Click here for Full Issue of Fidelio Volume 8, Number 4, Winter 1999 PAID ADVERTISEMENT Stop Racist Attempt To Overturn Voting Rights Act November 10, 1999 icans to Save the Presidency. Let it also be said, that the To: The Hon. Ed Rendell, Chair- stink of racism in this action by man, Democratic Party attorney Keeney is, unfortunate- The Hon. Joe Andrew, Chair- ly, consistent with the racism man, Democratic National shown by his father, John C. Committee (Jack) Keeney, who, as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Gentlemen: Criminal Division of the Depart- e were shocked and dis- ment of Justice, has been a key gusted to learn that on figure in the illegal targetting, WAugust 16, 1999 the persecution, and prosecution of Democratic National Committee African-American public and (DNC), through its attorney, elected officials. John C. Keeney, Jr., submitted a Gentlemen, we understand plainly anti-civil rights, implicit- that these acts of gross injustice ly pro-racist argument before a occurred before your terms of Federal district court panel, office began. Be that as it may, it which concluded with a call for falls upon you to effect an imme- nullification of the 1965 Voting Civil rights heroine Fannie Lou Hamer en Bettmann/Corbis diate, public repudiation of this route to the Democratic Party National Con- racist policy. It is our firm posi- Rights Act. vention in August 1964. Hamer led the fight The argument was made in to seat the integrated Mississippi Freedom tion, that this must be done, not the course of a hearing on a DNC Democratic Party delegation, representing only to protect the personal 80,000 black Mississippians, against the honor and integrity of the motion to dismiss a lawsuit decision by the Party Credentials Committee brought by Democratic Presiden- and other Party officials to seat an all-white Democratic Party leadership, but tial candidate Lyndon LaRouche, delegation. also because the failure to do so and Democratic voters from Vir- will surely have disastrous conse- ginia, Louisiana, Texas, and Ari- LaRouche does not have to quences: We will lose the Y2000 zona. The lawsuit, which was defend his qualifications as a elections, including the Congres- filed in 1996, charges that Don- “bona fide” Democrat. It was the sional elections; the Democratic ald Fowler, then Chairman of the LaRouche faction of the Demo- Party, as the party of FDR and DNC, violated the Voting Rights cratic Party that took the point JFK, will be destroyed; and, we Act, when he ordered state against Newt Gingrich and his will be in danger of losing all Democratic parties to disregard “Contract on America,” when that we hold dear as Americans. the votes of thousands of Democ- some of us were busy “triangulat- Yours, rats in the 1996 Democratic Presi- ing.” And, it is well known, that dential primaries and caucuses, when President Clinton came Hon. Theo Mitchell, Esq., who had cast their votes for Lyn- under attack by Ken Starr, while Democratic Senator (ret.), don LaRouche. Ironically, Mr. some Democrats—cowards and South Carolina State Fowler justified his outrageous traitors—called on the President Legislature, behavior by lying that Lyndon to resign, the LaRouche faction of Former Democratic Party LaRouche was a racist! the Party mobilized support for Nominee for Governor, First, let it be said that Lyndon the President, and initiated Amer- South Carolina (continued) © 1999 Schiller Institute, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. PAID ADVERTISEMENT The following is a partial list of endorsers of the above Rep. Ed Vaughn, Detroit; First Vice Chair, Tennessee letter. Affiliations are for identification purposes only. Legislative Black Caucus Rep. Ulysses Jones, Jr., Memphis *Indicates former office-holder Mississippi Rep. Larry Miller, Memphis U.S. CONGRESS Rep. Eric Fleming, Jackson Rep. Larry Turner, Memphis Rep. Mervyn M. Dymally,* Calif.; former Rep. David Gibbs, West Point Rep. Joe Towns, Memphis Chair, Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Leonard Henderson, Clarksdale Rep. Rufus Jones,* Memphis Rep. James R. Mann,* Greenville, S.C. Rep. Robert Huddleston, Sumner Rep. Ira H. Murphy,* Memphis STATE LEGISLATORS Rep. Walter L. Robinson, Jr., Bolton Virginia Alabama Rep. Alfred Walker, Jr., Columbus Sen. L. Louise Lucas, Portsmouth Sen. George Clay, Tuskegee Missouri Del. Mary T. Christian, Newport News Sen. E.B. McLain, Brighton Rep. Frank Williamson,* St. Louis Del. Jerrauld Jones, Norfolk Nebraska Sen. Sundra Escott-Russell, Birmingham Del. William P. “Billy” Robinson, Jr., Norfolk Sen. George Bill Burrows,* Adams Sen. Charles Steele, Jr., Tuscaloosa; National Del. W. Ferguson Reid,* Richmond Board, SCLC Sen. Don Eret,* Dorchester West Virginia Rep. William Clark, Prichard Nevada Del. Floyd Fullen,* Shinnston Sen. Joseph M. Neal, Jr., Detroit; Chair, Rep. Johnny Ford, Tuskegee Wisconsin Legislative Black Caucus Rep. Andrew Hayden, Uniontown Sen. Monroe Swan,* Milwaukee Rep. Marion Bennett,* Las Vegas Rep. John Hilliard, Birmingham Virgin Islands Rep. Lonnie Chaney,* Las Vegas Sen. George Goodwin, St. Croix Rep. Tommie Houston, Birmingham New Hampshire Rep. Thomas Jackson, Thomasville MUNICIPAL AND OTHER ELECTED Rep. William H. McCann, Jr.,* Dover OFFICIALS Rep. Bryant Melton, Jr., Tuscaloosa New Mexico Rep. Joseph Mitchell, Mobile Richard Arrington, Mayor,* Birmingham, Rep. Fred Luna, Los Lunas Ala. Rep. Demetrius Newton, Birmingham Rep. James Roger Madalena, Jemez Pueblo Robert Avery, City Council, Gadsden, Ala.; Rep. George Perdue, Birmingham New York President,* Alabama Black Caucus of Local Rep. John W. Rogers, Jr., Birmingham Assemb. Samuel D. Bea, Jr., Bronx Elected Officials Rep. James L. Thomas, Selma North Carolina Rufus Lee, Mayor Pro-Tem, Geneva, Ala. Rep. George Grayson,* Normal Sen. Luther H. Jordan, Jr., Wilmington Essie Madison, Mayor, McMullen, Ala. Arkansas Rep. Alma Adams, Greensboro Ms. Bennie R. Crenshaw, City Council, Sen. Roy C. “Bill” Lewellen, Marianna Rep. Jerry Braswell, Goldsboro Selma, Ala. Rep. Jimmie Lee Wilson*; First V.P., Arkansas Rep. Milton “Toby” Fitch, Wilson Albert Turner, Perry County Commissioner, State Conference, NAACP, Helena Rep. Howard Hunter, Conway Marion, Ala. Rep. Steve Jones, West Memphis Rep. Doc Brown,* Weldon Fred Washington, President, City Council, Rep. James Jordan,* Monticello Rep. James P. Green, M.D.,* Henderson Tuskegee, Ala. California North Dakota Frances Osuna, Mayor, Guadalupe, Ariz. Assemb. Chester B. Wray,* Rocklin Sen. Dale Marks,* Ypsilanti Albert Carroll, Jr., City Council, Avondale, Connecticut Rep. Ray Meyer,* Sioux County Ariz. Rep. Ernest Newton, Bridgeport Ohio William J Edwards, Director, Ward 5, Hot Florida Sen. Rhine L. McLin, Dayton Springs, Ark. Rep. Addie Greene, West Palm Beach Sen. Eugene Branstool,* Utica Louis Byrd, Mayor/City Council, Lynwood, Georgia Calif. Rep. John Barnes, Cleveland Rep. Lester Jackson, Savannah Gilbert B. Grijalva, Mayor, Calixico, Calif. Rep. Vernon Sykes, Akron Rep. George Maddox, Decatur Ramiro Morales, Mayor, Bell Gardens, Calif. Rep. Vermel Whalen,* Cleveland Rep. Eugene Tillman, Brunswick Pennsylvania Kathy Navejas, Mayor,* Hawaiian Gardens, Hawaii Calif. Rep. Harold James, Philadelphia; Special Rep. Michael P. Kahikina, Honolulu Assistant to the President, National Black Ricardo Sanchez, Mayor, Lynwood, Calif. Illinois Caucus of State Legislators Delores Zurita, City Council, Compton, Calif. Rep. Coy Pugh, Chicago Rep. Thaddeus Kirkland, Chester; Chaplain, Virginia Wyatt Deckard, City Council* and Indiana National Black Caucus of State Legislators; Mayor,* Perris; Board Member, Val Vero Sen. Cleo Washington, Southbend Vice Chair, Pennsylvania Legislative Black Unified School Dist., Calif. Kentucky Caucus Willie Marshall, Vice Mayor, South Bay, Fl. Rep. Perry Clark, Louisville Rep. John Myers, Philadelphia Eugene Jefferson, City Council, Lake City, Fl. Louisiana Rep. William R. Robinson, Pittsburgh; Ken Hill, City Council, Albany, Ga. Rep. Arthur Morrell, New Orleans Treasurer, Pennsylvania Legislative Black James Mays, County Commisioner, Lee Maryland Caucus County, Ga. Sen. Clarence Mitchell IV, Baltimore Rep. W. Curtis Thomas, Philadelphia Rosemarie Love, Cook County Sen. John Jeffries,* Baltimore Rep. Leanna Washington, Philadelphia; Commissioner,* Chicago, Ill. Sen. Lena K. Lee,* Baltimore Chair, Philadelphia Black Elected Officials James Hayes, City Council, Urbana, Ill. Sen. Clarence Mitchell III,* Baltimore Rhode Island Frank Kreidermacher, Township Board Del. Clarence Davis, Baltimore Sen. Charles D. Walton, Providence Chairman, Mt. Vernon, Ill. Del. Michael Dobson, Baltimore Rep. Maxine Bradford Shavers, Newport Thomas V. Barnes, Mayor,* Gary, Ind. Del. Wendell Phillips, Baltimore South Carolina Tim Scott, Mayor, Burlington, Iowa Massachusetts Sen. Robert Ford, Charleston Ernest N. Lewis, Jr., Commissioner of United Rep. Benjamin Swan, Chair, Legislative Black Sen. Maggie Wallace Glover, Florence Government, Kansas City, Kan. Caucus, Springfield Sen. Herbert Fielding,* Charleston Kathryn Gaeddert, Mayor, Newton, Kan. Michigan Rep. Walter Lloyd, Walterboro Jeffrey A. Roberts, Mayor, Hutchinson, Kan. Rep. Lamar Lemmons, Detroit Rep. W.B. “Willie” McMahand, Piedmont Raquel Fleer, City Commissioner Ottawa, Rep. Fletcher Smith, Greenville Kan. PAID ADVERTISEMENT Chris Williams, City Council, Lafayette, La. Joe O. Holguin, City Council, San Angelo, Rev. C. Blakley, National Congress of Black William Devine, City Council, Capital Tex. Churches, Los