Ticker tape

Jet, Dec 23, 2002 by Simeon Booker

Confidential: Former Atlanta Mayor Maynard H. Jackson reportedly is considering mounting an offense against Democratic Chairman Terry McAuliffe concerning the party's poor record during the November election ... He has asked the chairman to schedule a meeting to explain the tremendous losses along with the poor treatment of longtime Black party voters ...

When Prince Georges County (MD) Executive Wayne Curry, a Black, recently stepped down, politicos speculated on what the Democratic standout would do next. The answer-he'll join the transition team of GOP Gov.-elect Robert L. Ehrlich in a dramatic crossover. GOP State Chair Michael Steele, a Black, was elected lieutenant governor on the slate that trounced the Democrats for the first time in 36 years ... Celebrating his 100th birthday on Capitol Hill, South Carolina. Senator Strom Thurmond was praised for a record that started as an ultraconservative and wound up as a moderate ... Lawyer Audrey C. Talley became the chancellor-elect of the Philadelphia Bar Association, the first Black taking that post in the nation's largest metropolitan law group ... Driving a car left without hubcaps after three thefts, Althea Handy recently was named a judge on Baltimore's Circuit Court. She refuses to leave her crime-ridden Lafayette Square neighborhood ... Civil Rights Commission Chair Mary Frances Berry has tried for 20 years to change harsh detention conditions applied to Haitians in this country ... Look to the U.S. Postal Service to issue its 29th Black Heritage stamp in January honoring late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall ... Making the decision to keep thousands of federal government workers on or off the job during snowstorms rests on the shoulders of OPM Director Kay Coles James, a Black official in Washington, D.C.