Posted on 04/27/2005 8:05:23 PM PDT by jdm
Allegations detailed in a confidential NAACP report claim that Kweisi Mfume gave raises and promotions to women with whom he had close personal relationships while he was president of the nation's oldest civil rights organization.
The 22-page memorandum, prepared last summer by an outside lawyer, did not accept as true the claims lodged against Mfume by a female employee but determined that they could be "very difficult to defend persuasively" if she filed a lawsuit.
Mfume, 56, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, has denied the allegations. In an interview yesterday, he said the allegations in no way influenced his Nov. 30 announcement that he would leave the NAACP after nine years.
"I don't engage in inappropriate behavior," he said in the interview. "And if I did, I'm sure after nine years there, 10 years in the Congress and seven years on the [Baltimore] City Council, it would have been an issue long before your telephone call to me."
Disclosure of the report could prove sensitive for Mfume, who has ascended the political ranks in part on the basis of his compelling personal narrative. He overcame teenage years spent running in street gangs to become a five-term congressman and head the prominent civil rights organization.
The matter also could be delicate for the NAACP. Mfume took over the group from interim head Earl T. Shinhoster in 1996 when it was still reeling from the turbulent 16-month tenure of Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. Chavis was removed in 1994 after he agreed to secretly pay $332,400 in NAACP funds to settle claims of sexual discrimination by a female aide.
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(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Shades of Benjamin Chavis!!
Now who would want to take out Mfume by leaking this from the NAACP? Amazing after Mfume tried to reach out to the GOP, he not only got kicked out of the NAACP, this report comes out.
Does a bear....oh, nevermind.
Why am I not suprised.....
NAACP=KKK=Racist orginzations
I'm deeply saddened :(
Will we be hearing about Queasy's "love children?"
He has 9 kids from about 5 different women I believe.
I'm mfuming about these allegations (not).
I'm sorry Miss Jackson... I am for real... Never meant to make your daughter cry...I apologised a trillion times...
Queezy LOVES this kind of news! It gives him perfect street cred to qualify as a dem Senator. It gives him status to demostrate he has about the same level of integrity as the average dem member of Congress, not quite Alcee Hastings, but right down there! Fortunately, the black, labor and dem voters of Maryland are not concerned with integrity!
Mmust mbe msome mmistake!
How many children did Mfume have out of wedlock? I guess morality is in the eyes of the beholder.
"I did not have sex with that woman" and the meaning of is , is.
How about all those kids by those different mommies?
Or, the democrats are setting up Chris van Hollen as the likely victor in the primary.
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