Word: fauntroy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...calls Ron Brown, the African American who is chairman of the Democratic Party, "Ron Beige" because he is not militant enough to suit Savage. When a reporter tried to question him about charges that one of his sons was a no-show employee on the payroll of Walter Fauntroy, Representative from Washington, D.C., he snapped, "Are you still wearing your wife's underwear...
Like Revolutionary patriot James Otis, Walter Fauntroy, the District of Columbia's non-voting congressional delegate, insists, "Taxation without representation is tyranny!" He is urging District residents to withhold their federal taxes until the city, whose population of 617,000 is greater than that of three states, is granted statehood and full-fledged representation in the House and Senate. Fauntroy's call has triggered no rallying of the masses. Perhaps that is because the Internal Revenue Service has the same opinion of Fauntroy's idea that King George III had of Otis': with or without representation, nonpayment of taxes...
...Barry had retained the loyalty of many citizens. The lodging last week of an indictment charging him with three counts of perjury and five counts of possessing cocaine dealt a severe blow to his support. Already a committee has been formed to draft the city's congressional delegate, Walter Fauntroy, as a candidate for mayor. Barry, who is undergoing treatment for alcoholism in Florida, blasted the indictment as a "political lynching." Some of his advisers suggest that his motive for staying in office is to offer to resign as a bargaining chip in negotiations for a lighter sentence. If convicted...