With only a couple days left, it’s amazing how many city council candidates have not reported their totals for the 8 Day before election reporting period. Some candidates also failed to file their 30 day before election reports. This certainly isn’t acceptable when people demand transparency in government. Is reporting optional these days?
The Georgia Supreme Court finally overturned the 2 year ruling of Genarlow Wilson. It’s about time Justice happened after over 2 years of injustice.
Mikal Watts has dropped out of the race for the Democratic Nomination for the Junior US Senate Seat from Texas. This makes things look real good for his challenger State Rep. Rick Noriega to take on Cornyn in November of 08! There is buzz about John Sharp jumping into the race, but we’re hoping this is not the case. GIVE EM HELL RICK!!!
The NAACP has declared a State of Emergency in response to the recent surge in assaults against young African Americans as demonstrated by boot camp beating death of Martin Lee Anderson, noose hangings in Jena, Louisiana and other communities, and the assault by police on Shelwanda Riley. The rising level of violence against African Americans symbolized by these cases, as well as countless other dehumanizing attacks, requires immediate action by local and state authorities as well as the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Congress.
Source: www.naacp.org
“The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said that the cost of less than 40 days in Iraq would pay for health-care coverage for 10 million children for a year.”
The New York Times ran an interesting article this morning about President Bush’s request for more funding for the war in Iraq. What’s interesting to The Minority Report is how Mr. Bush can veto a bill that would restore cuts to health care for millions of our nation’s children and replace that spending on Armored Vehicles and operational costs for a troop surge that no one wanted. I don’t understand how these compassionate conservatives can spend more on killing people than they can on caring for them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/washington/23prexy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Don’t forget that early voting started yesterday people. I already cast my ballot…have you?
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D), the only Black Governor in the country, will endorse Senator Barack Obama for President over Hilary Clinton. Deval is a former aide under the Bill Clinton administration. I applaud Gov. Patrick for being a man of conviction about what he believes in versus what is the best politics. The only Black Governor supporting the only Black Senator. And who says there is no Black Love!? Now if we could only get the Congressional Black Caucus on Board…..
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/headlines/patrick1018
The House of Representatives failed to override President Bush’s Veto of the SCHIP Bill. The measure failed by 13 votes, which means there are 13 people somewhere in DC who screwed children around the country out of health insurance. I hope you guys sleep well tonight…..actually I don’t!
My man, hip hop artist Pinc Gator is talking down on President Bush. Check it out!
Editorial:
Today I read an article that stated two more community groups were split on the HISD Bond referendum that is to come before voters in November. The community has been split over this issue in the last couple of months, much to the pleasure of those that are leading the opposition against the bond. The criticisms are constant. “Saavedra will not walk all over our community”, “They didn’t go about it the right way”, and even “We’re going to show them so that they do it right the next time.” The Minority Report is compelled to ask the question in the midst of all this banter…What about the children? The reality of this bond proposal is that no matter which way you slice 805 million dollars it all leads to black and brown children benefitting. Since it was first introduced the Bond Proposal has been altered, including the removal of school consolidations and some of the campuses that were scheduled to close will remain open. This came as a result of community concerns being expressed. I believe it’s time that our community start holding on to what’s important and stop making noise about things that are not going to bring about progress. I know our community history and schools are important. But so are our children, and if they can’t compete in a world that is constantly changing then they will compete in a world that remains constant such as our prison system.
I don’t have children. I hope to one day. I hope they can get a quality education in the schools that my tax dollars pay for. Our children’s future ought not be something that we use as a political issue that wedges us against each other. We have to begin to educate ourselves on what the real issues are with this bond issue. HISD is over 50 percent Hispanic and almost 40 percent African American, therefore no matter what way the money is going children of color will benefit. Everyday we are seeing an increase in the number of schools that need to be evacuated due to environmental issues. We see schools in communities of color that lack the technological infrastructure of those in richer and more suburban school districts. We talk about equity in education and adversely attempt to deny our children the resources it will take to compete. I hope those that oppose this bond are prepared to deal with the consequences our children will endure. Be clear that denying the children of HISD this bond may result in parents later giving them money for a different type of bond, the kind that are issued by a judge instead of a voter.