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Welcome to a special 90 minute edition of city line. Hi, i'm jackie. And i'm betty bentley. Today City line has the distinct pleasure of bringing you a people's forum so you can meet the candidates vying for the seventh Congressional District seat. This is a very important political district to the black community having been carved out to give blacks a voting majority. This contest takes on added meeting when you consider the fact that the seventh District has been represented for eight terms by Parren J. Mitchell, who has announced his retirement and his new goal to be Maryland's lieutenant governor. Joining us today are Democratic candidates Augustus Adair, Wendell Phillips, Dwight Pettit, Hazel Judd, Kweisi Mfume, and Sandra Stewart. Democratic candidate Walter Manning was invited to be here today. However, we have not been able to contact him since he filed for his candidacy. Also joining us will be Republican candidate Isaiah Fletcher will allow each candidate an opportunity to make an opening statement and to tell why he or she is qualified for the job. And then we'll open the show for a people's forum. Of course, Jackie and I will be the moderators. And now for our 90 minute special edition of Cityline, Meet the Candidates, up next. Good morning. That's. That sounds strange. Good morning. Good morning. And happy Father's Day. And happy Father's Day to you. Thank you very much. Yes, we have the pleasure of doing what is perhaps the very first all candidates meeting on television. It is what City Line is calling? Meet the candidate. That's right. It's your opportunity to meet people who are running for the seventh Congressional District seat. And that's a very important seat for this particular district because it represents Maryland's only black candidate in the Congress.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=47.52,194.89"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Indeed, indeed. And what we will do is give each candidate an opportunity to make an opening statement, introducing him or herself, and then add a little bit later, we will have each one to address himself to his qualifications for the job itself. That's correct. And of course, we'll also give our audience here in the studio today ample opportunity to ask questions of the candidate. Now, I guess it's about time that we started to meet them. First up, Professor Augustus Adair. Hello. I'm Augustus, dear. How are you? I am running as a Democrat for the seventh Congressional District. Maryland needs and the seventh District needs an experienced, knowledgeable candidate representative in Congress. I am that person by experience, by training, and by commitment. Our lone Republican candidate on today's People's Forum is Isaiah Fletcher. My name is Isaiah Fletcher. I'm a Republican running, but at the same time, before anything else, I'm a human being who can identify with the problems that confront the seventh Congressional District. I have the experience educationally and also community wise in terms of helping to solve some of the problems within the community. For years, people have been talking about the black community and needing to get together. And I have seen through the years that this has not been done. I think that with the gift which God has given me to communicate with people and effectively work toward solutions, I think that I would be aware the candidate to vie for the position of Congressman from the seventh District. Next up is Democrat Hazel Judd Gray. Evening. I'm Hazel Jo, representative from the National Democratic Policy Committee. My qualifications are that I am dealing with the largest all political organization in the world. We are all over the world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=195.34,316.03"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm running for Congress because I want to see things that are done right and are in office. I want to see things done right for our people. That's why I'm running for Congress. Our fourth candidate is City Councilman Kwesi. Information. Good morning. This is not a perfect nation. Of course, we are not perfect people, but we're all called by God to a perfect mission. That mission ought to be to feed the hungry, clothe the naked house, the homeless, teach the illiterate, provide guidance for our young and security for our seniors. And although we don't have sovereign territory as individuals, we do have a sovereign responsibility. That is an honorable responsibility to serve and the Congress of the United States and to have the opportunity through will and commitment to dare to be different and to dare to make a difference. I have not given up on the American idea or on the American possibility, and I ask you not to give up. I'm convinced that this nation stands before the world as perhaps the last expression of a possibility of man devising a social order where justice is a separate rule and law is but an instrument where freedom is a dominant creed and order is but its principle. And so I ask you not to send me to Congress, but to go there with me. Thank you. Next up, attorney a Dwight Pettit, Democrat. Good morning. One of the things that I've been saying as I've moved around the city of Baltimore and Baltimore County, which comprises the seventh Congressional District, is before you tell me what you're going to do in Washington, what have you done in Baltimore City? What have you done in Baltimore County and what have you done in the state of Maryland? I believe I bring to this this campaign the experience and the background as a lawyer that's been involved on a national basis, as one who's been involved, and the top levels of government from Jimmy Carter right on through the White House, in the Congress.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=317.41,434.38"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I bring the type of experience on the national platform in the courts from the United States Court of claims to the federal courts and the state courts, and the major litigation of civil rights and rights of all people and consumer rights and landlord and tenant, what have you. I bring that type of background that says I have done something, I have found solutions. I have made a change. We're not talking about rhetoric here. You're talking about the most important job in this state in the seventh Congressional District, which is one of the most important districts in this nation, and especially in the state and in Baltimore City. And I want to bring the tools that I have developed over the years to make a change in this district and put this nation and this district and the state back in the right direction, which is now back to progress in education and jobs and welfare and the other areas. Our sixth candidate on today's People's Forum is the Reverend Wendell Phillips, who heads the Maryland delegation to the General Assembly. Good morning. I'm running for Congress because I feel very definitely that I am the best qualified of those running. I have been a part of the whole civil rights struggle in the late fifties up to the present. I have been through that period. I know the struggle. I know where we've been. I have for the last eight years, served in the Maryland General Assembly, in the House of Delegates as a legislature for the last two years as chairman of the Baltimore City delegations. And I've been in that. I've had the responsibility of steering the city's legislation through. I've been able to bring home the bacon to Baltimore City for the last two years, better than $150 million back to the city for different programs in the city impacting upon the lives of all of us, especially upon the lives of those who have the least.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=435.04,536.86"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I ask you to consider sending me and coming with me to Washington. Last but not least, is Democrat. Sandra Stewart. Good morning. I'm Sandy Stewart. I am the next congresswoman from baltimore. I will share. I will lead. I will empower our educate. I will bring the congressional seat back to the district. I will touch you personally. I will provide the managerial, analytical, technical skills that one needs in Washington to maneuver the system. So I'm 19 and a half years as a federal employee, 25 years as a unionist. Nearly 15 years in the various PTA has given me very specific skills to identify problems to solve them, but not just wring my hands and talk about them. People who know me say I'm a doer. I will take those skills, that energy and a very different vision to Washington, where I am very, very familiar with the turf. I will serve your needs. I ask for your support. I ask for your prayers and I ask for your votes. Thank you very much. Thank you. Candidates, we have met the candidates now. We're going to take a break, but when we come back, we'll find out a little bit more about them and start our people's for. Please stay with us. In the opening segment, we heard we had an opportunity to meet the candidates briefly. We will be asking another question and some of which the answer to, I'm sure that we've heard a little bit today already. But we want to open up by asking each person again, what in your background specifically qualifies you to hold the office of Congressman from the seventh Congressional District? And we will start again with Professor Augustus idea. Well, you've already suggested that I have uniquely qualified to serve the United States Congress from the seventh District in Maryland, because I am the only candidate in the race who has had firsthand experience working in the Congress as executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus for three years and as the congressional fellow representing the American Political Science Association as an administrative and as a legislative assistant in the House of Representatives.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=537.76,770.27"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But in addition, I am uniquely qualified for the seat because for the last 23 years, I have been teaching American government and politics with a special emphasis in the legislative process. So I have been working, teaching, researching, analyzing and counseling in the legislative process. Next up, I would not be so pompous or arrogant as to say that I'm the only one qualified because I believe that each of the persons who sits here today is well-qualified. I think the difference is that the lives that we will communicate to the community, the people who will be voting, we will be community came them vibes. How sincere are the people who are talking about what they will do realistically? There is only so much one can do as a legislator, as a freshman legislator, because first of all, there are 435 people who sit in the chamber. And so therefore it's a matter of winning friends and influencing people in order to accomplish your ends. I believe that my experiences having worked in the community and again, I want to stress I have been concerned with analyzing problems and bringing about solutions. For example, one of the things years ago when I found out that there was a school dropout program, I decided one of the reasons for that was an economic one. I started the Youth Employment Center. Also, we started carrying youngsters to various schools to show them a different side of life synagogue, for example. And that was the Countrywide experiences. Next up, Hazel Judd. I'm going to be sort of like Mr. Fletcher. I'm not going to be pompous and say that I am qualified, but I do think I will be. Anyway, I have been a nurse for 18 going on 19 years, and that was the head nurse.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=771.47,883.8"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I've been around people all my life. I've lived among people that are poor, hungry. I've worked with them, I understand them. I've been in the community working with people in my community, with different organizations, understand their problems, understand young people's problems. I'm an adviser to young people, and I really think that I'm qualified to help out to do the best I can. But first, before I can do anything by myself, I would have to have the constituents to work with me. I cannot promise that I can do this alone. Next is Councilman Kweisi Mfume. Thank you very much. I have served in the city's legislature since 1979, overseeing with the mayor and other members of the council and its president an annual budget of $1.3 billion a year, as well as all sorts of legislation affecting people's lives in the city of Baltimore. It's been a difficult process, but it has been an intriguing one because it brings with it a great deal of experience that one accumulates over the years. Now, there's been a great deal of legislation passed through the council that has buried my name. Legislation affecting minority business, affecting health, affecting education, affecting housing. I've had a chance to learn how to put together coalitions in the city council, and I've learned as a result of that how to impact on a national level. Having been chosen by Senator Ted Kennedy in 1980 to co-chair his Baltimore for president campaign and then working very diligently in 1984 as a delegate to the Democratic convention for Jesse Jackson. That experience, ladies and gentlemen, I think means an awful lot as we seek to represent you in the Congress of the. Thank you, Mr. Fumi. In this second round of meeting the candidates, the question that we have posed is what specifically in your background qualifies you to hold the position? Mr.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=884.82,997.71"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dwight Pettit. Thank you, Jacki. I've had the unique opportunity to go to the White House with a man who started from the beginning and went to the White House through the campaign trail, being Jimmy Carter, State chairman for Maryland. During that opportunity, I had the occasion to work in the transition. I had the occasion to go to the Democratic convention. I had the occasion to sit on the National Democratic Complaints Commission, and that gave me the background in terms of the national or the national exposure. But more important, I'm a lawyer and I don't believe that you have to be a lawyer to go to Congress. But I would venture to say that 80 to 90% of the Congress are lawyers. And the reason for that is the interpretation of the laws of the Congress, the making of the laws. I have been involved in the fighting, in the courtrooms, in the national level, As I said earlier, in terms of the US court of claims, in terms of civil rights, in terms of housing legislation, in terms of equal opportunity, in terms of all types of legislation that has gone through the courts and all types of laws that I've been dealing with on a practical basis. So I feel that with that background, with that legal background and those skills and with the national experience that I have developed, that basis that you need to interact in the United States Congress. Thank you. Next. Wendell Phillips. I believe that my experience as the chair of the Baltimore City delegation for the last two years and eight years in the Maryland State General Assembly has been a big benefit to me in terms of helping me to see how legislation is effectively passed. As a chairman, I have carried the city's program for the last two years and been able to bring home the bacon some hundred and $50 million.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=998.22,1086.54"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I serve on the Constitution and Administrative Law Committee for the time that I've been down in Annapolis for eight years. So I'm well familiar with how laws are made and legislation. Passed in that committee. All minority business legislation came before me, was acted upon by our committee as that chairperson of that committee. And being in that legislature, I have also had to network with the delegates and the senators 188 of them to work on the 8.8. $2 billion budget of the state for this year. And also to find out where the pain, where the hurt is and how we can address it legislatively. That qualifies me, I believe. And next and finally, seventh candidate here today is Sondra Stewart. I would respond to that question by saying that as your congresswoman, I would bring into that arena some very specific kinds of skills I have carried out in the community empowerment projects. In 1983, we registered 23,400 voters and corrected their cards and turned them in in 58 days. That's empowerment. I have studied that law since 1978, been very, very instrumental in bringing about significant changes in the election law here in Baltimore so that our voters will not be turned away from the polls in it. In addition to that, I am the director for Project Alliance, Inc. It's a networking organization. We publish a directory of black organizations. Beyond that, I use my managerial skills to assist community based organizations, to design programs, to develop the program, to evaluate the program, and then monitor it. I intend to use the Congressional Office to bring those resources back to the community and Internet based organizations. Again, you have heard the candidates. We will take a break now and come back with the People's Forum and listen to the questions of the people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=1087.53,1204.61"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Welcome back to City Limits. The candidates. At this point, we are ready to bring our audience into the discussion and find out what's on their minds. And so there our candidates can respond to their constituents. Jackie, do you want to start off We have a question here. Yes, my question is directed to Mr. Phillips. I and my associates are concerned with having elected black officials in every level of office that is local, state and federal. And I'm wondering, since you held the office of chairman to the Baltimore City delegation, just why you vacated that position, since it was a very important and pivotal role to hold, I'm vacating or vacated that position because I think in that position for the last two years was give me some insights and some abilities that have enabled me to be even more effective as a congressman on that level. The ability to network amongst folks of different backgrounds, experiences and to build a coalition that's necessary to get a piece of legislation passed. There are others in the Baltimore City delegation who have been delegates long enough now to know how to do that same process. And I feel it's time for me to move on and to use these same qualities on the congressional level. Okay. We have another question here in our audience. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Hi. This is addressed to Mr. Dwight Pettit. You spoke of being in the civil rights struggle for years. Can you pinpoint some things you've done in the struggle for civil rights? Yes. I won the very first case, a case in the nation in terms of discrimination and job employment, so forth. In fact, it was the very first case that established backpay remedy in terms of discrimination.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=1355.95,1460.29"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went on for four further to win cases of Social Security, to win cases at ACW, to win cases not only just on race discrimination, but also in sex discrimination, also in age discrimination, national origin. And in fact, I established the cases that I handled established the burden of proof test the back four tests that went on to establish what basis would be the evidentiary basis for proving discrimination. And as I said before, the first awards in the nation where persons were actually awarded monetary damages for having been discriminated against. So that was back in the seventies, the early seventies, when I won these cases, which of national import, and in fact was cited by the U.S. Court of Claims, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States, which went on to set and formulate the civil rights era as we know it in terms of civil rights litigation. Yes. I'd like to ask Mr. Zuma, how do you stand on elected school board issue? As for Baltimore City, you're talking about. I have no preference whether the city school board is elected or whether it's an appointed. My concern as a member of the city's education committee and someone who has voted for every education budget over the last seven years is that we have proper funding for education and proper oversight. So I really don't have a preference as to whether the members are elected or appointed by this mayor or some other mayor. I'm concerned about the quality of education, and we can only do that by being vigilant in making sure that education is funded properly. Okay. Yes. I'd like to send this question now to all the candidates. I would just like have a brief view of what you think of the Grand Rudman Act and in effect, it has in our community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=1461.16,1558.06"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's begin with Mayor Stewart. The Graham Rudman bill is designed to address the deficit issue. The reality of the deficit is that no matter the name of the legislation, the deficit must be addressed. It must be reduced. And so, although we've had a great deal of attention focused on the Graham Rudman bill as by name, the real bottom line is that there are going to be some altered spending habits with regard to the federal government. They will have impact at the state level and at the city level because some piece of legislation had to occur to reduce the federal budget. And we are going to experience a great deal of discomfort if we continue to depend on the federal government income. What we must look at is where our other resources are and how can they be maximized and utilized to take up the slack that a Graham Rudman deal brings about in our communities? And that's my specialty. And as your congressperson, you would not have found out about it when it was ready to be signed. We should have known about that bill at least six months before it was signed. We never had an opportunity to exert any real influence to have our pressure felt. We won't have that problem any more one time in office. Mrs. Judd, your response to the same question? Well, my opinion of the Grand Rudman and I'll just put down the basic facts speak any. Wrap words. What have you. I'll just come right out. The Grand Werman Bill is really affecting all of us. It's it's affecting our jobs. It's affecting the elderly. It's affect the defense, the military defense. And it's just a big mess. That's the plain words. And it will get worse unless something is done about it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=1559.35,1680.63"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And if we don't do something about it, then that's it. So that's all I have to say about the. Okay, Doctor, there new facts that August is a dare. And let me say very quickly that the Graham Rudman budget amendment, which is what it really is, is the wrong approach for balancing the federal budget. What we really need is a reordering of the federal spending priorities, not cutting programs that are needed for the most in our communities. Mr. Isaiah Fletcher The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, I think, will hurt a great deal. The interesting thing about it is there's some question now in the courts as to whether or not it would be constitutional. And as we will realize that, first of all, the Gramm-Rudman does not go into place unless the Congress is unable to act. And I think that we, the people, must use our influence to say to Congress, get off the pot or do something. The important point is that we must have a balanced budget. And in bringing about a balanced budget, it will hurt and the Gramm-Rudman will hurt. But at the same time, we must insist that Congress fulfill its responsibilities. Okay. We're going to allow the other candidates an opportunity to respond to that same question when we come back. But we must first take this break. Please stay with us. Up with the People's Forum here on City Line. And we have questions from members of the audience. My question is directed to Mr. Mfume. We are aware of your record in the city council and your stature in city government. Once elected, what do you plan? What legislation would you like to see pass? What programs would you like to implement to bring back to the seventh District to help out the black community? That's a very good question and I thank you for it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=1681.47,1893.99"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When elected to Congress, in fact, on the very first day I am going to pre-draft and pre file and have introduced a National Entrepreneurship Act. This is an act based pretty much along the lines of legislation introduced by Senator Gary Hart on the Senate side. It's a bill that would make risk and long term capital available to new and to small businesses in the community. And it calls for matching grants to the states. That money can be leveraged by women, by blacks, and by others who have small businesses or who are seeking to expand businesses to provide jobs through the creation of jobs and to secure a firm economic base so that, in fact, much of the unemployment that plagues the district can be addressed directly without having to look for government handout programs through a process that is very unique to this nation. It's a process that so many other ethnic groups have used and process by which we empower ourselves economically. I want to do that. I want to push for protection for Medicaid and Medicare and Social Security. I think we need to declare war on teenage pregnancy. We need to declare war on drugs and the entry of drugs into our nation by taking away most favored nation status of those countries in Northeast and Southeast Asia and Southwest Asia of Bolivia and Lima, Peru and others. And in doing that, reducing to a large extent the amount of drugs that find themselves and find their way, I should say, into this nation, along with, if I might add briefly, some sort of National Housing Act patterned on the Housing Act of 1968 to put people back to work by putting our construction and building trades people back to work, and by providing housing for low and middle income individuals who need it so desperately in this nation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=1895.43,1998.99"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All right, Thank you. Another question. This is to Ms.. For me, Ms.. Stewart and Mr. Fletcher. The issues of unemployment, education and crime, what order of importance would you put them in? And what if I might? I would put them one, one and one. I think they're that important because they threat in a cumulative fashion and individually all that we've tried to do in our communities, all of our parents and their parents have tried to do they work to undermine government. They work to undermine our communities. And so I think the approach ought to be three prong, that we have to go at them at the same time and with the same sort of public commitment through funds and through a through a public commitment of willpower in this nation. The same sort of commitment we made to put a man on the moon. We need that commitment to turn around crime, to better education and to increase health care and a number of other things that ought to be done. Thank you. Mr.. And for me, let's give the others an opportunity to respond. Mr. FLETCHER. I agree with Mr. Improve in saying that it is a three pronged approach because there's an interrelationship between these three aspects of social life. Not only would I be concerned with the government involvement, but I think there's a great deal of community involvement. I don't believe that the community has come together enough to say, let us help government to solve our problems, because they are in fact, first of all, our problems and to look at one as being greater than or less than the other. It is impossible. It has to be a united and a unified approach from all areas. Stewart. Yes, I'm prepared to argue, to give forth a very different kind of argument.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=2000.02,2099.94"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"First of all, I would identify education as number one. Education is number one. Now, what do I mean by education? I define education as cultivation of the mind. Meaning that I displaced homework, homework or looking for a job, looking for a laid off worker who is changing industries, looking at the illiterate adult, looking at the children at all age levels through post-secondary school. That is education. As far as crimes and drugs are concerned, the interrelationship as it touches on education speaks to some things that perhaps have not happened at the city council level and at the state level. Baltimore City school budget is 23% as compared to 50% 50% of most of the surrounding counties. Very clearly, you cannot provide quality education, even cultivation of the mind for the entire society when you are spending almost one half less. So I think that we want to look very carefully at what we mean by education. We want to bring the real sources to bear, resources to. Bear on the problem. And I do think we will see the need for drugs reduced and I think we will see a reduction in crime. Can I just jump in on that? Just as to certain people? But I think we have to back up and talk about Gramm-Rudman and all of this ties in. First of all, it's nice to say I'm going to go into Congress and introduce this legislation. I'm going to do this in housing. I'm gonna do this and and health and what have you. But first of all, let's understand that Gramm-Rudman threatens all of the federal aid that we've been receiving here thus far. And first of all, I argued before anybody argue before the suit was challenged on challenge was brought that the bill itself is unconstitutional.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=2100.9,2204.11"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean, the act itself. And I think first we have to stay on course that, number one, we have to fight. But number one is hoping the hope any hope. I'm hoping it's unconstitutional. But if it's not, we're going to have to go to the United States Congress, understanding that we're going to have to fight for these federal funds to continue to flow. Now, what we have happening right now in the United States Congress today, for example, is a consideration on the new tax legislation. Well, that tax legislation that is before the Congress threatens to cut off all tax incentives in terms of the construction of low income housing. It threatens in terms of bond grants in the state of Maryland, which has historically been the foundation of building middle income and affordable housing throughout the state. And these type of things have to be understood. We have to very much understand that there will be no money for the state if we don't go into the United States Congress fighting to reverse this Reagan administration and reverse the evils of Gramm-Rudman, which have allowed people to introduce legislation to cut domestic programs and at the same time not take the political wrath, because on Gramm-Rudman, it would be done automatically. And I think you have to back up and deal with the real problems. Thank you. You have another question. There are, at this particular moment, eight declared candidates for the seventh Congressional District. There are some in the community who feel that the scramble for power and J. Mitchell's seat is going to be a rather divisive, divisive candidacy leading towards the primary. Your responses to that and how much damage do you think will be done to the black community in terms of parceling up the votes that do that are existing in the community? Well, let me let me say, Jackie, that in all political races that we know anything about, there is competition.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=2204.95,2308.96"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Some competition is silent competition. Some is overt. We have a situation where eight persons have already announced or filed or announced and filed, and that's a great deal of discussion in the community that that number of persons will certainly divide the vote. Well, of course, everybody running brings to this campaign brings to this effort some support, some votes. I think the people in Maryland's seventh District will vote intelligently. I think they are responsible electorate and I think they will choose the right person. I don't get hung up on divisiveness. I think the divisiveness will not come from us. It will come from forces outside of us. And I think we will not worry about it. I think the best person will be selected and I think the people know that difference. This is just how much damage do you think will be done by this much activity in the district for one seat? Well, I don't think there would be any damage. I think the black people are sort of proud that they know that this many people are running for the district that we are all living in. And I really don't think there will be any at all. I think it will be an even battle with everybody. But no, no damage. Reverend Phillip, some alliances were in former campaigns. Now they're having to be split because of the numbers of candidates running. What do you think will be the long term effect in the seventh Congressional District? I think the long the long term effect is that relationship stay intact and that the people of the seventh congressional District are smart enough when given the right information to make the right decision. I don't think it's a campaign based on friendships and love.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=2310.73,2415.16"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think it's a campaign that needs to transcend. All of that is much more at stake than that. And I think the knowledgeable enough to know and to have been involved in the struggle throughout those since time, those when there's too much at stake. So I think that the relationships will still still be intact after the election. Okay. We're going to come back for some more discussion with the candidates. But first, a message. Please stay with us. Now, here's this week's community calendar. 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 BURNETT. 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 or 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 moments to get a look at exactly what that means here and take a look at the makeup of the seventh Congressional District.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=2415.49,2671.78"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"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. This gentleman right here. Yes. I'd like to put all the candidates on the spot on drugs. The there are right now $400 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. Not one banker is put in jail. I like to know if the gentleman and 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 with 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.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=2673.04,2794.54"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"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. 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. Anyone else would like to respond to that, if I may? When I was running for state 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 asked, 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 a 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, said 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 this also has to be something else, and that is do 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.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=2795.59,2878.96"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"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. Whenever you have the kind of dollars involved that we have involved in the drug traffic. 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.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=2879.8,2980.86"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Everybody seems to be silent about where the problem is. That's what you need to start doing, announce it, articulate it, say where it is identified as judged. I want to stress that we had a policy on drugs and we took it to Annapolis. Clarence Mitchell presented it to the House Judiciary Committee. This bill's 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 grants. Mitchell presented this bill. He even brought down a busload of young people to the Committee on Dope. I testified on 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 a 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 quit the drug trade in this country? We'll take a break and come back. Welcome back again to City Lines. Meet the candidate, a forum for both our viewers at home, as well as our studio audience. To meet the candidates vying for the seventh Congressional District. When we left, Ms.. Hazel Judd was discussing the drug trafficking. I'd like to allow you to continue. Ms.. 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.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=2981.37,3252.37"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, as I said before, we had presented this bill in Annapolis, and it didn't go through. We had only four people that were for the bill. Now, if I was in Congress, what I would do would try to see that all the both the ships that do come over here, that get through, I should say, with this dope now in Peru, cause there did have a rule in the 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. Fleming? 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 in 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.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=3254.95,3368.98"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"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. 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 won't 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 the idea. 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 for 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.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=3369.91,3461.11"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"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. 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 we'd like to give you a couple moments to take issue. If there have been things said so far this evening by other candidates. Questions raised from the audience that you've not had a chance to address to your satisfaction. We're going to give you a few moments again each and 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 exists. 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.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=3461.71,3552.82"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And until the day I die, I'm going to hold on to that belief, because that's what has made change as possible in this world since the beginning of time. Let me just that I think the question was asked in terms of number one, two or three at some time ago in terms of what is the importance, what would be our number 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 redirection by this whole notion which Maryland and the city of Baltimore has followed, we find that Maryland is one of the most more prosperous states yet has less in the spending of education. We find 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 a harbor and hotels are fine, but we cannot let that neglect our 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 them you've got to close down the high schools like you're closing Easton High School with no formulation, no basis whatsoever. And then tell me it's because the kids are not performing or tell me it's because the school is unpopulated. Or tell me there's 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 have to be attacked. As a congressman, I want to be more than just in Washington, D.C.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=3553.51,3632.44"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I want to be here in Baltimore City. I want to be here in Maryland. I want to be the gadfly. This is whoever the mayor is, whoever the governor is. 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 by the seventh Coast, 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 as governor, it's changed the whole political structure of the state. That shows the importance of the seventh is that J. Mitchell is at the seventh. Mr. Gonzales Is that person Jay Mitchell or is that the seventh Congressional District? And 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. They don't put you on a ticket for any place unless they figure you bring something with you. Mr.. Let's discuss. Your response to anything that you've heard thus far that you want to take issue with from the other candidates? 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.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=3633.01,3734.63"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let me say to everybody.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=3735.95,3736.79"}]},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["English [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/transcript/48915/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"subtitling","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/048/915/original/open-uri20230817-361026-ytliqf?1692236130","format":"text/vtt","language":"en"},"target":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/048/915/original/open-uri20230817-361026-ytliqf?1692236130"}]},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/index/82408","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Meet the Candidates I, 1986-06-15 02-14-2024 18:29 [Index]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/index/82408/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"People's Forum for 7th Congressional District","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=47.0,218.0"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/index/82408/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Meet the candidates","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264#t=218.0,723.0"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105503/file/206264/index/82408/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Augustus Adair; Isaiah Fletcher, Sr.; Hazel Judd; Kweisi Mfume; A. 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