Posted on 01/05/2005 2:41:03 PM PST by CHARLITE
Sharpton has denied having an affair, but black columnist Errol Louis of the New York Daily News notes that "both split from their spouses around the same time and traveled around the country together during Sharpton's presidential campaign. Louis was intrigued by the report that Harris "lives in a swanky Trump Place apartment and sports top-drawer toys like a Mercedes, a mink coat and a $7,000 Rolex."
Ironically, the Village Voice claimed that Sharpton revealed in 2001 that Rev. Jesse Jackson was involved in an extramarital affair and had an illegitimate child. Jackson was discredited, at least for a while, enabling Sharpton to emerge as a national black spokesman, with enormous access to the national media.
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To my knowledge, the only time he ever went to jail had to do with "trespassing" on Federal property at our firing range off of Puerto Rico. Hmph.
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