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Vote Wanted from
Hip-Hop Generation
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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.
Storms in O hioearly M onday knocked out pow er to more than 30,(XX)
hom es and businesses, utilities said. Several schools closed because
they had no electricity. More than 6,000 had no pow er in Indiana.
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I w as appalled by Jim F rancesconi’s television com m ercials in his
(A P) — A man and his 12-year- police found an elaborate cam p dug
m ayoral cam paign. He w ants to portray black m en as nothing m ore than
old daughter were discovered in a into a steep hillside.
dense, wooded are a o f Forest Park in
U nder a tarp-covered, w ood drug-selling gang m em bers w hile attem pting to be the great w hite savior
northwest Portland by a cross-coun framed shelter, they found sleeping o f o u r youth. 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
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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
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April 28.
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That afternoon, North Precinct from the camp.
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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!
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girl was well-spoken beyond her - D em arold Steward
A fter an hour-and-a-half hike. years.
North Portland
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