ROUGH WORKING MEMO: REPORT ON WASHINGTON, D.C. LOTTERY BOARD CONSIDERATION OF INVESTMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA AS A FACTOR IN AWARDING OF NUMBERS GAME CONTRACT
ROUGH WORKING MEMO: REPORT ON WASHINGTON, D.C. LOTTERY BOARD CONSIDERATION OF INVESTMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA AS A FACTOR IN AWARDING OF NUMBERS GAME CONTRACT
The memorandum says the bidding process on the D.C. numbers game has become politically entangled and extremely controversial; the Board granted a contract to one of three partnerships vying for it, and the other two filed suit against the Board on the grounds that it have failed to adequately take into account its rules as to minority participation; one of the two partnerships that filed suit included Control Data Corporate, Columbia Gaming Services (presided over by a Black man named Tom Ahart), and Robert Washington, a prominent D.C. Black lawyers who is a close friend of Mayor Marion Barry and one of his key deputies, Ivanhoe Donaldson. The memorandum says when the bidding was re-opened,...
The memorandum says the bidding process on the D.C. numbers game has become politically entangled and extremely controversial; the Board granted a contract to one of three partnerships vying for it, and the other two filed suit against the Board on the grounds that it have failed to adequately take into account its rules as to minority participation; one of the two partnerships that filed suit included Control Data Corporate, Columbia Gaming Services (presided over by a Black man named Tom Ahart), and Robert Washington, a prominent D.C. Black lawyers who is a close friend of Mayor Marion Barry and one of his key deputies, Ivanhoe Donaldson. The memorandum says when the bidding was re-opened, City Council member John Ray, the chief proponent of a divestment bill currently under consideration by the Council, and four other members of the Council wrote a letter to the Lottery Board urging them to add the "South Africa factor" to the issues they considered this second time around. The memorandum mentions Salih Abdul-Rahim, TransAfrica, the Washington Office on Africa, Christine Root, Brent Coopersmith, Nkechi Taifa, Nana Seshebi, PAC (Pan Africanist Congress), Margaret Gentry, Lea Adams, Brenda Enoch, and Wilhelmina Rolark. [Note: Control Data Corporate may be Control Data Corporation.]
