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United Press International
HOUSTON — Mayor Kathy
Whitmire Monday urged approval
of a referendum banning city job
discrimination against homosexuals
despite word officials in her Cham
ber of Commerce audience did not
want it brought up.
The Chamber opposes the refer
endum to be held Saturday on a pro
posed city ordinance to prohibit dis-
I crimination in city hiring based on
i “sexual orientation.” Whitmire
voted for the ordinance when it was
[approved by City Council in June,
I but the citywide vote was f orced by a
petition with 60,000 signatures.
Paul Mabry, the mayor’s press sec-
I retary, said he received a phone call
[Wednesday from the Chamber’s di
rector of intergovernmental rela
tions who said the mayor’s annual
“State of the City” address could be
canceled if there was an indication
1 she would talk about the issue.
“I thought it was so ludicrous that
jl didn’t repeat it to the mayor until
[Friday,” Mabry said.
Whitmire said in a news confer-
lence following the speech there was
|no consideration given to not men-
Itioning the referendum.
“When there is an election per-
llaining to city business, I make it a
jpractice of mentioning it whenever 1
Italk to voters,” Whitmire said. “I
Idon’t hesitate to defend my opin-
lions.”
The mayor said if the referendum
[were defeated, “it would allow dis-
Icrimination to lie the policy of the
[city."
Opposition to the referendum
[also includes a coalition of ministers,
la group of doctors and the Ku Klux
[Klan. Whitmire, now in her second
|term, said she does not believe her
iipport for the issue will harm her
|political future.
"I think this issue will be approved
Iby the voters because the issue is one
lol basic fairness,” she told reporters.
"We cannot risk our reputation as
la city of opportunity,” Whitmire told
labout 800 members of the Chamber
Jof Commerce. "We cannot afford to
(be known as a city that condones dis
crimination.”
Whitmire said economic devel
opment is the No. 1 priority for
185. The Chamber’s executive
[committee fears approval of the ref
erendum would harm the business
climate in the city.
The mayor said she is confident
[the rift with the Chamber will be for-
Igotten after Saturday’s vote.
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TDC to continue annual event
United Press International
HUNTSVILLE —The Texas De
partment of Corrections Board re
jected a proposal Monday to do away
with the annual prison rodeo, de
spite a board member’s claims the
event is dangerous for the state, in
mates and spectators.
The motion from Board Secretary
Harry Whittington to discontinue
the rodeo until it is officially estab
lished by an act of the Legislature
died for lack of a second.
Whittington told board members
they were obligated to protect the
state from lawsuits that could arise
not only from injured prisoners, but
from spectators who also could be
injured.
The TDC has held a yearly rodeo
in Huntsville since 1931. The rodeo
now is staged every Sunday in Octo
ber at the Walls Unit of the TDC.
“The rodeo in 1931 was never au
thorized by the Legislature,” he said.
“It was entertainment for the prison
ers and prison employees. Does the
TDC have the rignt to use inmates
for entertainment?”
The TDC spends about $100,000
in compensation time to guards who
work the Sunday rodeos. An average
$277,822 has been earned from the
rodeo the past five years, but only
$70,000 was taken in last year be
cause of bad weather. Attendance
averages 75,402 a year.
Inmates with rodeo experience
participate in traditional rodeo
events such as steer wrestling, bare-
back bronc riding and bull riding.
Prisoners with no experience are
known as redshirts anti take part in
events such as wild cow milking and
the Suicide Sunday, in which they
try to grab a bag of money from be
tween the horns of a wild bull.
Last year, 39 convicts were treated
for injuries at the Walls’ infirmary,
and four were hurt seriously enough
to require hospitalization.
“I can’t think of something that is
so in violation of our duties to pro
tect the public,” he said. “Our obliga
tion is to keep the state of Texas out
of lawsuits. I think we could do the
state of Texas a better service and
the inmates a better service by find-
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October.”
Several board members who de
clined to support Whittington’s mo
tion agreed he had raised legitimate
issues that should be examined.
“I think there are issues — cer
tainly the security aspect — that
need to be looked into,” said Board
Chairman Robert Gunn. “Obviously
the board disapproves of abandon
ing the rodeo, out we might take
some of Harry’s points and look into
them.”
Also at the board meeting, mem
bers of the Prisoners Rights Coali
tion requested the board take four
steps to reduce prison violence. The
organization asked that the board
have a special hearing on violence
within TDC, that they appoint a for
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they meet with Gov. Mark White on
the matter and with members of the
House Law Enforcement Committee
and Senate Criminal Justice Com
mittee.
At least 395 inmates were injured
in stabbings at TDC units last year.
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