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12/15/2000 10:42 FAX 225 294 4164 PARDUE OFFICE 116 collectors and determine if property should be seized, and whether penalties and interest should be imposed or waived. I Carmined that most of the delinquent taxpayers were black business ecple where failure to pay was more from being understand in proper bookkeeping than from an intent to daprive the state of its sales taxes. I therefore ordered that there be no seisures, and further ordered = waiver of penalty and interest on most of tham, but had the taxpayer sign an agreement to pay the back taxes in installments. In this way they were allowed to continue operating their business, and the state benefitted by collucting the current rales taxes, and collected most, if not all, of the back taxes. 3. Early Support of Black Woman as Louisiana Delegate. Once I comenced private law practice in Springfield in 1956 (which practice I continue to the present day), I became core active in what I consider politics that include the disadvantaged. In 1971 I ran for Democratic State Committeeman against an avowed represptionist, but was not elected. However at the 1972 caucus of Democrats at Hammond, Louisiana, convened to select delegates to the National Democratic Convention, I ran for an alternate delagate seat pledged to Senator McGovern. During the caucus I was assured of election as an alternate. Instead, I publicly withdrew =y candition and urged my supporters to back Clarm Robertson, a black female educator, so she could be the first black woman alternate delegate from Tangipahoa Parish to the Democratic National Convention. The George Wallace supporters were not rea'y to support a black woman, and she lost, but I still believe I did the right thing. L. Campaire Contributions from the Pear for President Clinton. In the 1992 election, while a member of the Democratic State Central Committee, I personally raised $10,000 for the Loction of President Clinton. Much of this was $25 and $50 contribution from the black population. I am happy to say that the President carrial St. Helena and Tangipahoe Parishes, an effort I ver -1-1 to be a part of. E. Claumiening the Cause of Black Addito BU3 Drivers, While in the early years of by practice in 1969, I was contacted by black school bus drivers from Tangipahoa Perish who were being discriminated against. My investigation disclosed that the black bus drivers were being paid $75 per month, while white bus drivers were bein, yrid $150 per month from the suma school districts. I further found that the local schools were receiving $204.20 per month par bus from the State. I discovered the local school board was taking the excase, which was most of it, and putting it in the school coffers rather than paying the bus drivers. After trying to work: it out with the local school board, I Was summarily rebuffed Hobart C. Jordue, Petitioner Answar to Restion # 17 Page 7

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