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Jet, March 11, 2002 by Simeon Booker

Confidential: Ohio's next lieutenant governor will be a Black woman, either Republican Jennette B. Bradley, a Columbus city council member, or Democrat Charleta B. Tabares, a former minority whip in the legislature. Governor Bob Taft picked Bradley as his running mate against challenger Tim Hagan and produced the unusual contest ...

When Colorado Lt. Gov. Joe Rogers, a Black, didn't make the governor's re-election team, he immediately filed to nm for U.S. Congress in the state's newest district ... Listing $1.02 million as results of his 2001 fundraising was Oklahoma Rep. J.C. Watts, the House's GOP conference chairman and only Black Republican in the Congress ... After novelist Toni Morrison described him as "the nation's first African-American President," Bill Clinton has enjoyed an unusual popularity among Black people. Right now, his proposed presidential library in Little Rock, AR, has attracted the attention of Blacks. Many streaming into the area as operators of galleries and African clothing stores and thousands of others as tourists ... Journalist Michele N. K. Collison discovered that the problem of styling her daughter's hair was one shared by many other Black families. So she researched it and wrote a book. A party recently was held in Washington to introduce her book on Black hairstyling ... Newest VIP Couple: David J. Byrd, Social Security Administration communications aide, and his wife, Jacquie, the White House director of management ... Former Al Gore campaign manager Donna Brazille lobbied the Congressional Black Caucus to support "the soft money" legislation on the Hill.