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It’s Obama, again

HISTORY IN THE MAKING

Roundtree becomes first black sheriff in Augusta

POWER SHIFT IN 1ST DISTRICT RACE?

Bill Fennoy, Matt Aitken to face off in runoff election

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Obama’s win was at least the equal of John Kennedy’s in 1960 (303 electoral votes), bigger than Richard Nixon’s in 1968 (303 electoral votes), bigger than Jimmy Carter’s in 1976 (297 electoral votes), bigger than George W. Bush’s in 2000 (271 electoral votes and a popular vote loss).

It’s Obama!

By John Nichols The NATION

It wasn’t even close. That’s the unexpected result of the November 6 election. And President Obama and his supporters must wrap their heads around this new reality — just as their Republican rivals are going to have to adjust to it.

After a very long, very hard campaign that began the night of the 2010 “Republican wave” election, a campaign defined by unprecedented spending and take-no-prisoners debate strategies, Barack Obama was reelected president. And he did so with an ease that allowed him to claim what even his supporters dared not imagine until a little after 11 p.m. on the night of his last election: a credible, national win.

“We’re not as divided as our politics suggest,” Obama told the crowd at his victory party in Chicago.

And he was on to something.

Despite a brief delay by Republican challenger Mitt Romney, and the commentators on Fox News, Obama claimed his victory on election night not the next day, as Richard Nixon did in 1960, or even later, as George Bush in 2000.

And it was a real victory.

Obama did not have to deal with the challenge of an Electoral College win combined with a popular-vote loss ­ — as even some of his most ardent supporters feared might be the case..

By the time Romney conceded at 1 a.m., Obama had a 250,000 popularvote lead, and it grew to roughly two million by dawn.

He was on track to win a majority of states and more than 300 Electoral Votes – at least 303 and, with the right result in Florida, 332.

Obama’s win was at least the equal of John Kennedy’s in 1960 (303 electoral votes), bigger than Richard Nixon’s in 1968 (303 electoral votes), bigger than Jimmy Carter’s in 1976 (297 electoral votes), bigger than George W. Bush’s in 2000 (271 electoral votes and a popular vote loss).

And, significantly, bigger than George W. Bush in 2004, when

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U.S. President Barack Obama walks on stage with first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia to deliver his victory speech on election night at McCormick Place November 6, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama won reelection against Republican candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Win McNamee/Getty Images Obama’s predecessor won just 286 electoral votes, and faced serious challenges to the result in the state that put him across the 270 line: Ohio.

Never mind, Bush claimed a broad mandate.

“When you win, there is… a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view,” Bush said. “And that’s what I intend to tell Congress, that I made it clear what I intend to do as the president; now let’s work.”

Bush told reporters: “I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style.”

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When Bush tried to spend his capital “reforming” Social Security, he failed. Obama would be wise to avoid making the same mistake.

Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid do not need to be “reformed.”

They need to be strengthened and expanded.

The president could spend some of his capital on that project.

But he ought not stop there.

As he embarks upon the second term that not all presidents are given, Obama would do well to take the counsel of National Nurses United executive direector Rose Ann DeMoro, who said after the election,

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”The President and Congress should stand with the people who elected them and reject any cuts in Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, strengthen Medicare by expanding it to cover everyone, and insist that Wall Street begin to repay our nation for the damage it caused our economy with a small tax on Wall Street speculation, the Robin Hood tax.”

That reference to the Robin Hood tax is worthy of note.

President Obama ought to get serious, in his second term, about finding the revenues to pay for the strengthening and expanding of necContinued on page 10

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Freddie Sanders (L) congratulates Sheriff-elect Richard Roundtree (R) after conceding the Sheriff’s race earlier in the evening. Photo by Vincent Hobbsou

Roundtree will become county’s first black sheriff AUGUSTA Augustans made it official on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. They elected the county’s first black sheriff in history. Former Richmond County Sheriff’s deputy Richard Roundtree successfully countered the heavily financed candidacies of Democrat Scott Peebles and Republican Freddie Sanders to win the powerful sheriff’s post. Despite the opposition from the established business community, the Augusta Chronicle editorial pages and former sheriff Ronnie

Strength, Roundtree won by a landslide with 63 percent of the ballots cast (49,389 to 28,395).

Supported by a record turnout of African American voters who were eager to re-elect President Barack Obama and boosted by a large field of successful African-American office seekers, Roundtree’s victory returned the sheriff’s office to real Democrats.

The Roundtree campaign effort was characterized by a strong get-out-the-vote effort and a promise to make the police department more diverse and

responsive to the needs of the community. He promised to enact a community policing agenda and to modernize the police department.

The Roundtree victory served to energize those in the community who realized that the status quo was not good enough. It also brought to the fore the duplicity of some local politicians to were Democrats in name only. The Roundtree campaign turned back a well organized Republican “raid” of the Democrat primary designed elect Scott Peebles.

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SOLICITOR GENERAL

Kellie Kenner McIntyre

Kellie McIntyre (D) 47,889 64% Chuck Evans (R) 26,419 36%

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Ashley Wright

Ashley Wright (R) 77,491 55% Evita A. Paschall (D) 63,623 45%

SCHOOL BOARD DIST. 8

Marion Barnes

Marion Barnes 6,195 76% Lucien Williams 2,000 24%

PROBATE JUDGE

Harry James

Harry James (D) 48,307 65% Carleton Vaughn (R) 25,712 35%

STATE HOUSE DIST. 125

Ernest Smith

Earnest Smith (D) 12,161 66% David Hopper (R) 6,404 34%

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Election 2012 . . .

SIGNS O’ THE TIME: A campaign worker holds a sign on Druid Park Avenue near Paine College.

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Charter School Amendment

YES - 42,089 NO - 33,532

Georgians vote Yes on charter school measure that bypasses local control On Tuesday, the state’s voters said yes to Amendment One — which will change the Georgia constitution to make sure the state can approve charter schools and establish a commission to consider applications for them.

Passage of the amendment is a huge boost to charter school proponents, who hail the schools as an alternative for parents whose children attend traditional public schools that are struggling.

The campaign drew millions in out-ofstate money from big-money donors who saw the ballot question as a proxy for the broader question of whether parents should

have more choice.

Opponents of the amendment had argued that changing the state’s constitution was a drastic and unnecessary move. They noted that local school boards can already approve charter school applications. And if those applications are rejected by local boards, applicants can turn to the state Board of Education.

Adding a commission to serve as a third authorizer of charter schools is a waste of taxpayer resources that dilutes the authority of local boards, the amendment opponents argued.

Commission District 1

Deja vu Aitken vs. Fennoy in Dec. 5 runoff Matt Aitken

Bill Fennoy

Matt Aitken Bill Fennoy Denice Traina Stanley Hawes

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Board of

Williams defeats Jones

Education

Marion Williams Harold Jones

18,662 55% 15,072 45%

District 8

Atkins defeats Cheek Harold Jones

Marion Williams

Jimmy Atkins 5,136 62% Robert Cheek 3,127 38%

40% 30% 16% 15%

Congressman Scott Barrow celebrates after his victory over opponent Lee Anderson during an election reception at the Partridge Inn. Photo by Catherine Balducci/ Special to UPW

U.S. House - District 12

Barrow defeats Anderson John Barrow (Dem / Inc.)

Lee Anderson (Rep)

138,195 54% 118,936 46%

Commission District 3

Davis beats Enoch Mary Davis Ed Enoch Cleveland O’Steen

6,530 66% 2,390 24% 981 10%

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Commission District 7

Smith defeats Echols Donnie Smith Kenneth Echols

5,361 55% 4,329 45%

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(Above) Sheriff-elect Richard Roundtree (R) is overcome with emotion as he greets a supporter after winning the Sheriff’s race. Photo by Vincent Hobbs

Nov. 6, 2012 The fall chill, the long lines, the agony & the ecstasy of voting day in Augusta.

Sheriff elect Richard Roundtree collected nearly 50,000 votes to defeat his Republican rival. Photo by Vincent Hobbs

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Residents say the Rockaways section of the Queens in New York City is a family friendly place. But Hurricane Sandy has brought looting and robberies, despite an increased police presence.

By Amy Lieberman

NEW YORK The last bus from Brooklyn rolled into the Belle Harbor neighborhood of the Rockaways, Queens, on Friday evening just before 6 p.m., as darkness slipped quickly over the beach-town streets, obscuring curbside piles of discarded furniture and electronics.

No lights powered on inside the modest one and two-story houses, as they haven’t for the past five nights, since Hurricane Sandy – a post-tropical cyclone with 80 mile-per-hour winds – struck this small peninsula and the greater New York City area and New Jersey on Monday, knocking out power for 3.5 million homes and businesses.

When the bus stopped, the 11 passengers scuttled out and set off for home, without lingering on the normally commercial street. Residents describe the Rockaways as a family friendly place, with certain pockets of rough neighborhoods.

But some people say Sandy’s aftereffect of darkness is making the area more dangerous, resulting in looting and at-home robberies, despite an increased police presence.

“I saw this guy stealing televisions from a nursing home right on the boardwalk on Tuesday, and the workers were chasing him up the street,” said Ben Cooper, who lives in Belle Harbor. “Every time I saw him he had a different TV.” Mr. Cooper and a few friends stood talking on his house’s porch. It was about 7:45 p.m. and they were the only people around. The ocean breeze was getting colder and stronger. He held his flashlight and looked out onto the street, which was still covered with sand.

“There’s no lights, there’s no cameras, there’s no alarms, there’s no nothing. It’s kind of scary, you know?” he said.

His neighbor, Talentin Gutierez showed a reporter a borrowed generator, worth about $2,000. His was robbed the other day. Tonight, he will sleep in his car – wrecked from water damage – to guard the generator.

An hour later, a New York City Police Department officer looked on as four National Guards unloaded cases of bottled water and ready-to-eat emergency food packs outside a recently launched community center half a block away.

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In Far Rockaway Peninsula, 15 people were charged with looting businesses on Wednesday. Reported arrests in Manhattan, Coney Island, Brooklyn, and Staten Island for looting at businesses like supermarkets and sneaker stores totaled 20 last week.

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Paine Professor selected as keynote speaker at International conference AUGUSTA Paine College Associate Professor of Chemistry, Dr. C.R. Nair, has been selected to serve as the opening conference keynote speaker at the International Global Biofuels & Bioproducts Summit 2012.

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Race baiting and the Party of Lincoln

By Charles J. Reid Jr. “Like a dog returning to its vomit, is a fool who repeats his folly.” (Proverbs 26: 11).

John Sununu reminded me of this Bible verse with his bloviations about Colin Powell’s endorsement of President Obama. Sununu imagined that the only possible reason General Powell had for endorsing the President was racial solidarity. Breezily, condescendingly, Sununu surmised: “Well, I think when you have somebody of your own race that you’re proud of being president of the United States, I applaud Colin for standing with him.” (See Jonathan Capehart, “John Sununu: Race-Baiting Buffoon,” the Washington Post, October 26, 2012).

At how many levels is this patronizing? Did Sununu, this former Bush aide who resigned from office for abuse of power (using a government limousine to travel from Washington, D.C. to New York City to attend a stamp collectors’ convention), have to address General Powell as “Colin?” Could not Sununu have thought there might be better reasons for a man of General Powell’s experience and background to endorse a president who successfully concluded the Iraq War and brought Osama bin Laden to richly-deserved justice?

The Republican Party was not always filled with race-baiting fools. Indeed, there was a time, a hundred years ago,

when it lived up to the title it has since lost all moral claim to use — “the Party of Lincoln.” For, truly, 1912 was the high point of race relations within the Grand Old Party. In that year, 6.5 percent of the delegates to the Republican Party Convention were African American. (David A. Bositis, Blacks and the 2012 Republican National Convention, p. 17). This was an astonishing number at a time when that hideous system of apartheid known as Jim Crow still locked the South in its foul embrace. In contrast, only 2.1 percent of delegates to the 2012 GOP Convention were African American.

From the 1910s to the 1950s, African Americans supported the Republican Party in significant numbers. In 1952 and 1956, Dwight Eisenhower received an estimated 35 percent of the AfricanAmerican vote. (Georgia Anne Parsons, Race and Democracy in the Americas (2003), p. 220). Even Richard Nixon, in 1960, attracted roughly 30 percent of the African American vote. (Theodore Rueter, The Politics of Race: AfricanAmericans and the Political System (1995), p. 17).

What happened? Why do African Americans now vote Democratic in numbers in excess of 90 percent?

There are many reasons, of course, but a central explanation is the climate of hostility towards African Americans that has been an unpleasant feature of contemporary conservative politics since 1964. For it was in that year that Barry Goldwater, one of the few non-

Southern senators to vote against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, made his infamous play for the support of segregationist whites.

The Goldwater campaign introduced something new and profoundly unsettling into Republican Party politics — ­ race-baiting. A perusal of back issues of the National Review — the unofficial voice of Goldwaterism — from the summer and fall of 1964 reveals just how ugly this race-baiting became. In the June 2nd issue, the National Review used the tenth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education to denounce that decision for ignoring established precedent (Plessy v. Ferguson) and for grounding its opinion “more on sociology than law.” (“The Brown Decade.”)

On August 25, it attacked “the anarchistic Dr. King.” (“The Week.”) Also on August 25, it warned that the civil-rights movement had been infiltrated by “Communists of both the Moscow and the Maoist ultra varieties.” (“Equality Is a Two-Way Street.”)

On June 30, the magazine celebrated Nelson Mandela’s life-sentence: “You would think the court had just finished barbecuing St. Joan to hear the howls from the Liberal Press,” the National Review mocked Mandela in an article entitled “Oh, Shut Up.” The culmination of this months-long campaign of race-incitement came on October 6, when the National Review welcomed Strom Thurmond’s move to the Republican Party. This, the editors

OBAMA WINS from page 2 essary programs: ideally by taxing the wealthy as they were in the days of America’s greatest economic expansion, and also by imposing that ”Robin Hood Tax” on financial transactions.

But Obama’s first task should be to fix the broken political system that imposes so many burdens on America democracy.

In his victory speech, Obama referenced the long lines in which Americans waited to vote for him and declared: ”By the way, we need to fix that.”

That’s good. The need of democratic renewal is great after an unnecessarily crude political campaign that was, as Obama acknowledged, frequently ”small… and silly.”

The place to begin is with a project he mentioned just before the Democratic National Convention: amending the constitution to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. ”Over the longer

term, I think we need to seriously consider mobilizing a constitutional amendment process to overturn Citizens United (assuming the Supreme Court doesn’t revisit it),” the president wrote, in response to a question about the court decision to allow corporations to spend as freely as they choose to influence elections. ”Even if the amendment process falls short, it can shine a spotlight of the super PAC phenomenon and help apply pressure for change.”

Seeking to amend the constitution to reform our election system is an ambitious endeavor, especially for a president who has just beaten the combined power of Karl Rove and his billionaire boys club.

But it is a necessary endeavor.

And a president who has been comfortably reelected ought not think small.

He should ”spend his capital” on projects worthy of the trust Americans have afforded him.

exalted, would lead to an exodus of whites from the Democratic Party and help move the South permanently into the GOP column.

If the National Review’s summer of hate mostly consisted of affluent kids dipping their toes into gutter politics, Richard Nixon knew how to play the game for keeps. In 1968, he implemented a deliberately-crafted politics of racial division known as the “Southern Strategy.” His great ambition was to unite white northern ethnics and white southerners in a single political movement based on perceived racial grievance.

From this dishonorable birth have sprung modern Republican campaigns of race incitement. Racism depends for its success on the use of stereotypes and archetypes. And Republicans have known how to use them all too well.O Consider the notorious Willie Hortonw commercial -- the mugshot, glower-u ing from the television screen, usedl to depict Michael Dukakis as soft onl crime. Or the Jesse Helms televisiont spot — the white hands, crumplinga the rejection letter, as the announceri intones how you needed that job, howm it should have been yours, had it notv been for affirmative action.

The Republican Party of 2012 continues to dive deep in the sewer of racial politics. The whole “birther” controversy, the manufactured campaign to delegitimize President

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Your support of my service is humbling and very much appreciated.

My terms as your State Representative have been a journey of legislative victories and some incomplete guests-but always a labor of love and respect for my constituency. As I begin my eleventh year in the Georgia House of Representatives, I look forward to your continued input for House District 127 and our never diminishing aspiration for our cities, counties and state.

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I appreciate your faith in my representation and with God’s help, look forward to the 2013 legislative session. We will continue to keep you informed and updated and look forward to receiving your input as we move Richmond and Jefferson Counties forward.

Thank you for your prayers and support.

Yours for a better Georgia,

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After more than a 50 year absence, Paine college officials recently announced that it will field a football team come 2014. Athletic director Tim Duncan said the football program will boost the economy and increase student enrollment. The Lions will compete in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (Division II). Le Moyne-Owen and Paine are the only SIAC schools without football programs. Despite Paine’s financial troubles, the news of reviving the football program,gives a shot of encouragement and promise to the Paine College community and the Garden City. Where else could a true college football fan savor the taste of tailgating, comradery, and the spirit of competition without having to leave Augusta?

Well folks, football will be in our own backyard.

Will the community support it? I’m confident that it will thrive with the same enthusiasm and candor that is shown at the annual CSRA Classic. It will take commitment and resources for Paine to build a competitive program,but this challenge can be met and also serves as a good recruiting tool to attract students. The new multi-million dollar Health Education Activities Learning Complex has come to

fruition. That alone,is enough to be excited about. College, and Shaw University! We’ll be ready for you Augusta is slowly becoming a sports town. I can’t come showtime. Strap Up! believe it. What took so long?

I can only imagine how the late legendary high

By Thurman K. Brown school football coach David Dupree would have felt about the return of the pigskin rivalries in our community on the college level. Augusta-Richmond County school board member Marion Barnes played for Paine in the early 1950’s. Paine’s last football game was in 1962,with an 8-0 over Livingstone College. It would be fitting to renew that rivalry.

Augusta could host its own version of the Bayou Classic,one of the biggest rivalries in Black College Football that is played out in the Superdome in New Orleans every Thanksgiving weekend. Augusta State University can boast Trowell Builders & Associates about its success with their men’s basketball and golf programs,but Paine has shown perserverence through struggle and adversity.

Restoring the football program at Paine is like a dream deferred and a blessing delivered.

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REPUBLICANS from page 10

Obama’s claim to office by suggesting that he was born in Kenya is one manifestation of this ugliness. The Drudge Report’s continued lowlevel gutter-sniping is yet another. From redlettered headlines about Somalis being bused to the polls, to African American women talking about the cellphones President Obama is handing out on campaign stops), these stories are mostly untrue but intended to bestir the racist vote to the polls.

Regrettably, Mitt Romney has not really dis-

tanced himself from this filth, and indeed dabbles in it himself (credentialing the infamous birther-conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi to fly on his campaign plane, inveighing, falsely, against President Obama’s roll-back of welfare reform).

The vomit of racism still finds a place in Republican Party politics. It is sad to watch John Sununu -- twenty years ago, a younger Sununu might have known better. But it is even sadder to watch the rest of Lincoln’s old party sink in the mire.

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