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Perhaps so. Certainly, without ceding to it the banner of Defender of the Faith, some close observers of the Seminar claim that its members have moderated somewhat their tone of radical skepticism. The Rev. Bruce Chilton, a religion professor at Bard College in upstate New York and one of the group's more conservative members, says the Seminar has become progressively less "programmatic." Ten years ago, Chilton testifies, "for many members, there appeared to be an assumption that we needed to read the Gospels as if they were popular novels produced in the 2nd century." After a decade of work...
Paradise. 967 Comm Ave., Boston. 254-2052. Alex Chilton Hank on Saturday, April...
Commissioner Julius Kelley would disagree. "We needed a black on the commission, and we got a good one," he says. Kelley can afford to be generous. He is living proof that cumulative voting's leg up to minorities is color blind. Like blacks, Chilton's white Republicans were hungry political underdogs. They too "plumped" -- and reaped three commissioners' seats...
...early in Chilton County's career as a cumulative testing ground for all of the system's permutations to have expressed themselves. Its critics suggest that it will empower not only "legitimate" minorities, but (in a seven-seat election) any fringe dweller who can enthrall 12% of the voters -- the David Dukes as well as the Bobby Agees. Even without kooks, they fear it will create mosaic governments paralyzed by factionalism. Others predict that once minority members realize cumulative systems provide an automatic "safe seat," numerous candidates will split the vote, and the seat will disappear. Exactly that happened last...
...Chilton County had another election in 1992. Researchers from the University of New Orleans who conducted exit polls report that relations between races at the polling places were cordial but tense. Of the white voters polled, 48% said they found the election experience "poor," but 88% understood it well enough to know you could cast all seven votes for the same candidate. As for blacks, the overwhelming majority approved of cumulative voting; 87% clumped all their votes on one candidate, and Bobby Agee was re-elected...