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Criminal State Senator Drunk With Power
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"For black voters, elation, dismay; High hopes offset by Wilkerson plight" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | November 1, 2008
The parallel moments produced an unusual swirl of emotions among black voters in Wilkerson's Roxbury district. While many celebrated Obama's potentially history-making surge on a national political stage far from the city, they were also confronting the downfall of a black politician much closer to home, a woman many know not only as a senator, but as a neighbor and friend.
"It's really hurting the community - not that we believe she's perfect - but it is a sad loss for our community to lose someone like that," said 61-year-old Allan Edwards, the owner of Allan's Formalwear, a tuxedo shop on Blue Hill Avenue. "She has helped a lot of people. She's a very close, down-to-earth person. We all know her personally, when she walks up and down the street."
Many rushed to her defense, saying she had been unfairly targeted because she is black and was standing up for the black community. Many said she has been prematurely condemned.
Using the race card when it is not warranted does not help the arguments!
"I just want to know: Has Senator Dianne Wilkerson had a trial, and have they found her guilty?" said the Rev. Betty Collier, pastor of The Way Free Gospel Ministry in Roxbury who berated the media outside the Charles Street AME Church yesterday. "It's as if everybody has found her guilty without even a trial, and doesn't the law state that a person is innocent until they are proven guilty by a court of law - not people?"
Is there no shame in that community?
"She could've been the congressperson, the mayor; she could have been the governor," said Wilkerson's campaign manager Boyce Slayman, moments after Wilkerson announced the end of her campaign from the pulpit of the Charles Street Church. "She's got that much talent and skill - if not for the human frailties, the human frailties. I know the community already feels her loss."
Excuses, excuses!! And notice it is ALWAYS ABOUT HER!!!?
Around Roxbury, many voters agreed. They said Wilkerson's plight added a painful coda to an election that could see Obama make history. Several voters said Wilkerson's arrest seemed politically motivated, coming just days before the election.
Umm, yeah, as for the timing: "On Oct. 2, she accepted a $10,000 cash payment from the agents posing as developers, saying she needed the funds for her reelection effort, the FBI said"
What were they supposed to do, fund her campaign for her? Then we would never be rid of the lying looter!!!
"If it was long before the election it would have been all right, but really not at this time," Edwards said. "It just shows that they were out for her. For me, it's a sense of sadness. Whether she would have won or not, it would have been good if she just kept her name on the ballot."
"She's human; people make mistakes," said Reggie Barnes, 24. Barnes said he had been listening that morning to TOUCH 106.1 FM, a small radio station in Dorchester that bills itself as the fabric of the black community. The deejays, he said, had been extolling Wilkerson as a champion of the community.
"She deserves another chance," he said. "She's done a lot for the community." --more--"
Yeah, well, you don't guy!!
I'm really starting to believe that shit-chewing Amurkns get the shit government they deserve!!
