Volume
1 Issue 2 - April 2001
VOTER
NEWS NETWORK MAKES HEADLINES!!!
Editorial by Donald V. Watkins:
REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM PARKER FIGHTS TO PROTECT PROPERTY OWNER'S RIGHTS
Alabama State Representative William Parker (D-Birmingham) is waging a fierce fight in the Legislature to protect property owners' rights. In February, the Alabama House of Representatives' Banking and Insurance Committee approved, on an 11-3 vote, a bill that would reduce Alabama property owners' one year right to redeem property in foreclosure. Representative Parker vigorously objected to the bill. more...
| Alabama native and internationally renouned African-American heart surgeon, Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., lends his professional and political expertise to Voter News Network, as one of its chief organizers. more... |
Editorial by Donald V. Watkins:
REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM PARKER FIGHTS TO PROTECT PROPERTY OWNER'S RIGHTS
Alabama State Representative William Parker (D-Birmingham) is waging a fierce fight in the Legislature to protect property owners' rights. In February, the Alabama House of Representatives' Banking and Insurance Committee approved, on an 11-3 vote, a bill that would reduce Alabama property owners' one year right to redeem property in foreclosure. Representative Parker vigorously objected to the bill. more...
Voter News Network organizers, including Birmingham-based banker and publisher Donald V. Watkins, met in Tampa, Florida last January and committed to contribute $1 million in personal political donations for the November, 2002 elections in Alabama. The donations will go to candidates for state and federal offices and related election activities. Voter News Network will not donate monies to political parties. The $1 million level of political contributions from individuals and their families will rank Voter News Network leaders number five on the top 400 list of political donors in the nation, according to the March/April 2001 issue of Mother Jones Magazine (www.motherjones.com).
Voter News Network leaders, who already contribute heavily in the political arena, will channel their donations to voter registration and education activities, get-the-vote-out efforts aimed at independent voters, and to candidates supported by Voter News Network. Voter News Network will also ask the subscribers in our 155,000 database to participate in the fundraising at whatever level is comfortable for them. This participation may well increase the level of donations beyond the $1 million committed by Voter News Network's organizers. more...
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VOTER NEWS NETWORK ORGANIZERS TO SPEND $1 MILLION FOR ALABAMA'S 2002 GENERAL ELECTION
EDITORIAL: REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM PARKER FIGHTS TO PROTECT PROPERTY OWNERS' RIGHTS
SHAIA NO LONGER CANDIDATE FOR UA TRUSTEE
WATKINS ADDRESSED ALABAMA HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS
ASHCROFT ADDS LAWYERS TO VOTING RIGHTS SECTION
SIEGELMAN'S SPECIAL SESSION OF LEGISLATURE COMES UP EMPTY
DOESN'T THE WINNER GET THE SPOILS?
By: Marty Connors & Richard Finley
THE ALABAMA LEGISLATURE PROMISES NEW FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY THROUGH PERFORMANCE-BASED BUDGETING
By: John F. Knight, Jr.
WEALTH CREATION
By: Willie Huff
WHAT DO WE DO NEXT?
By: Richard Dickerson