Over these weeks, we took measures to make sure we could not be mistaken. We waited until we had court records in hand from Iowa, Illinois and Idaho. We cross checked Social Security numbers and dates of birth. We made lists of facts we knew and the records from which we knew them, to check again.We finished on Thursday, and we were sure. We had to decide when to publish our story, when we would call NAACP board members, the senators and the governor.We intended to wait until next week, to avoid hurting people on the Martin Luther King holiday.
It's interesting that the paper admits to wanting to hold off on publishing the story, as as not to hurt people over the MLK holiday (what???).
The NAACP apparently doesn't do a background check on people who are voted into these positions of authority. I'm not sure if it is a paid position, or not. It certainly is a position in which the person holding it, has a lot of influence and can probably benefit financially by making important contacts.
It's almost certainly a position where the leader can write checks against his NAACP treasury for personal purposes, and no questions asked.
As Jesse Jackson has demonstrated, a politically correct anointed black leader can indulge himself in almost any level of corruption and get away with it, because no prosecutor has the guts to take him on and bring him before a Grand Jury.
Maybe in this case things will turn out differently, since he already has a criminal record and the press has taken the lead in unveiling it.