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Hello. My name is Marion Scott. The Edmonson Heights Seventh Day Adventist Church invites you to attend a benefit concert featuring Clifton Davis, former TV star of That's My Mama on Saturday, June 21st at Woodlawn High School, beginning at 8:30 p.m. The concert is open to the public and proceeds will benefit the church's mortgage fund. For tickets and further information, call five, 663635. Hello, my name is Shereen Burnette. The Baltimore branch of the NAACP will be hosting the 1986 NAACP National Convention from June 29th through July 3rd at the Baltimore Convention Center. We encourage community participation by attending the many activities that will be offered to minority vendors are also invited to sell non-food items and booths that will be available for a small fee. For further information, please call Keith Shortridge at 7923933. If your group organization would like to announce an event, please write us in care of City Line WJC TV Television Hill, Baltimore, Maryland 212, one one. Or call us for further information at 46600013. Between the hours of nine and five. Welcome back to this special edition of City Line where we're meeting the candidates. Right now, we've been talking about the seventh Congressional District. We'd like to take a couple of moments to get a look at exactly what that means here and take a look at the makeup of the seventh Congressional District. As you can see, the district encompasses parts of Baltimore as well as Baltimore County. It is approximately 70 to 80% of blacks living in the district. And in total, there are more than one half million, I believe, 574,000 people living in the seventh District. Okay. Back to our People's forum. That's right. I'm going to continue with the questions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=28.65,209.81"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This gentleman right here. Yes. I'd like to put all the candidates on the spot on drugs. The there are right now for $100 billion internationally dealing with the drug business, $100 billion going through our banks. There have been tens of thousands of violations of federal secrecy standards. On the question of drugs, nothing is done. Now, one banker is put in jail. I like to know if the gentleman in the ladies president will have the courage to step forward and begin to go after the citizens above suspicion. The people who are higher up that are well known to be involved in protecting the international drug cartel. Very pointed question. Let's begin to our right. We're misunderstood. Yes. As far as it being a matter of courage, those who know me and my reputation in the community is a very principled and commitment committed one. I don't believe anyone is above the law. But I do want to say about the drug problem that to the extent we permit it to be the basis for our relationships with other countries, I think if we were farming out and promoting something other than military weapons to some of the countries who rely heavily on the drug income, that they could be induced to reduce the amount of drugs they produce. And that's on a foreign level. On a domestic level, I think that in addition to looking at the people who make the money, we have to examine why a nine year old child chooses drugs. I think we have to examine within our society, in our schools, homes, churches and on the streets. What is it about their reality that makes drugs preferable? I think that there are many, many roles that you as adults can play in diverting children from drugs so that it does not become an issue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=210.2,323.0"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And to answer your question directly, yes, I would like very much to have the opportunity to pick the put the big boys behind the bars. Okay. Anyone else would like to and respond to that, if I may. When I was running for state's attorney in Baltimore City and also was under consideration for the United States attorney for the state of Maryland, I advocated that the only way that you're going to solve the problem, as the question was us, is begin to hit at the direct source of the of the incoming flow of drugs into this country. Now, that's going to have to be done, number one, with our foreign policy that's going to direct itself to these nations that allow it to come in. And number two, as the gentleman who asked the question, is that the untouchables in terms of the people who are considered to be above the law and making the millions and millions of dollars connected with traffic. But I think that's also have to it has to be something else, and that is something in our community and our streets and our families and our homes and our churches that have to tell that our young people that this is not acceptable conduct, that it will be rejected. And we have to start a new morality within our communities to reject drugs. And I think so therefore, it's a threefold thing that has to happen at three different levels of our government and our national standards. May I be somewhat pessimistic in saying that, first of all, there's not a matter of having courage to send the big boys to jail. First of all, you must identify and then we go through the long, rigorous task of having trials and making sure that they did it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=323.72,405.65"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Whenever you have the kind of dollars involved that we have involved in the drug trafficking. It is very near impossible to control it. So we can talk about ways and means of doing it the most effective way. And the thing that concerns me is in the seventh District is what has been done by the community. We have situations where persons have called into the police department saying these persons are dealing in drugs. We want them out of our communities. That is the most effective way because you're not once you you get rid of one type boy, you have another to take his place. The same thing with a small dealer. And so therefore, it begins in the home. And I'm here. I'm talking about home in the community sense. People must say to their children that this is wrong and we must believe it is wrong and do something about it. Let me let me let me say this and I've said it earlier. I'll say it again and again. The drug problem is an international political problem. It is not really a community issue alone. It's much, much larger than that. The drug problem will be controlled when we come to grips with the international politics of the flow of drugs in this country. Half the budgets of some countries in the world is based on the drug traffic. What specifically would you do about it? There's not a whole lot a single congressperson can do except to bring to the attention of this country at all levels, and especially at the congressional level, where the problem is, everybody seems, should be silent about where the problem is. That's what you need to start doing, announce it, particularly to say where it is identified, this drug.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=406.19,498.9"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I want to stress that we had a policy on drugs and we took it to Annapolis cause Mitchell presented it to the House Judiciary Committee. This bill stated that what we would have to do is get behind the big banks that are laundering dirty money, which is dope money. The only way we could do this, unless they had $100,000 that hadn't been reported. Then they were to confiscate this money and present it to the different funds and benefits that have already been cut. Class Mitchell presented this bill. He even brought down a busload of young people to the Committee on Dope. I testified on this drugs. Nothing was done. They refused to pass the bill. Mrs. Jan, people passed. Sorry to interrupt you. We're going to take a break, but when we come back, we'd like to come back to you because don't forget, the focus is the national office, the seventh Congressional District. When we come back, we'd like to begin with you and asking what is it that you specifically will do to cut the drug trade in this country? We'll take a break and come. Welcome back again to City Lines. Meet the candidate, a food for both our viewers at home, as well as our studio audience. To meet the candidates vying for the seventh Congressional District we left Ms.. Hazel Judd was discussing the drug trafficking. I'd like to allow you to continue this journey. However, I must ask you to respond directly to the question which involved going after those individuals who are in the upper echelons of the money making in the drug situation. Well, as I said before, we had presented this bill in Annapolis, and it didn't go through. We had only four people that was on the bill.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=500.97,772.49"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now, if I was in Congress, what I would do would try to see that all the the ships that do come over here, that get through, I should say, with this dope. Now in Peru, Garcia did have a rule in a bill that he put before his people, and he did stop the boats from coming through. But we still have the problem with Colombia. Now, what I would do, like I said before, I don't know whether I'm sticking to what you had said, but I have to get this out briefly. Still say that the bankers, that we should go after them. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yes, Mr. Kim. For me? Yeah. I think we need a an approach that declares war on the foreign front and domestically against drugs. And I want to be very specific about what we can do and not what we cannot do on the foreign front. I mentioned earlier there are too many nations that enjoy most favored nation status and trading rights with this country and southeast and South West Asia, Lima, Bolivia, and other countries that continue to import into this country illicit drugs. They continue to grow them. A revocation of that most favored nation status would in fact cause those countries to realize that they have more to lose than to gain by continuing that. Also, we have the wherewithal in our Agricultural Department to encourage alternative crop production, that is, to show them how to grow wheat, barley, grain, corn, other materials and other crops that will make up for the money that's being lost here at home, which is even more important. I have been advocating that we have mandatory sentencing for drug pushers, whether they are the higher ups or those who are at the lower end of the totem pole.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=773.6,887.66"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think we have to get strong about that and make it firm in terms of what we're going to do so that there is no confusion about our policy. And I want to agree with Mr. Fletcher's comment that domestically also there's got to be a war for the winning of the minds of the individuals who are four or five and six years of age in their formative years now, so that they when they become 13, 14, 15, 20 or 25, will have a value system from which to make good judgments and then allow drugs to take over them in their communities. You see in Baltimore there are some communities that tolerate drugs and there are others that do not. We have to do that and we can do it. Ladies and gentlemen, if that is our commitment and our priority. Reverend Phillips, let me just say a word. What is. I agree with that, dear. When you start talking about this drug problem, as long as the foreign policy of this country is determined by accumulation and domination, you're going to have a drug problem. Secondly, what we can do on the local level. I've been involved in working with street gangs and drug addicts of the last 19 years trying to do some little things with some of these youngsters and trying to pull them out of this bag, but mandatory sentencing and send them to jail. Let me tell you, when drugs get tight on the street, the cleanest drugs you get is down. Just everybody knows that there's a traffic down there and all through these prisons. And we've got to do something to really redeem and turn these youngsters around and give them some other alternative. Again, dealing with the basic calls as to why folks go to drugs in the first place.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=888.23,980.75"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That is what I think we've got to deal with. And that's part of the education issue. That's part of the job issue. That's part of this is a societal problem, as is teenage pregnancy. All of these are symptoms of the same basic cause. We've got to shift priorities around where people become the most important factor on this universe. We are not at that point foreign policy wise or domestic policy wise. Okay. At this time, the candidates would like to give you a couple of moments to take issue if there are any things said so far this evening by other candidates. Questions raised from the audience that you have not had a chance to address to your satisfaction are going to give you a few moments again. Each, we just ask that you try to keep it brief. To either take issue or continue a response. Let me be allowed just to offer an alternative position, if I might. I'm a person who believes, who has will and commitment. I believe that all things are possible. And so I don't shirk from problems and say, well, there's nothing that we can do about it because or as long as something exists, it's going to always exist. We are given will and commitment as individuals to make change. That's why we live. That's why we breathe. That's why we raise families. We work. We try to make a better world. But we cannot do that. Ladies and gentlemen, if we assume that we have no power, we have all the power we need to turn things around and to make a change. And until the day I die, I'm going to hold on to that belief, because that's what has made changes possible in this world since the beginning of time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=981.35,1069.72"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let me just add, I think the question was asked in terms of number one, two and three at some time ago in terms of what is the importance of or beyond one important issue. I've indicated education, but I want to say what our basic natural resource is, our children. And I think that we have seen in this nation every direction by this whole nation, which Maryland and the city of Baltimore has followed, we found that Maryland is one of the most more prosperous states that is less than the spending of education. We found that Baltimore City has decreased its spending budget over the year in terms of its money, in the participation of the education process, in terms of the injection of money from the Baltimore City voters. I find this deplorable. Bricks and mortars in terms of our harbor and hotels are fine, but we cannot let the neglect of children. And I think we have to change the priorities around. We cannot continue to close schools. You can't come into the seventh Congressional District from elected day and tell me you got to close down the high schools like you're closing Eastern High School with no formulation, no basis whatsoever. And then tell me it's because the kids are not performing or telling me it's because the school is unpopulated. Well, tell me this is a lack of money when I know that there's $300 million set aside in state budgets, but you're redirecting your priorities to other things. These are the things that must be attacked. As a congressman, I want to be more than just in Washington, D.C. I want to be here in Baltimore City. I want to be here in Maryland. I want to be gadfly. This is whoever the mayor is, whoever the governor is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=1070.95,1147.9"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If you're coming into the seventh Congressional District, which is one of the most pivotal and powerful districts in this state, because we're the seventh coast, Baltimore goes, but the seventh goes, Maryland goes. And I want to exert the political influence that this district has never put together, never harnessed, and never, in fact, exerted. If you don't think the seventh Congressional District is important. Look at how the seventh Congressional has just affected state politics with the running of Mr. Metropolitan that governors it's changed the whole political structure of the state that shows the importance of the Senate. Is that a metro or is that the seventh District? What's up? Is that parent J. Mitchell, or is that the seventh Congressional? I'll say it, Penn. I'm not knocking and taking away from his popularity as an individual, but you also must remember that he comes to that race carrying the seventh Congressional District. I don't put you on a ticket for any place unless they figure you bring something with you. Just. This guy's response to anything that you've heard thus far that you want to take issue with from the other candidates who spoke. Ladies and gentlemen, the rhetoric is great. It sounds good. The philosophy is great and it's noble. And the Congress of the United States is serious business. It's not rhetoric. It's not a ballad. It's not song singing. It's hard work. It's understanding. It's knowing that process. It takes a great deal of skill. Let's talk about reality. Freshmen in the Congress of the United States will do very little except get acquainted with that process. Let me say to everybody here, the employment in this country and specifically in the seventh Congressional District is a major issue because it depends on and hinges on almost everything else that happens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=1148.17,1261.18"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You give a person a decent and meaningful job and you stop much of the crime. Give a person a meaningful and decent job and the training will come and the self-worth will also follow. Of course, that was Dr. August is they are not. The fellows will get to you as soon as we come back. Right now we have to take a break. Please stay with us for the. If you looked at your watch and think that it stopped, you're wrong. This is a special 90 minute edition of Sitting on where we're meeting the candidates. When we left off, candidates were taking issue with topics raised before or with the things they would like to add that they started. Before we left off, we wanted to go to Reverend Phillips. We'll let you begin this blog. Know, I would just like to go back again in terms of where we are with that Gramm-Rudman Bill Gramm-Rudman-Hollings. You know, that took effect in March. I think it was something like $11.7 billion that's already been knocked off in terms of the budget or continued to take effect until the Supreme Court decides one way or the other. We've already we're all already hurt by that process, even whichever way the United States Supreme Court decides. I think it's a shirking of the responsibility of the Congress, the ability or inability to bite the bullet with the same problem in the state legislature. In terms of the budget, what needs to be cut? How can you cut? That's what that's what I'm talking about when I talk about the shifting of priorities. That's what's got to be done on a national level. I don't think the problem that we're dealing with in terms of the and the unemployment, in terms of the teenage pregnancy, in terms of crime, all of those are interrelated.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=1261.63,1467.65"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Prisons, criminal justice, they have to be dealt together as a unit. The problem is we isolate and dissect the society as if these things operate in a vacuum. They don't agree with that. There There's very little that we'll be able to do as first term congresspeople in Congress. I'm not going to be able to stop the drug traffic first term or second term in Congress, but I can at least turn one or two folk around or begin to investigate, begin to research to deal with it. But I think as a matter of priorities, human beings and the sacredness of human life, we've lost it. I think life you have teenage suicides. You have not just teen issues that suicide rates up all over the country, loss of reverence, of sacredness of life. Carl Jung said years ago that the basic problem of every individual over age of 35 is of a spiritual nature. Okay, I beg to differ with all of my colleagues here. A freshman congressperson is nevertheless a congressperson. And as a congresswoman, one of the things we must look at is first that there is only one black woman in Congress. So it is no accident that our issues are not being discussed this year. It's no accident that child care is not a major issue. It's no accident that many of the issues that are very, very crucial to black women are not being discussed at all. It is one of the major reasons I decided to enter this race as a freshman congresswoman. The first thing within 30 days. You should already have a written plan in place. The personnel identified the district segmented by units that are manageable, deployed individuals into each community to bring the congressional office right down to the street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=1468.61,1588.4"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I have already identified those schools within the district. We're running out of time where we would like to get to the other candidates before we end. So I need to make one quick point. Quickly, please. The second point I want to make is that a congressional seat or any other seat belongs to the people. This is the first time in 16 years the issues will be discussed and a person chosen to take this seat for just two years. Okay, Mrs. Judd, this is what I'm going to say to everyone. If I am elected Congresswoman, what I would really do is do the best I can, work with my constituents, have them work with me. I'm not going to say I am going to do anything because we cannot do these things alone. We have to have our constituents to work with us. And whatever I do, if someone ever comes to see me, I will always be there to see them. Not saying that I'm at a conference and I cannot pay attention to listen to what you have to say because I mean, a lot of our officials work today. I have been there to see them and they have said that they weren't there. They was in conference. They would send their aides out to talk with you. Oh, this is appalling. Already, I've had community organizations get together. We have even sent for our city legislator district said, could you bring it to an end? Thank you. We're going to take another question from the audience. Thank you very much. I think all of. The candidates will agree that over the past years we've had a lot of moral persuasion from our incumbent congressperson, and I'm sure that all would agree that families are central to the seventh Congressional District and the hurts that those families are going through in the seventh Congressional District should be of concern to all of the candidates.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=1589.45,1711.21"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That is meant magnified by the point that Baltimore has the eighth largest infant mortality rate in the nation and is first in the seventh Congressional District in teenage pregnancies. I want to know what moral persuasion that each one of these candidates will bring to that particular problem in their district and in the Congress of the United States. If we could have the answers quickly. Let's start with Sandy Stewart. Coming out of 30 years of family life with four grown children and seven grandchildren. I have a very deep appreciation for the strength available to us in the family with regard to teen pregnancy. Young women are having children because they are themselves caught up in a terrible web of social injustice, of racism, of unemployment. We need to look very carefully at those systems that deprive us of our self-esteem and of our value. When a woman considers herself valuable. She does not subject her body or her mind to things that are damaging. To ignore that she bring that on a child. My role in Congress will be to set that role models, to explain, to share and lead with our young women that that is not the road that they want to take. Let me begin by saying that I think the best moral persuasion is to set a good example in the way you live, in the way you work, in the way you present yourself in a community. Be a model. But in addition to being a model at whatever level, be an instrument through which programs can be initiated and developed and followed through in the schools, in the homes and the community programs in churches bring those forces together. Started the day care programs have a very viable program in sex education for young men and for young women.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=1712.68,1832.0"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In terms of family life and morality. First of all, I don't think it can be legislated. I think he begins in the home. The moral conduct begins in the home and that which we call conscience begins there. I think that what happens is that is it begins in the home. Then it is fostered in the schools and also in the churches. I think that we have to believe that in what is right and what is wrong, and that is taught in the home. I think to a very large extent, the Congress president can has the power to call people together and say what is wrong in our community? Why are we slipping? As far as moral conduct, conduct is concerned, We reached the point where human life has become very cheap. We no longer adhere to the sanctity of life, if you will, because we've seen many of us have seen the signs that say us killing us equals genocide. We must change that, this judge. Well, as far as teenage pregnancy is concerned, I'm the mother of six children and I have seven grandchildren. This is what I think. It's not only comes from the home because there are some very, very good parents that try to do the best they can with the children. They bring their children up the right way. They send their children to church. A lot of this comes from television, too. Have you noticed some of the things that the on television, some young child is sitting there looking at what they say? I think all of this and that is really what is happening. They exploit sex openly. Thank you. Yeah. Listen, I want to say, Hazel, that I agree with that. And I agree with both Isaiah and Gus on that also.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=1834.96,1933.49"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I am the only candidate that has been calling for a national initiative on teen pregnancy. And I agree, you can't legislate morality, but you can legislate education programs. You can legislate counseling programs nationwide. You can provide through the government incentives. You can do certain things through outreach to turn this problem around. I've said earlier, and I will continue to say, if there's a national commitment and the national will, we can reduce teen pregnancy by 50% in this country over the next decade. But it is something that requires all of us, individually and collectively, whether we are candidates for office or whether we are just individuals in the community. This is our problem. It will only be solved with our help. Thank you, Mr. Peres. My wife was in the audience and has campaigned with me throughout this campaign. She had I have discussed this issue many times because we were raising two teenagers in Baltimore City. And we believe that you have to come back to the basics, that we're going to have to set the examples. We're going to have to come back into the churches. We're going to have to come back into the community. Everybody says you can't legislate it. And that's correct. We've got to come back to the fundamentals. I think we almost have to start a movement within the churches. We've got to Bethlehem and we sit there and we listen to the preacher there. And he's right. We have to start a revolution back in the churches, just like it was when the civil rights movement took place. We have to start all over again from the basic fundamentals within our community. And finally, Reverend Phillips, I think the problem in terms of teenage pregnancy is a problem of a total society and not just not just teenagers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=1935.05,2026.07"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My feeling is that we have to get out of this 9 to 5 mentality and we have to have programs operating between the hours of ten at night and six in the morning when these youngsters need some real help. At that time of the evening. There's nothing and nothing positive going on. It's another world. It's another culture. We need, I feel, to do some reprograming coming together with the churches, the schools, the other civic institutions, sitting down and mapping out some positive programs to deal with young teenagers, period. There's nothing much for them to do in our society, especially after the age after the hours of five in the afternoon. Thank you, candidates. We've got to take a break. When we come back, some final comments. Please introduce. Well, we're just about at the end of this people's forum. And we do promise you one thing, we will do it again. There's so many other issues that were not raised and need to be addressed. At some point in our final moments, we would like to have each question for each candidate to give us any summary thoughts that they have before we close tonight's show. And we will begin in alphabetical order with August as a dare. I said at the beginning, I say again, I am uniquely qualified to serve Maryland in the United States Congress by training, by experience, by commitment. I am the only one of the candidates with real experience in the United States Congress, in the House of Representatives, and I am the only candidate with training in the legislative process the Congress needs and Maryland needs experienced, knowledgeable, dedicated men and women serving in that country. I am that person. Thank you, Mr. Adair. Mr. Fletcher. Ladies and gentlemen, you've heard much eloquence this evening from candidates, all of whom are qualified to fill the seat in the seventh Congressional District.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=2027.12,2231.73"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I am number one among that group. I believe that my emphasis will be on action. And that is the important thing, as has been said. We can promise the world, we can promise all the changes that we want to please you, present to please you. But at the same time, boil down to what can we realistically do? And I think, as someone has said, that we must approach the problem not only from the legislative angle, but also from by using the seat, the power of the seat in Congress to effectuate change within the community, at the community level, because we must have the support of you, the constituents. And therefore, I'm asking for your support as a human being who can empathize, sympathize, and commiserate with the problems which exist in our community. And together, I believe we can solve them. Thank you, Mr. Fletcher. This is Hazel. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, again. I think I'm uniquely qualified to because I would just love to talk about and try to do things for all people. We need help. What I'm saying? There is experience. Don't always take it that you have to have good common sense to know right from wrong. And this is what Mrs. McCain offered in the Filipino. She didn't have an experience at all, but she said it. Experience takes good commonsense to know right from wrong. And that is me. Mr. Romney, Thank you very much. This struggle to live with dignity, my friends, is a struggle that I did not learn about in the book or read about in the classroom. I saw it and I lived it like so many of you out there. I come before you now seeking your help, asking you to look at my legislative record over the last seven years where I've been on the issues when it really counted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=2232.87,2348.42"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If I've ever let you down, have I tried to serve with integrity and distinction? And when you answer those questions and the answer is yes, I want you to realize more importantly, that I need your help now. I need your prayers. I need your vote. I need your support. This is going to be a very crucial election. None of us can afford to go to sleep on it. And so I call for a campaign of inclusion, a crusade that will unite the seventh district, black, white, rich sections and poor sections. So no one is excluded from the political process and from making a change. Thank you, Mr. President. Hope a new horizon, a new idea. And I do it with all of you. Thank you, Mr. White. Thank you for your attention this evening. The seventh Congressional District is vast. It runs from Baltimore County and Woodlawn, bordered by Liberty Road before it runs to East Baltimore, northeast of Baltimore. Piers Morgan West, Baltimore, Southwest, Baltimore, below Baltimore County. It's a vast district bringing a total different political, geographic and political group together. I stood in Plains, Georgia, and several years ago with the president of the United States to be and Jerry Brown of California. What we'll be discussing on that afternoon, believe it or not, in front of the national press, we were discussing the seventh Congressional District and its importance because of this political geographical breakdown. You are extremely important and I want to represent all of the people at the seventh Congressional District. I want to reach out and bring a political organization back within the seven so that we can have that political power, which I believe we deserve. I want to bring the bacon home. I need you. I need your support.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=2349.05,2439.68"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I need your prayers. I need your vote. I believe we can do it. And I believe it can be a new day in the seventh Congressional District. Thank you. Thank you, Reverend Phillips. Thank you for hearing and listening to us this evening. As a legislator from the 41st District for the last eight years, chairman of the board of the delegation, for the last two years, I have been able to translate rhetoric into substance. Bringing home the bacon to Baltimore city of over $150 million in the last two years. I have been long before in politics. I have been a minister who's been active in the community for years. I feel that I have an understanding of what it means to be a servant, a public servant, therefore, one who understands the hurts, the pains and the needs of you, the public. I am your servant. Your agenda is my agenda. I ask you to give me the opportunity to represent you, to deal with the problems that confront all of us and to engage together in this bitter, difficult struggle. But beautiful struggle. Or better New World Order. Thank you. And last but not least, as Betty opened by saying Sandra Stewart, thank you to the listening audience and to the studio audience, I'd like to say thank you for your attention. I'd like to go on to say that the theme of my campaign is Take the Challenge. Our motto is empowerment through people, participation and resource management. Our credo $1, one vote, one hour at the polls. Throughout this summer, I will be on your street, in your neighborhood, your apartment buildings. I will look forward to seeing you meeting your kids. And I want to hear from you. I want to know what your issues are that I will need to put in priority order to take to Washington with me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=2440.13,2547.08"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In the meantime, I'd like you to assess what you've heard today. Make your decision on September 9th, sometime between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.. You don't have to do it now. Listen, watch here. And I'm sure you'll vote for me in September. Thank you very much. Thank you. There you have it. Not the end, but the beginning. We're, what, three months away? Three months away. And though you heard some issues today, certainly some of those issues will be shaped in many, many different ways. And there will be others that will have to be raised before it's all over on September 9th. That's true as well. The official filing deadline is still some time off. So we very well might see this race become even more complicated. Well, we've heard rumors of a certain person by the last name of Mitchell entering the race, and I'm sure that that will certainly make a different set of ingredients that we will have to consider. And, of course, there might be any other number of folks joining in. We also want to mention that we're going to do our darndest to before election time to do this again. So you have a chance after the candidates have heard those issues a little bit and we know exactly who's going to be there to, again, address the public as a group. Indeed. And after that point, you will have an opportunity to address ourselves specifically to some of the charges that have been levied during the campaign of the three months running until September 9th. Okay. We hope that we have been informed and we want to invite you to join us next week when we have a very special show Hour for Kids Sake segment. We want everybody to drop everything, wrap everything and read, read, not run, but read.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265#t=2547.71,2796.13"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105504/file/206265/transcript/48910/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And what we'll do is have the valedictorians and salutatorian of most of the high schools in the area on our show so that we can applaud some of the young people who are positive role models in our community. If you'd like to be members of the studio audience for that show, please call us at 481 1313 and reserve your space. And of course, we always want to invite our audience to let us know what they think of a job we're doing, the topics we're covering. So please feel free to write in. Oh my. Example mean I have 10 seconds. I guess not. That's our show for today. I'm Betty Bentley. I'm Jackie Hall. Have a good, good Sunday evening. 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