Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 2004 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2004

Rozelle Boyd, City County Council President, Mike Rodman and Mayor Bart Perterson Elect Mike Rodman Treasurer It’s time for a banker!”

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Bush declines BET invitation for interview

Electronic Urban Report

After making the network wait 35 days for an answer, President George W. Bush has declined an offer by BET founder and CEO Robert Johnson to address AfricanAmerican voters in his own primetime BET Nightly News interview. The invitation was extended to candidates of both parties on Sept. 14. Democratic nominee, Sen. John Kerry, accepted, and appeared in a half-hour interview that ran on Oct. 7. According to White House representatives, Bush’s schedule did not allow time for him to appear on BET, and they asked that the network approach him again, “after the election.” In response to the Bush decline, Johnson has sent an open letter to top African Americans in the Bush administration - Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Education Rod Paige, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson; along with former Oklahoma Republican Con-

gressman J. C. Watts, who is leading a grassroots group of African-American Republicans supporting the Bush reelection effort. The letter says in part: “As leading African Americans appointed by President Bush and supportive of both his policies and his re-election campaign, I urge you to ask the president to reconsider. While we have applauded your appointment to such a key role in the Bush administration, political appointments are not enough when it comes to communicating the president’s plan of action to address issues that African Americans find important. “There is little doubt that African-American voters have the power to decide the outcome of this election. Our invitations to President Bush and Sen. Kerry were each candidate’s chance to show African Americans that their issues, opinions and their votes really matter. To decline this opportunity does not send a very positive signal to African Americans with just days left before the election.”

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