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-w -5 If f- fc 1 Oakland Tribune Wednesday, October 28, 1992 A-3 New accusations in race ByCralgBtaata EL ECT I ON 92 1: 1. Novak said, Baker donated his state per diem payments to local charities. However, Baker has accepted pay raises when approved by the Legislature. Its like any other vote," Novak said. Williams, a Walnut Creek management consultant, said Baker lacks the courage fo stand up and vote for a raise, but has the gall to put the tax money In his pocket, anyway." The two candidates are vying to represent the suburban East Bays new 10th Congressional District, which was cre ated In last years redistricting.

Baker, a state assemblyman since 1980, touts his credentials as a budget analyst and criticises Congressional perquisites. Williams, however, said it is fraud-for Baker to portray himself as a reformer when he has has taken advantage of privileges In the state Legislature and accepted campaign contributions from poli tidal action committees. Williams said Baker has accepted 835,000 in gifts and speaking fees, including football and basketball tickets. In what has become the nastiest political campaign In the East Bay this fall, Democrat Wendell Williams yes--terday accused Republican coogression- al opponent. Bill Baker, of hypocrisy for voting against pay raises four times in the state Legislature, but accepting the money.

1 If he truly opposed the pay raise, why didnt he give the taxpayers money back? Williams asked. Bakers campaign is the height of hypocrisy. Baker press secretary Ales Novak shrugged off Williams latest criticism. Hes faxing something every day, Novak said. During last summers budget crisis, Wendell Williams BUI Baker Contra Costa lops $51.7 million as budget approved By Marina QottachaBc The departments hardest hit were Social Services and the Sheriffs Office each of which lost over 100 positions MARTINEZ The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors yesterday finally adopted the budget for 1992-93, although there will be additions and subtractions down the road as revenues and expenses change.

It seems were always considering the county budgrt. This is the sixth time since July, said County Administrator Phil Batchelor. The county has a general fund operating budget of $576 lion, after $51.7 million in cuts made over the past several months. The total budget, including restricted accounts, is $771 million. Most of the budget discussions yesterday centered on the Public Defenders Office and its now-controversial Alternative Defense Office.

The public defender takes clients who cannot afford to hire an attorney to represent them in criminal cases. In the past, when there is a conflict that precludes the public defender from representing someone, the person has been referred to the Conflict Defense Program of the Contra Costa County Bar Association for representation by a private attor- terday that the ADO is illegal because it was set up without public hearings and that it is not cost-effective. Approval of this budget is equal to authorization of the ADO, said private attorney Darren Kessler. He said no studies had been done to show that the ADO was cost effective, and that similar programs had been tried in other counties and failed. Essentially, the ADO gives the public defender a monopoly of the poor in this county, said Kessler.

El Cerrito attorney Peter Dodd told the board that Apme-da County rejected a similar claim of the program. Dodd said that because of the heavy caseload of the public defender and the ADO it was possible that a client could win an based on an inadequate appeal Pkotea kf 1km OmemAJiUtai THbmt defense fense Alternate Defense Office (ADO), a unit of the public defenders office, was established earlier this year to handle cases the public defender did not accept Accusations were made yes- and the 'county would then have to spend a great deal of money to retry a case. See BUDGET, Page A-4 reform the budget process, and restructure the UC Board of Regents. The American Federation of State, City and Municipal Employees, the UC-American Fed: eration of Teachers, University Professional and Technical Employees and the Association of Graduate. Student Employees, represent about 10,000 workers on the UC-Berkeley campus.

The demonstration was called to halt trickle down bad management, skid Libby Sayre, statewide president of the technical workers union. Four unions representing UC-Berkeley staff, faculty and graduate student workers protested fee hikes and staff cuts at a demonstration held at Sprout Plaza yesterday at noon. A woman who identified herself only as 'Spirit above, wears a mask of the dock on the Campanile asking how much time before the pinch is felt She was among demonstrators, like freshman student Marissa Lopez, right, who demanded that UC officials negotiate in good faith with campus labor unions, Emery ville bullish on its Amtrak station plan By Beany EvangeHeta officials yesterday said they are studying an even more ambiti-tous station in West Oakland. Emeryvilles station will be built just north of the Powell Street overpass on Landregan Under agreements signed yesterday, Emeryville and Ware-ham Development of San Rafael will build the station, designed to accommodate 150 passengers per hour. Amtrak will lease the station for $1 million spread over the life of a 25-year agreement and then take over owner- Gals naked student bares case in court By WWarn Brand -1.

EMERYVILLE As Oakland officials stressed that plans for a new Jack London Square Amtrak station are still on track, Emeryville officials yesterday did some civic chest puffing during ceremonies to herald their own new station. It's gratifying to know a litUe city as small as Emeryville can do such a grand and great thing, said Emeryville Mayor Robert Savage, standing on a gravel-filled lot near the Emery Bay Public Market that will become a $6 million Amtrak station by July 1993. The ceremonial "lease signing beat by one day groundbreaking ceremonies planned by Emeryvilles bigger neighbor to the south for a $16 million Jack London Rail Station just eight miles away. In fact; groundbreaking ceremonies are also on tap today for new or remodeled Amtrak stations in Hayward, Fremont and Santa Clara. And Oakland city jntrak in the hallway waiting to get married," said clerk Nancy Mathes.

They were really shocked. The Alameda County deputies came down and arrested him. Thirty minutes later Martinez from the Municipal Court holding cell ing a womans slip and carrying a new court summons. The deputies told me if I take the slip'off in here theyll arrest me again, Martinez said as he rolled the garment down to the waist, baring his chest must vacate its current dilapidated station at 16th and Wood streets in Oakland by July 1993 to make way for the selves, Radiscfa said. While Martinez might shock someone, there appeared not to be evidence of lewd behavior, he said.

Radisch added that members of the XpU-, cit Players, who have paraded around campus and the city in recent months bearing their breasts, would not be prosecuted for the same reason. However, he said, at a recent nude-in at campus cops missed one ffhance for an arrest that wmild stick. There was this one guy who painted his Sin different colored stripes and was lg up and down drawing attention to discii Mid. That might stand a chance See NAKED, Page A-4 BERKELEY It isnt easy being nude. Ask Andrew Martinez famous as UC-Berkeleys nude student The burly, muscular Martinez man has been attending classes in the nude aU year in an attempt to strike a blow for human freedom and the right to wear or not wear what one pleases.

Martinez came to Berkeley-Albany Municipal Court yesterday to appear on one of two charges of indecent exposure stemming from arrests by campus cops. Martinez entered the court building with a skateboard under his arm, wearing only a backpack, and wound up under arrest again. There was this young couple down there Cypress replacement freeway. Port of Oakland officials, who have planned a new station since 1988, offered a temporal? station at Embarcadero and Al-. ice street, with a permanent station ready by 1994.

But in less than one See STATION, Page A-4 Once in court, he got good news. Deputy District Attorney Jack Radiscfa said he would not prosecute either UC arrest The way the law is written in California, plus court deci-1 all the way back to 1972, require a per- son to willfully and lewdly expose them-. in N. Richmond a popular drug area, where bunch of young people are milling about These are the bad ones, she said. Were trying to help them but its hard to get to thenL A man calls out as the car passes, You need Cocaine? But then, over on First Street, she points to the lack of activity, the clean streets, Weve cleaned it up, she said proudly.

North Richmond came into overwhelmingly African-American, with 103 Southeast Aslan residents, most of them Laotians. Residents often complain they are ignored because they are not part of a city. "That community has power, it Just doesnt have access, said Arnold Perkins of the San Francisco Foundation, director of the Koshland Award Program. But unlike comparable communities that are politically under-represented, like Washington, D.C.s outskirt population, Perkins predicted that increasing waves of violence will probably not be in North Richmonds 1980 when the last census was taken. An unincorporated area, its government services are provided partially by the neigb-.

boring city of Richmond and partially by Contra Costa County. It has a reputation for being a drug and crime hot spot But exactly how much crime occurs there is unclear. Some, like Michelle Washington, director of North Richmond Neighborhood House, say people In surrounding communities have exaggerated the areas violence. Washington insists there has been only one homicide this year, thoujgh in past years it has been worse. When official statis By Lurena KalMaan Hatter apucUleamMbmm NORTH RICHMOND -On a sunny morning on a dean but blighted street, Margery Woodard sees a thin, quiet man sitting on the opposite curb.

SWhat are you doing? out nan, who has AIDS, looks up. VOh, I dont know. Nothing really. Well, come over here with me, she shouts. Although be appeals tired, the man crosses the street in seconds at her invitation.

Were theri because we care for them. They know that she said. Were out there in the street every day, hand in hand. date her assertion, she said. Others say homicide numbers have gone down but for the wrong reasons.

Homicide is down from last year. North Richmond in 1991 had nine murders. For a community of 2,500, thats high, said sheriffs Sgt Scott Daly. This year, I believe its three or- four. I cant speculate as to why it is down.

But of the murders there, most were attributed to drug gangs. Last year they were probably trying to solidify their territory, and this year maybe theyve done that, because theyre very much in trol of North Richmond, Daly said. The residential areas are Woodard, 62, is a foot soldier in North Richmonds war on poverty and its attendant ills crime, drug abuse, poor health, despair. She and 11 other community workers were honored recently -by The San Francisco tion, which gives the Daniel E. Koshland Civic Unity Awards to recognize the grass-roots risk takers the social innovators of bold spirit who accept even the most stubborn neighborhood problems as a personal challenge.

For Woodard and the others, ItS an uphill job. This particular morning, driving around her small community, she goes by the corner of Fifth and Market, existence during World War when people from southern slates came north In search of shipyard jobs. Several of the offspring of those laborers are still here. It has a population of 2,347 people, only si more than in See COMMUNITY, Page A-4 tics are released they will vali .4.