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October 26, 2016 Page 15 Contract with Police lic deserve the opportunity to weigh-in under new leadership he should be the one negotiating regarding the terms of a new it. contract. We shouldn’t have to The Mayor-Elect and the pub- wait six years to have an impact C ontinued from p age 7 the next contract since it hasn’t expired. This contract is a big money giveaway without any public benefit. The elimination of the 48-hour rule looks good as a talking point but this is out- weighed by replacing it with leg- islation that ensures it will take longer than 48 hours for officers to both review the video and write their reports because they will be able to wait to review body-cam video. With no timeline in place this rule is worse than the 48 hour People in Power Who Do Not Want Us to Vote C ontinued from p age 6 Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Missis- sippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Caroli- na, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. It’s no accident that the states most likely to pass new voting restrictions were those with the highest African-American turnout in 2008, those with the highest Hispanic population growth be- tween 2000 and 2010, and those formerly covered under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act before it was struck down by the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder. Of the 11 states with the highest African-American turnout in 2008, six have new restrictions in place. Of the 15 jurisdictions previously covered by Section 5, nine have new restrictions in place and four of them enacted restrictions direct- ly after the Shelby County deci- sion: Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas. rule it will replace. We the public expect and deserve better public access, oversight and influence on this policy. JoAnn Hardesty is president of the NAACP Portland Chapter 1120. Make no mistake, there are people in power who do not want African-Americans, young people, senior citizens and other vulnera- ble populations do vote. We cannot let them stop us. Marc H. Morial is president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League. It Does Good Things TM This page is sponsored by Oregon Lottery C alendar October 2016 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 10 Columbus Day Thanksgiving Day in Canada James Marshall born, 1942 17 Black Poetry Day San Francisco Earthquake (1989) 24 National Bologna Day United Nations Day 31 Halloween Juliette Gordon Low Born in 1860, started Girl Scouts in 1912 11 Eleanor Roosevelt born, 1884 First Steam-Powered Ferryboat began operations, 1811 12 Farmer’s Day Dia de la Raza (Mexico) 19 Mason-Dixon Line Established (1767) Puerto Rico Became U.S. Colony, 1898 Thomas Edison Electric Light, 1879 Final Revolutionary War battle (1781) 25 Pablo Picasso Born in Spain in 1881 13 National Poetry Day (England) Margaret Thatcher born in 1925 18 26 Hillary Rodham Clinton born, 1947 International Red Cross Organized In Geneva, 1863 R 20 Sir James Chadwick (Discoverer of the Neutron) born, 1891 27 Theodore Roosevelt born, 1858 FRIDAY 14 Dwight D Eisenhower (34th President) born, 1890 21 Guggenheim Museum Opens (1959) 28 Bill Gates born, 1955 Statue of Liberty dedicated, 1886 SATURDAY SUNDAY 15 16 Sweetest Day National Grouch Day 22 National Nut Day 29 Stock Market Crash, 1st Great Depression - 1929 Dictionary Day World Food Day 23 Mother-in-Law’s Day iPod First Revealed (2001) 30 John Adams born, 1735 Emily Post (author) born, 1873
