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“There is no better reason
than to come over here and support this young lady for
office,” said Brown when he took the microphone. “The
message needs to carry out – to all the folks who didn’t
vote the last time, when you vote, you are a member and you
get to decide who sits in that seat.”
Hicks Hudson explained
that her candidacy is an effort to bring about “common sense
legislation that will address the needs of our community.”
She noted that “we are not getting our fair share back in
terms of tax revenue- we need to get more back and it’s
getting worse.”
Hicks Hudson encouraged
people to vote and to bring others to the polls with them.
“Help spread the word,” she said as she encouraged her
supporters to help overcome the image of an African-American
community that does not turn out for elections held in years
in between general elections.
Having the last word was
Earl Murry, who spoke to the audience about the need to
donate money to the cause if they wanted their candidate to
have the funds to mount a campaign. Murry also praised the
book that Harold Brown and his wife, Marsha Bordner, have
recently completed, Keep Your Airspeed Up, about his
adventures as an airman and subsequent life as an educator.
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