Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, September 3, 1994 TAG: 9409210025
SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE: A-9 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
The editorial noted the differences between unelected party munchkins and Republicans who win elections, like U.S. Sen. John Warner and Gov. George Allen. Warner is backing Marshall Coleman (winner of Virginia's last statewide GOP primary) rather than official Republican nominee Oliver North for the U.S. Senate. After his landslide election last November, Allen tried but failed to oust McSweeney from the party chairmanship.
Meaningless, McSweeney advised. "[V]oters are fed up with elected officials." Besides, "my hunch is that Oliver North ... will swamp Warner's rump candidate." In other words: "Elected officials," put in office by the voters, are by virtue of that fact discredited and in trouble. And North's candidacy will be validated - because the voters will put him in office!
ROSA PARKS, the courageous black woman who refused to yield her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., was mugged the other day in her Detroit home. The mother of the civil rights movement, 81, was punched in the mouth and robbed of $50 - a sad, sickening, signal event of our times.
The crime serves as another reminder that, to many black people living in America's cities decades after Rosa Parks sat down for her rights, white racists seem less threatening than violent criminals.
by CNB