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Local politician who spoke up on inner city moral decay - coming up live on Hannity and Colmes ------ Racist or Realist - Rhino Times, M E Pellin Jan 6, 2005 Bill James has been a county commissioner for the last decade, and for the last decade he has been sending out e-mails laced with politically incorrect, incendiary, and often divisive commentary on what he considers the contributing causes to society’s moral decay. Chief culprits have included a lengthy list of –alities: homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, and infidelity, to name a few. For years the media and elected officials from both...

James to appear on Fox's 'Hannity & Colmes' Mecklenburg County commissioner Bill James, a Republican, said he has been invited to appear on a live Fox News Channel show to discuss the structure of African American families. James said he will appear at 9 p.m. Tuesday on "Hannity & Colmes." A Republican representing southeastern Mecklenburg, James sparked a furor last month when he said in an e-mail that urban blacks "live in a moral sewer." James later said he could have chosen his words more carefully, and released a 14-point plan he said he hoped could reduce crime, dropout rates...

Blacks offer mixed reaction to James' assertions Not all would disagree, but commissioner is no Bill Cosby, says pastor CRISTINA BOLLING AND KEN GARFIELD Staff Writers Karen Giles is a 35-year-old black single mother from Bill James' district. Was the Mecklenburg County commissioner talking about her when he called the city's urban core "a moral sewer full of promiscuity that leads to illegitimate kids ..."? Giles thinks so. And she's mad. "Tell him to trade places with me for a week, and play catch-up on my bills. See how he likes that," she said. "And show me how he can...

Former school board chair Wilhelmenia Rembert will run for Mecklenburg County commissioner this year, she told the Observer Thursday night. Rembert's entry into the 2004 at-large race comes less than three months after her school board re-election bid fell 402 votes short. If she wins in November, the county's balance of power could shift. Republicans now have a 5-4 advantage. With the six districts split evenly between the parties, Democrats will likely need to win two of the three at-large seats to regain control. Rembert, a registered Democrat, said the county's issues fit her interests. "It really would offer me...