Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.metro From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 16:10:35 EST Message-ID: \SE B;METROPOLITAN;THAT'S POLITICS \BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES JORDAN VOTES, PART II Vernon Jordan, chairman of President-elect Bill Clinton's transition team, hasn't been too diligent about voting in some District primary elections. Last week this column noted that Mr. Jordan failed to vote in the primary in 1990, the same year he headed the transition team for Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly. At the time, he said out-of-town travel was the reason he missed several D.C. elections. So did he vote this past Election Day? A recent check with the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics provides the answer. Mr. Jordan, former head of the Voters Education Project and the National Urban League, became a registered D.C. voter on Dec. 23, 1986. He missed the 1987 school board election, the 1988 council primary, the 1990 mayoral primary and the 1992 council primary - which included an at-large council race and six ward races. He lives in Ward 3, where there was no contest this year. Mr. Jordan, however, voted in the 1988 presidential primary and general elections, the 1990 mayoral general election, the 1991 referendum to impose liability on assault-weapon manufacturers and the 1992 presidential primary. And yes, Mr. Jordan cast a ballot in person on Nov. 3, according to election records. OFF AND RUNNING A whirlwind four-week campaign got under way in Virginia's 38th House District in Fairfax County yesterday, when party nominees were chosen to run for the state legislative seat vacated by Delegate Leslie Byrne, who was elected to Congress Nov. 3. Democrat Bob Hull, a member of the Fairfax County Park Authority, will face GOP hopeful Strode Brent, who lost to Mrs. Byrne in the 38th in the late 1980s. The election is scheduled for Dec. 15. BARRY'S 'FOR SALE' SIGN Already there's trouble in Ward 8 among D.C. Council member-elect Marion Barry's camp of supporters. Some real estate brokers in the ward are angry that he placed his Ward 7 house up for sale with Shannon & Luchs instead of a minority-owned company. The two-story brick colonial, in the 3600 block of Suitland Road SE in the tranquil section of Hillcrest, has a $225,000 price tag. From a reporter's view, it's a wonderful house. The former mayor hosted several media crab feasts there. The back yard was used for a news conference hours before he checked into the federal prison in Petersburg, Va., and reporters staked out the alley behind the house after his 1990 arrest at the Vista Hotel. "I think it is a shame he can't even allow the $7,000 or $8,000 commission to go to black people," said one broker, angered by the listing. "To me that is a slap in the face." Mr. Barry, who moved into an apartment in Ward 8 in the spring to launch his political comeback, said he has a track record of 30 years of support to minority business and gave small businesses $1.7 billion in city contracts when he was mayor. "Valerie Barry, no relation to me, is a friend of mine. I asked her to sell my house. She works with Shannon & Luchs," he said. Ms. Barry is black, he said. MONEY TALKS Citizens on Sensible Taxation (COST), Fairfax County's premier anti-tax group, is so broke it had to throw itself a fund-raiser last week. The event, cleverly disguised as a roast for COST founders Ted and Marcy Dykes, was attended by a cast of GOP characters, from gubernatorial hopeful Earle Williams to Thomas M. Davis III, chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. Several observers wondered why Northern Virginia's conservative glitterati would want to honor a group that sued the Board of Supervisors - several of whom were in attendance - and lobbied to kill a meals tax that enjoyed bipartisan support. "People are afraid of Ted and Marcy," said one. About 175 of those fearful people dutifully shelled out $35 each for a plate of chicken and a cash bar at the Fort Myer Officers Club in Arlington to be seen and listen to the entertainment. Mr. Davis presented the couple with a proclamation. "I'm sorry, we didn't have enough money for a frame," he said. * Compiled by Vincent McCraw with contributions from Jonetta Rose Barras and Lorraine Woellert. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM