Lazu

As I've traveled from state to state over the years, I've heard folks saying that "we need another Malcolm, we need another Martin," as if dynamic hip-hop generational leaders like Malia Lazu, Ras Baraka, April Silver, Shani Jamila, and Brian Echols don't even exist.

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Lazu: I do not see Kerry's stance on the war as being so different to push people to vote.

GENEXT: 'We Need to Show Up' 2007

Lazu: Every time we see an increase in turn out it's because of local politics and basic education.

GENEXT: 'We Need to Show Up' 2007

Lazu: I have raised voter turn out in Boston six years in a row and we only knocked on doors once a year.

GENEXT: 'We Need to Show Up' 2007

Lazu: There is no correlation between registering voters and voter turn out.

GENEXT: 'We Need to Show Up' 2007

Lazu: Voting is not easy to do, we act like you can wake up one day and vote.

GENEXT: 'We Need to Show Up' 2007

Lazu, a former city contract compliance supervisor accused of trading favorable treatment of Costa for a new driveway at Lazu's Hartford home, also was in court Thursday.

Hartford Courant blogs 2009

Prosecutors accused Lazu, once a contract compliance supervisor, of trading favorable treatment of city contractor Carlos Costa for a new driveway at Lazu's Hartford home.

Courant.com Blogs 2009

It was telling that none of the regulars (everyone but Lazu) seemed to have any hands-on experience with distressed homeowners.

News Hounds 2009

Just minutes after claiming that Charlie Gibson's question to Sarah Palin about the Bush Doctrine was a "gotcha question," Neil Cavuto played a ten second gotcha clip of Obama saying that in Dover, and then he launched into a five minute segment featuring Democratic Strategist Malia Lazu during which Lazu could hardly get a word in edgewise given Cavuto's ranting interruptions as he hammered away at her, implying that Obama is a flip-flipping liar.

News Hounds 2008