"Several supporters asked whether they could still vote for her. "She said: 'This is America, and it's a democracy. You can vote for anybody you want.' Asked by a supporter what would happen should she prevail in her sticker campaign, Wilkerson said she would have a decision to make.... Many voters in her district had already received stickers in the mail for her reelection effort"
Which Wilkerson's flunkies are assiduously affixing to ballots to stuff the ballot box!!!! Why do I smell ELECTION FRAUD and a STOLEN SEAT, readers? How many WRITE-INS ever win? If so, I'm WRITING in RON PAUL for PRESIDENT tomorrow!!!
Please, just GO AWAY, senator!
"Wilkerson tells supporters to push for Obama" by John C. Drake, Globe Staff | November 3, 2008
Disgraced state Senator Dianne Wilkerson told nearly 100 supporters yesterday to "keep fighting" for the needs of the sprawling Boston district even as she halts her effort to win reelection in the face of federal bribery charges.
Not really. Why the paper gotta lie?
Wilkerson slipped in through a rear entrance of her campaign headquarters on Tremont Street in Roxbury for what one participant described as a farewell gathering with diehard supporters.
See: Massachusetts Voters Are Fools
Hypocritical Mass. Voters Endorse Bribery
"There was praying and a little singing and more than a little sadness," Boyce Slayman, Wilkerson's campaign manager, said in an interview after the three-hour event. He said several supporters asked whether they could still vote for her.
"She said: 'This is America, and it's a democracy. You can vote for anybody you want,' " Slayman said. Asked by a supporter what would happen should she prevail in her sticker campaign, Wilkerson said she would have a decision to make, Slayman added. Many voters in her district had already received stickers in the mail for her reelection effort before she called off her campaign last week.
"She didn't suggest that she would take the seat or not," he said.
After her arrest on bribery charges last week, Wilkerson had vowed to stay in the race. She reversed course Friday under pressure from prominent black ministers and agreed to end her sticker campaign. But she did not step down from her Senate seat, despite a unanimous call for her resignation from angry Senate colleagues. But her decision to halt her sticker campaign means a 15-year Senate career in which she commanded enduring support in Roxbury and Lower Dorchester - despite a series of ethical and legal transgressions - will most likely end with tomorrow's election.
It SURE DIDN'T SOUND like she "halted" anything to me!!!! Why LIE, paper?
She had narrowly lost the Democratic primary in September to former Jamaica Plain schoolteacher Sonia Chang-Diaz but was in the midst of her sticker campaign for the general election when news of her arrest rocked the state's political establishment, and a stream of subpoenas rained down on some of her key associates at City Hall and the State House.
That's RED for RED-FLAG if the FIRST HISPANIC state senator DOES NOT WIN!!!
Photos that US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan said show her accepting cash bribes have left an indelible stain on her political career. But Slayman said that Wilkerson did not discuss the charges yesterday. In a statement last week, Wilkerson said there was more to the story that she could not yet discuss.
A supporter outside yesterday's event, Shakir Shabazz, 46, of Dorchester, said he was "very upset" with the black ministers who pressured her to give up her campaign and urged her to resign even though her case had not worked its way through the courts. "The whole city turned against her," Shabazz said.
Then you deserve to be ripped off and lied to, voter!!
Slayman said Wilkerson's remarks at yesterday's event, where supporters dined on Haitian and Spanish rice, fried plantains, and lasagna, were not about her political future.
Meanwhile, Demand growing for food assistance as holidays near
See what I'm talking about? WHO paid for HER LUNCHEON? Is that where the BRIBES come in? See: More Questions For Criminal State Senator
"She said it wasn't all about her," Slayman said. "It was about the community. It was all about thanking them and reminding them a historic day lies ahead."
Not only is she a liar and a cheat, she is in denial!!! It has been ALL ABOUT HER!!!
Chang-Diaz held a press conference in front of the State House Friday in which she thanked Wilkerson for acting with the best interests of the community at heart and said her door would be open to Wilkerson's supporters.
Translation: Chang-Diaz has CLASS and intends to REPRESENT ALL, NOT just HERSELF!!!!
But Archie Holmes, of Roxbury, another supporter at yesterday's farewell, said he worried that the district's presumptive new senator would not be as effective as Wilkerson because she is a newcomer. "This new freshman senator's not going to get anything done," said Holmes, 78. "We're in pretty bad shape." --more--"
Go eat shit, Arch!
She is at least CLEANER then DIRTY DIANNE!!!!
