Posted on 06/27/2002 2:37:14 PM PDT by mhking
WASHINGTON (AP) - Black Entertainment Television founder Robert L. Johnson is donating $1 million to the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute. Johnson's $1 million contribution, one of several seven-figure contributions the DNC has received for the 2002 election, will help finance voter education and get-out-the vote efforts, said Donna Brazile, who heads the institute. DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe established the institute last year in response to Democrat Al Gore's loss to Republican George W. Bush in Florida's 2000 presidential election recount. Johnson has been a prolific Democratic donor in the past few years. He contributed at least $130,250 to Democrats for the 2000 and 2002 elections, while his company gave at least $25,000. Johnson's donation to the institute is not the biggest Democrats have received so far this election cycle. Billionaire media mogul and "Power Rangers" creator Haim Saban donated a record $7 million to the DNC earlier this year, and Hollywood producer Steve Bing gave $5 million. The DNC received $1 million checks last year from the plumbers' union, a government workers' union and Chicago businessman Fred Eychaner. If the nation's new campaign finance law survives court challenges, this fall's election would be the last in which the national parties could accept such big checks. The new law limits an individual's donations to a national party committee to $25,000 per year, and prohibits corporations and labor unions from giving to the national parties.
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The following exerpts are from Vernon Wharton, The Negro in Mississippi(1865-1890). They describe the end of Reconstruction in Mississippi:
"Once the general policy had been adopted [by self styled Redeemers] that Negro and Republican control of state government was to be broken at tany cost, a number of methods were followed for its accomplishment. One of these involved the intimidation of those whites who still worked with the Republican party . . . As early as December 1874 the Hinds County Gazette declared that death should be meted out to those who continued their opposition. 'All other means having been exhausted to abate the horrible condition of things [Republican rule effected by a white Republican coalition with newly freed African Americans] the thieves and robbers and scoundrels, white and black, deserve death and ought to be killed . . . The thieves kept in office by [Republican] Governor Ames . . . ought to be compelled to leave the State or abide the consequences.' p. 185
This is consistent with the usual fare on his station- both dumb people down!
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