Word: fauntroy
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...some District leaders don't fully agree. "There is no evidence that Congress will grant D.C. statehood," Eldridge Spearman, press aide to Rep. William E. Fauntroy (D-D.C.), a nonvoting delegate who helped author the Voting Rights Amendment, contends. "In fact, all indications are that Congress would reject it. Congress would not relinquish the authority it has had over D.C.," he adds...
...Fauntroy believes that the best way to obtain congressional representation is through the Amendment, approved by Congress is 1978. The Amendment would give the District two senators and its share of representatives without making D.C. a state. Thus far, nine states, including Massachusetts, have ratified the Amendment; 38 are needed...
Proponents also argue that if Congress was sincere when it approved the Voting Rights Amendment two years ago, it will support statehood. Yet opponents of the initiative such as Fauntroy and the District chapter of the League of Women Voters, point out that it took Alaska and Hawaii 50 years to obtain statehood. They note that those two states, one Democratic and one Republican, balanced each other politically; the heavily Black District, on the other hand, would be an overwhelmingly Democratic state. For that reason alone, Congressional conservatives might oppose the measure...
From the day the campaign began, Kennedy speeches featured miscues and bumbled phrases. To a Black audience he once decided to mimic Rep. Walter Fauntroy (D-D.C.) and came off sounding like Steppin' Fetchit. At a girls' school in New Hampshire he led a confused audience in singing an off-key "Happy Birthday" to himself. Wherever he went, the answers to questions were filled with umms, ahs, and the sentences strung themselves out in endless, knotted ropes of words. But Tuesday night, once he had lost, once he had fumbled a lead that once seemed as solid...