Starting Off In Kentucky, Mayor Jerry Abramson's "Poorer, Blacker And Older" Louisville.
Abramson apologizes for comment to W. Va. newspaper
By Dan Klepal
Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson issued an apology Monday to anyone offended by a racial reference he made in comments to a West Virginia newspaper.
The remark came last week while Abramson was in Charleston, W.Va., discussing the merger of the city and county governments here in 2003. He was speaking to the editorial page editor and a reporter from the Charleston Gazette, which posted a recording of the conversation on its Web site. Charleston is discussing city-county merger.
"You have the chance to have growth, significant growth in your suburban areas," Abramson said in response to a question about what lessons have been learned since merger. "And the question becomes, as it was in the old city of Louisville, we were a city that was, we were getting poorer, we were getting more minority … we were getting poorer, blacker and older.
"So as I was saying earlier, every time we lost merger in our community, the city always voted for it. The county was the one that voted against it. And at that time when it would lose, it was people living in the suburban areas, who didn't want — didn't want — the problems of the city. And one of the things we tried very hard to make clear is that we are in this together."
By Dan Klepal
Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson issued an apology Monday to anyone offended by a racial reference he made in comments to a West Virginia newspaper.
The remark came last week while Abramson was in Charleston, W.Va., discussing the merger of the city and county governments here in 2003. He was speaking to the editorial page editor and a reporter from the Charleston Gazette, which posted a recording of the conversation on its Web site. Charleston is discussing city-county merger.
"You have the chance to have growth, significant growth in your suburban areas," Abramson said in response to a question about what lessons have been learned since merger. "And the question becomes, as it was in the old city of Louisville, we were a city that was, we were getting poorer, we were getting more minority … we were getting poorer, blacker and older.
"So as I was saying earlier, every time we lost merger in our community, the city always voted for it. The county was the one that voted against it. And at that time when it would lose, it was people living in the suburban areas, who didn't want — didn't want — the problems of the city. And one of the things we tried very hard to make clear is that we are in this together."
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