Word: rowland
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...officials like Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. "There will be many who are disappointed by this decision, as am I," he proclaimed. "We disagree [with it] and fear the consequences." Even before many people had a chance to read the decision, Blumenthal, a Democrat, had joined Republican Governor John G. Rowland in drawing lines in the sand. No "involuntary busing" to diversify student populations, they vowed. No redrawing of local school districts...
With Wilson no longer a factor, observers say the new format should benefit Sen. Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.), who has received the backing of most of the region's Republican leadership, including Weld, Connecticut Gov. John Rowland and Sens. William Cohen (R-Maine) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine...
Even moderate white Democrats have become increasingly conservative because of the removal of Black constituents from their districts. J. Roy Rowland, a moderate white Democrat, represented the Eighth District in Georgia from 1982 to 1994. During the 1992 redistricting, the number of Blacks in his district dropped from 36 to 21 percent, which he said had influenced his voting record...
...became more oriented toward a district that had changed," Rowland said in newspaper reports following his retirement last year. "I didn't vote for the Clinton budget, and I might have been inclined to do so in the past." Rowland retired last year, and he said the whole process of redistricting disgusted him. "Am I not capable of representing Black people?," he asked "I find personally offensive that this took place...
Donald Zerendow, Rowland's attorney, could notbe reached for comment