When will Kwesi Mfume endorse Ben Cardin for Senate (Maryland)?

[AX10]

[Sparkly]

1. I thought he did immediately, within his concession. No? nt

[AX10]

2. He didn't.

[Orangepeel]

3. Huh? He has.

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In a written statement issued by his campaign three days after the primary election, Mfume said he would support Cardin, the 10-term congressman, in the general election against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele. Mfume phoned Cardin at noon yesterday to congratulate him, according to a campaign spokesman.

"Ben and I gave this race our best," said Mfume, a former Baltimore congressman and chairman of the NAACP. "However there can only be one nominee from our party, and he is it. He's a great public servant, and I have absolutely no doubt that he is going to make a terrific United States Senator. He has my full support."

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Mfume had previously said he would wait for a final count before conceding. Steve Marinoff, an Mfume campaign spokesman, said Mfume felt compelled to speak after a spokesman for Steele said the lieutenant governor would not debate Cardin until he is certified as the party's nominee.

Steele "seemed to imply that we were being dissed or people were trying to force him to do something he didn't want to do," Marinoff said. "Nobody was trying to force Kweisi Mfume out of the race. He basically felt that what he said on election night was a provisional concession."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/elections/bal-md.senate16sep16,1,5187918.story

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Did you miss the election night teevee coverage? And the follow-up

coverage in the days immedaitely after the primary?

Mfume has endorsed Cardin.

[AX10]

7. I live in CT. So I could not see the local coverage on TV.

[AnnieBW]

5. Black Repugs Are Saying No

And they're calling on Mfume to endorse Steele instead of Cardin. (Yeah, right...) They're making a big deal out of the fact that most black Maryland Dems were at this big confab and endorsed Cardin, but Kweisi was conspicuously absent.

They're also running commercials that state that MLK Jr. was a Republican and the Democrats started the KKK. And making a big deal out of this low-level twit staffer of Cardin's who put up racist messages on her blog. Cardin fired her as soon as he found out about it.

Steele is playing the race card even worse than Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson combined. And it seems, from my perspective as a 40-something white woman, to be working.

[SaveElmer]

6. MLK was a Republican nominally I believe...

Until Richard Nixon turned his back on him, and the Kennedy's began to advocate on his behalf while he was in prison. Jackie Robinson was a Republican too until this time...

These commercials of course require historical ignorance by its audience, as it is very clear the Republican Party abandoned its roots as the champion of Civil Rights in order to secure the votes of southern racist Democrats in the 60's and 70's

[AnnieBW]

9. What They're Not Saying

Is that there was a massive switch in ideologies during the 60's. The Republicans up until then were the "Party of Lincoln", and blacks were overwhelmingly Republican. Up until Kennedy and Johnson decided to pay attention to MLK and ban segregation. The Republicans countered that with the "Southern Strategy", and all of the segregationists like Strom Thurmond changed from Democrats to Republicans, while the blacks did the opposite.

We don't need ads saying that Steele hates puppies. We need ads saying that Steele likes Bush and Rove.

[nickshepDEM]

8. He has twice.

We need a TV spot or something though.