday’s event, the group said it had signed up at least 70,000 M ichigan voters - including 40,000 in Detroit. May 26. 2004 Posey Falls to City Hall Insiders Local leader defeated in mayor's race The cam paign trail ends for Port land mayoral candidate Jam es Posey, a northeast Portland business ow ner and A frican-Am erican com m unity 1 activist. Posey w as easily outdistanced in the election by form er police chief T om Potter w ho suiprised critics by earning 42.3 percent o f the vote. He will face City C om m issioner Jim Francesconi, w ho earned 34.5 per cent o f the vote, in a runoff election in Novem ber. Posey w on 5.1 percent o f vote and Phil Busse, editor o f the Portland M ercury and a north Portland resi dent, earned 7.2 percent. In other races, C ity C om m is sioner Randy L eonard w on re-elec tion w ith m ore than 50 percent o f the vote. C ity C ouncil hopefuls N ick Fish and Sam A dam s, running to fi 11 F rancesconi' s seat, wi 11 co m pete in the N ovem ber runoffs as neither secured a m ajority vote. In aclosely-w atched race for state representative in north and north east Portland, C hip Shields beat out T ina Kotek for the Democratic nomi nation. Shields, executive director o f Bet ter People, a northeast Portland jo b training program for form er inmates, captured 4,628 votes and Kotek, a ch ild ren ’s services advocate, re ceived 3,793 votes. Shirley W hite- head Freeman had 545 votes to win James Posey the Republican nomination. Shields and Freem an will face o ff in the No vem ber general election. M ul tnom ah County com m ission ers Lonnie Roberts and M aria Rojo de Steffey won their re-elections, despite criticism about R ojo de Steffey's involvem ent with deciding in secret to allow same-sex marriages in the county. County Commissioner Lisa Naito, another leader in the same-sex marriage decision, will face a runoff against sec ond-place finisher Ron McCarty. Presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry w on m ore than 80 percent o f the vote in the D em ocratic Party, com pared to his rival, O hio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, w ho secured 16 percent o f vote. Lawyer Calls Arrest Harrowing Ordeal Fingerprint points to someone else in Spain bombing The Clinton River in Shelby Township, Mich, overtakes local buildings as flood waters have caused the river to overflow its banks. (AP photo) Storms Devastate Midwest T housands o f homes and businesses had no pow er M onday across the M idw est because o f thunderstorm dam age, and flooding filled basem ents and blocked roads. M ore than 20 M ichigan counties w ere under flood w arnings and several rivers were over flood stage. T w o tornadoes touched dow n Sunday in W isconsin and tw o were reported in Michigan. Earlier, three people were killed Friday when wind blew trees onto vehicles in M ichigan, a tornado killed a w oman in N ebraska and flooding killed a woman in Iowa. 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D o esn ’t Mr. F rancesconi know any professional A frican try runner and his wife. bags, a partially burnt log, a Bible, a A m erican adults, business ow ners o r teachers that he could display in They reported seeing an older stack o f old W orld B<x>k Encyclope his cam paign? (Hint: Baruti A rthuree, Sam Brooks, Matt H ennessee, Roy man with w hite bushy hair and a dias, rakes and other tools. A rope Jay, Bernie Foster, Noel W ebb, Joyce H arris, Jo C renshaw , Jam es W inters and Pual K nauls, ju s t to nam e a few .) beard, and a young girl at what ap swing, a tilled vegetable garden and F rancesconi bragging about finding “opportunities” for 7(X) gang kids peared to be a “wel I -establ ¡shed tran - a small creek were nearby. seem s hard to believe. T he young man that he used in the com m ercial only sient cam p.” They called police on A police dog found the pair hud exhibited a stereotype. Instead o f show ing a young A frican A m erican April 28. dling behind a tree about 50 yards m ale w ho said “before I m et Jim , I w as selling drugs and trying to stay That afternoon, North Precinct from the camp. aw ay from the police” , I w ould have preferred it say “before I met Jim , I Sgt. M ichael Barkley sent fouroffic- The man and girl told police they w as not getting any business from the city, but over the past several ers on all-terrain vehicles to find the had lived in the park for four years. years, Jim has assisted m e in not only getting huge contracts, but also pair but they d id n ’t find them. The pair appeared clean, well-fed finding gainful em ploym ent for others in my neighborhood. The next m orning, the runner es and healthy, Barkley said, and the F rancesconi, w hat a phony! corted police to the site. girl was well-spoken beyond her - D em arold Steward A fter an hour-and-a-half hike. years. 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