Posted on 04/29/2005 9:49:59 AM PDT by Pikamax
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by Thomas Dennison Staff Writer
Apr. 29, 2005
ANNAPOLIS -- Six weeks into Kweisi Mfume's campaign for the U.S. Senate, Democrats here and nationally believe the former congressman from Baltimore is being shoved aside or written off by powerful forces within the state party.
Many Maryland Democrats -- black and white -- are shying away from Mfume's candidacy and privately criticizing his campaign for not being well-organized.
Critics say his troubled childhood as a street hustler in Baltimore, followed by controversial new allegations about his tenure as the president of the national NAACP, will make him a liability in a statewide campaign.
On Thursday, The Washington Post reported that a confidential NAACP report detailed allegations that Mfume gave raises and promotions to women with whom he had close personal relationships while he was president of the civil rights organization.
Mfume's supporters noted the story broke one day after U.S. Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin of Baltimore announced his candidacy for the Senate. They said the timing is indicative of the efforts to sink Mfume's campaign.
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Someone stuck a knife in Frizzle's back, and I think the finger prints lead back to Hillary or the DNC.
They are full of sh*t! The reason he is given the cold shoulder is because he DARED to suggest a more moderate approach to dealing with the President and the Republicans.
If your are a Democrat and Black, you better be a "House Black."
Hillary? I think it has more to do with Julian Bond. JB has a MUCH bigger axe to grind.
This is good. Split the dims. Blood bath in the primaries. Mfume vs Cardin. Dims long-knives will clear the way for Cardin. Low dim turnout in the general elections will pave the way for Erlich (?) or who ever is the Republican candidate. Roll the titles.
Whenever Rush Limbaugh mention's Kweisi Mfume by name, he always includes a comment along these lines: "In a statement yesterday, Kweisi Mfume (no relation to South African president Thabo Mbeki, folks) said . . . etc., etc.)" LOL.
BTW wazza Frizzle?
Exactamundo.
Cardin is Jewish..and if Kwaisi's supporters spin this as "jewish conspiracy" thing..it's gonna get very ugly in MD Dem, circles. Black anti-semitism in the inner cities is not far beneath the surface..
Poor Pee Wee is having a very Gray day.
Frizzell Gray. His real name.
Frizzell "Pee Wee" Gray is Mfume real name.
For a Democrat? I thought those things would be career enhancers!
This is a joke, right? Since when has being a law violator, drug abuser, or a white hater ever stopped a black from being elected by blacks?
Noooo! Really????
"At the end of the day, if there are no deliverables, African Americans will look elsewhere,"
I hope that elsewhere is Michael Steele, MD's 1st black
Lt. Governor and a republican. That would Maryland democrats a bad case of diaper rash. 1st a republican governor (Erlich) in 2002, then a Republican Senator in 2006. If Steele chooses to run for Senator, he will get national backing/funding from the republican party.
Woh! I thought my real handle was bad.
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