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  Mervyn M. Dymally - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mervyn Malcolm Dymally, Ph.D. (born May 12, 1926 in Cedros, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Californian politician of mixed Indo- and Afro-Trinidadian heritage.
Dymally is currently a member of the California State Assembly after having come out of retirement in 2002 when Assemblyman Carl Washington was term limited., Dymally was previously a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until 1993.
Dymally received his secondary education at Naparima College, San Fernando, Trinidad, his undergraduate education at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri and Los Angeles State College, his Master's degree from California State University, Sacramento, and his doctorate from United States International University (now Alliant International University), San Diego.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mervyn_M._Dymally   (295 words)

  
 California State Assemblymember Mervyn M. Dymally
Regarded as a senior member of the Legislature, Dymally was elected by his peers as Chairman of the Assembly Democratic Study Group, an organization committed to promoting progressive social and economic legislation.
Dymally is a native of Trinidad, British West Indies, and completed high school in his native land before going to work as a fledgling labor reporter for The Vanguard, a weekly newspaper published by the Oil Workers' Trade Union.
Married to former school teacher Alice Gueno, a native of New Orleans, Assemblyman Dymally is the father of a son, Mark, a daughter, Lynn and grandfather to Miya, Christian and Cameron.
democrats.assembly.ca.gov /members/a52/biography.htm   (455 words)

  
 The HistoryMakers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
California State Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally was born in Cedros, Trinidad on May 12, 1926 to a mother and father from Trinidad and India, respectively.
In 1991, Dymally was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve as a representative to the United Nations, and he retired from Congress in 1992.
Dymally is vice-president of the Pacific Century Institute, a non-profit organization that fosters education and policy dialogue for nations of the Pacific Rim.
www.thehistorymakers.com /biography/biography.asp?bioindex=890&category=politicalMakers   (455 words)

  
 African American Registry: Mervyn Dymally, California Congressman
From 1963 to 1966 Dymally served in the California assembly, and was a member of the state senate from 1967 until 1975.
Dymally defeated Representative Charles H. Wilson and three other candidates in the June 1980 primary in California's Thirty first Congressional District and was decisively elected in November.
Dymally has sponsored legislation advocating the causes of many human rights groups and has devoted particular attention to United States policies toward and assistance levels to nations in Africa and the Caribbean.
www.aaregistry.com /detail.php3?id=883   (368 words)

  
 Politics - Veteran lawmaker renews Black Caucus - sacbee.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Mervyn Dymally came out of retirement four years ago to take a seat in the Assembly, serving as chairman of the Black Caucus, where membership was dwindling as the number of fl voters was decreasing.
Now 80, Dymally is no longer the strapping young immigrant from Trinidad who worked his way out of a series of factory and janitorial jobs to become a teacher and architect of a Los Angeles political machine that launched the careers of dozens of African Americans.
Dymally said he came out of retirement because he could not recruit an African American candidate for an Assembly seat he feared would be lost to the community.
www.sacbee.com /content/politics/story/14269292p-15080415c.html   (1359 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Veteran California politician returns to reclaim Assembly seat at age 76
Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally, D-Los Angeles, is seen in the Assembly Chambers at the Capitol in Sacramento.
Dymally cast a rare tie-breaking vote that led to the passage of the nation's first major gay rights legislation.
Dymally's international dealings made headlines as he aligned himself with notorious figures such as Cuba's dictator Fidel Castro, the Congo's late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/20030214-2303-dymallyscomeback.html   (596 words)

  
 Morningland Conspiracies - December 21, 1983
Allegations that Dymally and his campaign finance chairman, Hugh Pike, were involved in a Morningland bribery scheme surfaced in news accounts that year amid Dymally's bid for re-election as lieutenant governor.
Dymally (since elected congressman) in a published interview and in often-emotional testimony earlier this year before the state Senate Rules Committee, claimed Franchetti engineered his 1978 defeat by leaking false information about the case to the press and "inviting" the FBI to investigate him.
Dymally filed a $1 million libel suit against him last May. Franchetti, in an interview this week with The San Diego Union, noted that Masry is acting as Dymally's attorney in the case.
ex-morninglanders.com /news/news1.htm   (1073 words)

  
 MondoHollywoodPorography
Dymally let the political cauldron bubble for several days before admitting yesterday during a San Diego speech that he didn't think the film was pornographic.
Dymally now is maintaining that Curb's handling of the controversy has replaced the film's content as the main issue.
Mervyn Dymally, although never having seen the film, publicly charged that Curb had done the music for a "pornographic" film and "sung in falsetto in a bath tub scene with two lesbians." A subsequent poll revealed that those who'd heard the charges had, surprisingly, turned 53% to 47% in favor of Curb.
radfilms.com /mondo_hollywood_accusation.htm   (865 words)

  
 Dymally Goes After Shop Towels
When he introduced the bill, Dymally told the press that he had planned to amend it to require additional sanctions, and possibly to ban the use of all re-laundered industrial cloth shop towels altogether.
Dymally is also considering calling in Attorney General Bill Lockyer to investigate the use of the towels in the workplace if legislative efforts to increase workers safety fail during this legislative session.
Assemblyman Dymally's legislation is a good first step toward eliminating this exposure.
www.calnews.com /archives/dymally_toxic_towel_bill_staggers_opponents.htm   (496 words)

  
 CMTA legislative database | Mervyn Dymally | Assembly District 52
Dymally is currently busy doing a great deal of civic work in education, state politics and international affairs (Africa, Asia and the Caribbean).
Dymally originally came to the United States from Trinidad, West Indies at nineteen to become journalism major at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Dymally holds a Master’s degree in Government from California State University, Sacramento, and a Ph.D. in Human Behavior from United States International University, San Diego.
www.cmta.net /legsample.php?leg=dymally_mervyn   (792 words)

  
 Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally Shares Message with Local African American Leaders
Dymally's career he has served twice in the Assembly: from 1962 to 1966 and in his current term which began in 2002.
Assemblyman Dymally came to deliver a message on behalf of the California Legislative Black Caucus, whose current members are five African Americans in the State Assembly and one in the Senate.
Dymally invited luncheon attendees to come to the California Legislative Black Caucus Conference in March of 2005.
www.epa.net /launch/comvcs/comrpts/item?item_id=582218   (873 words)

  
 Occupational Hazards - California Legislator Wants to Protect Workers from   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
California Assembly member Mervyn Dymally (D., Compton) has introduced a bill that would require businesses providing laundered cloth shop towels to companies to affix a warning label alerting users that the towel may have been in contact with hazardous materials.
Dymally joins a growing chorus of environmental and labor organizations who have joined forces to address the growing problem of "toxic towels." These are the re-laundered cloth shop towels used by maintenance workers, mechanics and other industry service people, including factory workers, to clean up chemical and other spills.
According to Dymally, these towels remain high in toxic chemical contaminants even after they are properly laundered.
www.occupationalhazards.com /articles/11460   (368 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Mervyn Dymally, called "the most influential Afro-American in U.S. foreign policy-making today" by Rev. Jesse Jackson, spoke on "Controversies in Recent U.S.-African Relations" Wednesday.
Dymally said fledgling nations historically have not received support from the United States except for protecting its oil interests.
Dymally said the key to breaking civil and political unrest is Africa is not in "a healthy dose of democracy" but a reform in health, education, transportation, free flow of goods and, most importantly, economic support from the United States.
www.bradley.edu /campusorg/scout/archives/040497/african.html   (451 words)

  
 Dymally Stops by Inland Empire :: The Black Voice News :: Serving the Inland Empire for 30 years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Dymally, in an effort to boost community awareness of the pitfalls of Proposition 54 and The Recall Election, began a series of coast to coast community forums starting in San Diego and ending at the northern most border of the state.
Dymally said that he decided to enter the political arena again after he noticed that minority representation in state government was very low and that education was suffering.
Dymally said that the community needs to come together in unity against issues such as Proposition 54 and the Recall Election.
www.blackvoicenews.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1258&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0   (344 words)

  
 Guide to Special Collections -- Public Officials' Papers (POPS)
Mervyn Dymally was born in Trinidad, British West Indies, May 12, 1926.
From the 53rd District, Dymally served as California State Assemblyman, and as State Senator from the 29th District.
Dymally's Assembly/State Senator papers, and approximately 360 linear feet of his Lieutenant Governorship papers.
www.calstatela.edu /library/sc4.htm   (704 words)

  
 Bribe Charge - April 4, 1980, San Diego Evening Tribune
Mervyn Dymally's attorney and a religious cult leader on charges they conspired to solicit and pay a bribe to Dymally when he was lieutenant governor.
Dymally, now a Democratic congressional candidate for the 31st District, was not indicted.
Although Dymally was not indicted, state Justice Department agents, in affidavits filed in Los Angeles, allege that $10,000 in Morningland funds were paid to Masry for Dymally to influence an official act by a state official.
www.ex-morninglanders.com /news/news20.htm   (527 words)

  
 Mervyn Dymally: IMF Adjustment Policies Are "An Absolute, Total Disaster"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Dymally: Well, the story is told, and I understand correctly so, because it came from the sources, that, in the absence of aid for Africa, the emerging Congressional Black Caucus, headed by Rep. Charles Diggs, chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa, from Michigan, went to see Dr. Kissinger.
Dymally: I suspect there are some problems for both Christians and Muslims, and animists, in southern Sudan, because they are in a war zone.
Dymally: There is no question in my mind, when you look at the hidden hands of the British, by using the far-right, fundamentalist Christians, both in London and in the United States, one has to be very concerned about what is going on.
www.aboutsudan.com /interviews/mervyn_dymally.htm   (2403 words)

  
 Cobb: Dymally + Waters vs Garthwaite over King
This time Maxine Waters and Mervyn Dymally have called for the resignation of the head of the County Health Department.
This as a background for the latest scandal to hit the papers which was that a heart patient died because a nurse muted the volume on the (apparently annoying) life support system, so that when he crashed, nobody knew.
Dymally, who must be 170 years old, and was Lt. Governor when I was in high school, protests that the King Drew Medical school followed all the recommendations made when people were working through the reform process and was able to pass muster.
www.mdcbowen.org /cobb/archives/002802.html   (1950 words)

  
 User talk:OCNative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
I was wondering why you moved the page from Mervyn Dymally to Mervyn M. Dymally.
"Mervyn Dymally" gets twice the google hits of "Mervyn M. Dymally", so I am not convinced that it is more common usage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User_talk:OCNative   (1605 words)

  
 Scripps Howard News Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally was quoted in The Mercury News of San Jose that the little girl, whose name is Isis, was African-American, and expressed outrage Riordan would talk to her that way.
And now Dymally says, according to an interview with The Bee, that "I don't remember saying" the girl was African American.
Dymally did concede that he "handled the matter very poorly," and said, "I was very depressed about it.
www.shns.com /shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=CAL-CAPS-07-16-04   (492 words)

  
 LaRouche: Assemblyman Dymally Addresses LaRouche PAC Meeting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
California State Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally addressed the LaRouche PAC town meeting in Los Angeles on April 16, 2005, which was held on the occasion of the state Democratic Party Convention.
Assemblyman Dymally is also a former Lieutenant Governor of California and former U.S. Representative.
You missed most of our discussion, but this is precisely what we were talking about: That we have the potential in this state, and I look at it this way—if we beat Schwarzenegger in 2005, Maria may take him home before 2006.
www.larouchepac.com /pages/otherartic_files/2005/050416_dymally_prt.htm   (948 words)

  
 Politics - Furor grows over Riordan's remark to girl - sacbee.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The NAACP and other civil rights groups had planned to attend a Capitol news conference Thursday called by Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally, D-Compton, who was demanding that Riordan step down.
Dymally's office abruptly canceled the event, however, after learning that the girl is white.
Dymally, who is African American, was quoted in Thursday's San Jose Mercury News stating that the girl was African American and asking whether Riordan "would...
www.sacbee.com /content/politics/story/9933357p-10855351c.html   (1021 words)

  
 The Compton Bulletin Online - LOCAL NEWS
Robinson claims that State College Chancellor Mark Drummond and Dymally are after the funds from a bond passed by the voters last year for the college.
Dymally also addressed a charge by Robinson last week that he had a conflict in the current college controversy because of a contract that he once had with the institution while he was working with a state commission appointed by Drummond.
Late last week in the state capital, Dymally met with Dr. Burgess and Swift in an effort to iron out some of the major problems that have led to this unfortunate circumstance and to direct the focus to what can be done to save the city’s beloved institution.
www.thecomptonbulletin.com /news02_072005   (1195 words)

  
 Dymally Seeks Equal Opportunity Revisions in Civil Service Act
Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally has introduced AB 124, legislation to require each state agency to establish an equal opportunity program to assure that state policy in providing equal access to state jobs based on merit and non-discrimination is implemented.
The State Personnel Board would be required to conduct specified activities such as the collection of specific employment data based on race, ethnicity and gender.
Assemblyman Dymally mentioned reports made to him of “downright racism, and high levels of insensitivity” in some departments and agencies of the government.
www.exodusnews.com /california/California069.htm   (227 words)

  
 My Spin Zone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Alice Huffman, president of the California chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said Thursday that Riordan "is not suitable to lead education in our state" and should be removed.
Democratic state Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally called on Riordan to step down, telling the San Jose Mercury News the child was a "little African-American girl."
But Dymally's sudden reversal prompted a reaction of disbelief from the girl's mother, the Sacramento Bee reported.
www.myspinzone.net /print.php?sid=370   (558 words)

  
 Life & Times Transcripts: 01/23/04
Mervyn Dymally>> We have to ask some very serious questions.
Mervyn Dymally>> There was a measure of peace before the riots
Mervyn Dymally>> It's conflict between the county and Drew and
www.kcet.org /lifeandtimes/archives/200401/20040123.php   (2976 words)

  
 DYMALLY, Mervyn Malcolm (1926-) Guide to Research Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The papers of Mervyn Malcolm Dymally document his service in the California State Assembly, California State Senate, and his tenure as Lieutenant Governor of California.
Steven Smith discusses his service as campaign manager for Mervyn Dymally in the 1973 lieutenant governor race.
Subjects include the transfer of the office to Mervyn Dymally.
bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=D000592   (214 words)

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