Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 2000 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2000

ELECTION

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cratic Party leaders at their February convention, broke the slate receiving 15,413 votes and capturing the ninth and final judicial slot on the Democratic ticket If Judge Shaheed, Hawkins and Brown are elected in November, along with Republican Judge Rueben Hill, who was nominated Tuesday by GOP voters, then there would be eight African-American jydges out ofthe county’s 31 Supeior Courts, the most ever. Leading the Democratic juditial ticket was Drug Court Commissioner Barbara Collins with 20,457 votes. In third place was incumbent Judge Evan Goodman with 19,028. Followed in order by: Judge Thomas Carroll 17,672 votes, John Hanley 17,645; Becky Pierson-Treacy 17,582; Mark

Stoner 15,966; Shaheed and Brown. Voters also rejected the Democratic Party’s endorsed candidate for Marion County Surveyor as Mary Catherine Barton defeated slated candidate Diane Keller 12,446 votes to 10,933 votes. Barton will face Republican Marion County Surveyor Jack Irwin in November. Even though overall voter turnout was low, voters turned out as strong as they did four years ago to vote in the hotly contested race for IPS Board at-large seats. Incumbent Anna Parker, the outspoken former IPS teacher, and African-American activist and minister Elder Lionel T. Rush and seven others were soundly defeated by Clarke Campbell. Campbell, a Marion County deputy prosecutor who was endorsed by Parents for Public Education and the Indianapolis Educa-

tion Association, received 5,074 votes. Elder Rush trailed badly, coming in second with 3,337 votes, followed by school choice advocate Derek Redelman with 3,012 and Anna Parker with 2,505 votes. Also receiving votes were; Betty Mays 2,156; Odessa Alums-Shobe 1,878; Milton Baltimore Jr. 1,578; Andrew Hart 1,165; Wayne Wohlfert 649 and Gregory Shemwell 559. The' three other incumbent IPS board members, Marianna Zaphirou, Dr. Mary Busch and Donald Payton won re-election easily. Zaphirou defeating Kurt St. Angelo and Louis Tryone-Burris in District 1; Dr. Busch winning over Diane Cynthia Townsend in District 2 and Donald Payton beating back a serious challenge from LaTrece Coleman and Cheryl Fletcher in District 4. In the biggest upset of the election, conservative Marvin Scott

won the Republican nomination for Congress in the 10th Congressional District. Tony Samuels had been expected to win the primary contest. He had blanketed the district with yard signs and conducted an aggressi ve door-to-door pri mary campaign. The entire Marion County Republican establishment, including former Mayor Bill Hudnut, had endorsed Samuels, the young Department of Education staffer. Yet Scott crushed Samuels’ first try for elective office by a 2 to I margin 15,930 to 8,074. Samuels’ crushing defeat is another blow to the already shattered Marion County Republican organization. Scott will now face Congresswoman Julia Carson who easily was renominated with 22,682 votes to 2,583 votes for Ralph Spelbring, an Elkhart resident who doesn’t even live in the district. Controversial candidate and Bobby (Kern)

Hidalgo received just 942 votes. The contest this year in the 10th District marks the first time in Indiana history that two African Americans have run in the general election for Congress. In the remaining Democratic primary contests, all Black incumbent officeholders easily won renomination, including state Sen. Glenn Howard who swamped Jermaine Woolery by a 7 to 1 margin. After going two years with no minority representation, one African American has been elected to the Pike Township School Board. Last year the Pike School Board was expanded to seven members in an attempt to increase the chances for minority representation in the Northwestside school district. In this election, Pike voterscould choose up to five candidates in the at-large race. According to unofficial returns from the Marion County

Clerk’s Office, John Newton)-tin! African American and an assisTanJ principal at Carmel High School was elected to the Pike Schorl Board. In the final unofficial returns, Evelyn Potter, an African American, missed winning the fifth and final seat by some 80 votes. Finally, as expected. Gov. Frank O’Bannon will face Republican David McIntosh in the race for governor. A long-time legislator and former two-term lieutenant governor, O’Bannon will face off against three-term Congressman McIntosh, a former aide to Presi-^ f dent Ronald Reagan and a key lieu-,} tenant to former House Speake^ Newt Gingrich and an architect of the Gingrich Republican revolution in Congress. . .. With the exception of school boards, the final decision of the voters will be Tuesday, Nov. 7„ ..

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