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new role: Lobby for statehood for Washington DC Sunday November 25 1990 The Kansas City Star A-9 HOTEL FUR SALE TODAY ONLY Task comes with job as a Chicago Tribune Double Your Savings JCPenney Optical Center Metro North Shopping Center 436-8300 Blue Ridge Mall 358-6400 Ward Parkway Shopping Center 363-3600 Bannister Mall 765-3700 Oak Park Mall 492-8150 Indian Springs Mall 28P-3000 JCPenney Catalog Outlet Store (1-35 75th Street) 642-8600 Topeka 273-4400 JESSE JACKSON a job with no salary introducing The ULTRA Family of contact Lenses from Bausch Lomb WASHINGTON Jesse Jack-son the Baptist preacher two-time presidential candidate civil rights activist columnist international negotiator and television talk show host is adding another line to his resume: official lobbyist to persuade Congress to make Washington DC the state of New Columbia Washington voters handed Jackson his first elective office on Nov 6 a six-year term as one of the two new Also elected for the first time was one shadow representative The jobs have no salaries offices or budgets Frank Watkins longtime strategist said the shadow job during the next two years would be to get legislation granting statehood to the capital passed by the House of Representatives and Senate and signed by President Bush The Washington Post reported that Jackson had drawn up a campaign strategy that had him promoting statehood nationally drumming up public support and challenging members of Congress to go on record in favor of it plan reportedly called for the other shadow senator Florence Pendleton a community activist to lobby Congress and for the shadow representative Charles Moreland a lawyer and political consultant to manage the local effort Jackson denied in an interview that such a strategy had been suggested of us will be lobbying for he said adding that he feels extra because he received more than 105000 votes on Nov 6 nearly twice as many as Pendleton Jackson obviously is the better known figure nationally and he acknowledged that the 7 million votes he received during his run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 us a level of to the national opinion leaders that the others do not have The kind of access the delegation will get to the Senate and House is another subject that needs to be resolved before the A technological breakthrough by Bausch 8 Lomb has produced a new family of daily wear lenses They are more comfortable to wear easier to handle and have substantially improved visual acuity These new lenses are so incredible they are even easier to find if you drop them OFFER SPEC1M nKSntiense5 is v0U SAVE1JZ Sooe 17052 new Congress convenes in January For nearly 20 years the District of Columbia has elected a delegate to the House The delegate sits on committees and participates in most House business but cannot vote Only once in 1796 when Tennessee sought admission as a state has the Senate allowed two representatives of a territory to observe proceedings from the floor but not participate according to the Senate historical office Following that example Alaska sent two shadow senators to Washington in 1957 the first time the shadow designation was informally applied The Alaskans were admitted to the diplomatic gallery of the chamber Alaska became a state two years later The other states that sent senators before they were granted statehood Michigan California Minnesota and Oregon received no special recognition really hard to generalize on Senate treatment since they seem to act on a case-by-case said Jo Anne McCormick Quatan-nens assistant Senate historian Jackson who met with the congressional leadership last summer said he would meet again soon with Senate Majority leader George Mitchell a Maine Democrat and House Speaker Tom Foley a Washington Democrat in a set of ynr IRoval Optical! 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