ROBERT B. HUNTER

DEMOCRAT FOR COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — WARD 7

Dear Ward Seven Citizen:

On Tuesday, September 12, I ask for your vote to serve as your Ward Seven representative on the Council of the District of Columbia. I will need your support to share with me the work of representation. We shall work together for this Ward.

Together, in Ward Seven, we must remove the blight of abandoned buildings and uncollected trash. We must work to demand needed repairs to our streets and alleys. We must create a community where young men and women can have such meaningful work and life that they do not seek escape into addiction. We must re-vitalize Ward Seven as a community that is safe for children and senior adults. We must improve the quality of life for all of our citizens.

Sadly, in Ward Seven, we have lost the Civil Right to have an elected member from our Ward on the Board of Education. If you elect me as your new Council Member, I will represent the children of this Ward and City by demanding first class per pupil funding for our school system. The present per pupil funding to employ teachers, to educate our children, is second class funding. Our funding is $2,000.00 below the first class per pupil funding paid in Montgomery County and in Alexandria, Virginia. Surely our children in the District must receive the equality of fall first class funding. Then we could return art, music and vocational classes to our schools.

In Ward Seven, there is a need for our member of the Council to be actively engaged with the advisory neighborhood commissioners and the civic associations. To work upon the problems in our community provides the opportunity to engage us together in the work, duties and rights of citizenship.

May I have your consideration and vote to serve as your member on the Council of the District of Columbia from Ward Seven. My name, Robert B. Hunter, is #4 on the Democratic ballot.

For us,
Robert B. Hunter

• Supports representative government from each ward on the Board of Education and the Council of the District of Columia. He supports "Home Rule" and opposes control by the Federal government.
• Supports the building of new homes of quality construction and long lasting value in Ward Seven, and the renovation of vacant apartments and houses.
• Will join with citizens to urge and impress upon youth the great danger of the loss of health and life that comes from drug use and chemical addiction.
• Will work to insure that citizens who lose citizenship because of criminal activity receive penalties of Justice, not suffer the penalties of what is the crime of "criminal justice".
• Supports a more alert Alcohol Beverage Control Board to enforce laws against under under age drinking.
• Will work to guard against any discrimination that may occur against the poor in Washington's private hospitals if the D. C. General Hospital is forced to close.
• Supports the continued growth and vitality of the University of the District of Columbia and the development and building of a residential college campus.
• Supports due increases in salary for all District government employees.
• Supports the end of the patrol, of the Board of Control, that has our Rights, on parole.
• Has received the endorsement of the Far Northeast/Southeast Council, Inc.

About Robert B. Hunter:
Robert B. Hunter, Rector of the Episcopal Church of the Atonement for 25 years, is a graduate of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. Married to Dorothea, retired librarian D. C. Public Schools. Their three children attended public schools and graduated from Fisk, Hampton and Howard Universities. Robert B. Hunter, during 40 years of ministry in Tennessee, Georgia and the District of Columbia, is still involved in the Civil Rights Movement and in the empowering of citizens of the community.

Paid for by the Robert B. Hunter-Ward Seven Campaign. Dorothea Hunter, Chair; Lillie White, Treasurer; Maxine Gordon, Secretary. (202) 397-8342.