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May 23, 1974, PHOENIX, PageFOR THE RECORD:Report on the activities of your local%u2605 City and State Legislators %u2605umiHmiiwiiHimiiiiHHMiuiiiiiJwuu BKiBiiimmiiiisiiiniifliHHimiiiiHousing Bill IsBrought to TaskHeights-Hill Democratic State S mator Carol Bellamy charged Governor Wilson and the Republican legislative leadership with outrageous bad faith in connection with the passage of the Governor%u2019shousing package, and said their conduct of the past week is a betrayal of the trust placed in them by the eight million tenants of New York State.%u201c Negotiations were entered into in good faith. A common goal was to repair the damage and chaos incurred in the wake of three years of vacancy decontrol. The negotiations proved fruitful and when agreem ent was reached on a bipartisan measure, the minority supported it, and we did so publicly,%u201d explained Senator Bellamy.%u201c It was not the legislation we originally sought, but we believed that on balance, it treated all those affected fairly, and extended legal protection to those tenants now solely at the mercy of their landlords.%u201dSenator Bellamy noted that the Democrats had the assurance, both publicly and privately, that Governor Wilson would hold firm in his support of this compromise bill.%u201c Then a major concession was sought and granted on our part, with some reluctance. At the insistence of certain local legislators, their portions of the state were removed from the provisions of the bill. Despite the concession, however, it now appears that a narrow partisan controversy fired by anti-tenant special interests was having its effect on the %u2018committed%u2019 Republican leadership.%u201c The Emergency Tenant Protection Act, conceived by the Governor with much fanfare and transformed by honest bipartisan negotiation into a measure worthy of its name, was aborted by the backroom pressures of landlord lobbyists, a handful of intransigent New York City Republicans, and internal Republican leadership feuds. That act should now be entitled %u2018The Landlord Protection Act of 1974.%u2019 %u201c Under the legislation passed, new tenants will be required to pay whatever the landlord demands. This is preciseVoter Registration Needs AidThe Kings County Democratic Coalition, a borough-wide organization of reform Democratic clubs, has called upon the U.S. Justice Department to send federal examiners to Brooklyn to register eligible voters and increase what the group%u2019s chairman, Edward Rogowsky calls %u201c shockingly low rate of registration, particularly among black and Hispanic citizens.%u201dThe low registration and voting rates are to be blamed on a combination of restrictive state laws and the inaction of the City%u2019s Board of Elections he said. These are the circumstances which have led to the application of the Federal Voting Rights Act to Brooklyn, making possible the use of federal registrars, as well as requiring that all changes in voting laws and procedures be reviewed by the Justice Department for possible bias, he added.This federal review recently led to the disapproval of the 1972 statutes creating new Congressional, State Senatorial, and State Assembly districts in Brooklyn and Manhattan, on the ground that a number of districts unlawfully fragment the effectiveness of black and Puerto Rican voters.Rogowsky emphasized KCDC%u2019s support for the creation of districts which are equitable to blacks and Puerto Ricans in Brooklyn as a matter of %u201c simple fairness.%u201d He warned, however, against the use of the redistricting process for political advantage.Delay is an additional danger of the redistricitng process, Rogowsky stated. Since circulation of nominating petitions for the September primary begins June 17, the time left to prepare for petitioning will be inadequate unless a new redistricting plan iscompleted soon. Local member groups of the coalition include: the West Brooklyn Independent Democrats in Brooklyn Heights; the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats in Park Slope; Monument Independent Democrats in Ft. Greene; and the Independent Neighborhood Democrats in Carroll Gardens.Sam Beard, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress in Brooklyn%u2019s still undefined 14th Congressional District, indicated his support of the Kings County Democratic Coalition%u2019s %u201cwatchdog%u201d position on the 1974 redistricting of the borough%u2019s state and federal voting lines.%u201c Like the KCDC, I support every effort to produce racially fair districts, but I will challenge any attempt to gerrymander on nonracial grounds, any attempt to wreck districts solely because they have been won by reformers.%u201dOpenMon - Thurs 11:30-midnightFriday 11:30-1 amSaturday 4pm-lam, TWO ST EP S! 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Pesce%u2019s (D-Brooklyn) amendment to increase the Supplemental budget allocation to community colleges by 10.4 million dollars was defeated 69-79 by a unanimous negative vote by the Republican side.The Pesce amendment would have provided for an additional $8.1 million for the community colleges in the City University of New York system and $2.3 million to the community colleges in the State University of New York system. The supplemental budget allocated only one million dollars to the community colleges. Stressing the special role the community colleges play in urban areas, Pesce added that %u201c ...limiting the allocation to one million dollars provides practically no help to the City%u2019s eight community colleges attended by 87,000 students.Special PhoneRates StoppedState Senator Carol Bellanjy (D.-Brooklyn) announced-the Senate has passed legislation she introduced prohibiting special telephone and telegraph privileges (commonly known as %u201c franks%u201d ) to certain subscribers.Senator Bellamy explained, %u201c Furnishing special telephone service free or at reduced rates to certain people simply results in the shifting of costs to other users.%u201c There would seem to be little reason to permit subspribets in such classes as surgeons, physicians, street railroad corporations, etc., to be permitted this special treatment, particularly in light of burdening the general users with the cost differential in the form of higher rates,%u201d continued the Senator. %u201cThis bill amends Section 92 of the Public Service Law and would eliminate such discriminatory business practice.%u201dMay 31 and June 1, 1974 will be the dates of the Brooklyn Crime Prevention Exposition at the Brooklyn Academy of Music%u00bb Free to the public, Expo will be held from Noon to 6 p.m. on both days.Sponsored by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Brooklyn Development Association and the Brooklyn Business Coordinating Council in cooperation w ith the New York City Police Department, Expo will include a wide variety of crime prevention exhibits*demonstrations and lectures.Both private industry and the New York City Police Department will be showing their wares. Lie detectors, locks and closed circuit TV will be on hand and lectures and demonstrations on the prevention of burglary of homes and business, rape, street crime, pickpocket and confidence games are scheduled. There will also be a police mounted unit, composite artists, narcotic control displays, make-up men from the police street crime unit, karate dem onstrations and much more.IUIlHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllHIIllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH|||||lilllUIIIIlIIlllCIIIinilIi!llllllllltllHIIIIIlimiIIIStudents to Run forCommittee PositionsThe Kings County Democratic Coalition (KCDC), the Brooklyn wing of the progressive New Democratic Coalition, has announced plans to recruit college students to run for the Brooklyn Democratic County Committee. It is hoped that this recruitment effort will be a means of broadening participation by young people in the processes of government at the grass roots level.The County Committee, whose members are unpaid party officials, is the official policy-making body of the Democratic Party in Brooklyn. Individual County Committee members are elected from a single election district, which usually consists of only a few apartment buildings or a couple of blocks of private homes. A candidate forCounty Committee can usually win bv gathering a small number of signatures (generally 25-30) on a nominating petition, and getting neighbors to vote for him or her in the Democratic primary.Anyone interested in running for County Committee should send his or her name, address, and phone number to KCDC vice-chairperson Sholom Schwartz at 1347 East 17th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11230.The KCDC is a coalition of fifteen reform Democratic clubs. 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