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Racist phone calls mocking Florida s black Democratic gubernatorial nominee appear to be from a white supremacist podcast that has also taken credit for inflammatory robocalls in Iowa and California. In the recorded calls, someone falsely identifying himself as Andrew Gillum speaks in a racist, old-time minstrel dialect while asking voters for their support.The calls, which according to the Gillum campaign started Friday, are said to be paid for by The Road to Power -- an Idaho-based video podcast. This is reprehensible -- and could only have come from someone with intentions to fuel hatred and seek publicity, Gillum campaign spokesman Geoff Burgan said in a statement. Burgan said it s uncl
stanley website ear how widespread the calls have been, but that he s only heard reports of them in Tallahassee, where Gillum is mayor. Gillum s Republican opponent, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, is not affiliated with the podcast behind the calls. His campaign spokesman, Stephen Lawson, called them absolutely appalling and disgusting. And hopefully whoever is behind this has to answer for this despicable action, Lawson said in a statement. Andrew Gillum, the Democratic candidate for Florida Governor, gre
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ACTION JACKSON....When we last left him, HUD Secretary Alphonse Jackson was gleefully telling an audience that he had scuttled an advertising contract after the winning bidder told him he didn t like
gourde stanley George Bush much. He didn t get the contract, Jackson said. Why should I reward someone who doesn t like the president, so they can use funds to try to campaign against the president Logic says they don t get the contract. That s the way I believe. Later Jackson said he had just been kidding, and HUD s inspector general let him off the hook even though three HUD staffers remembered him saying something similar at a staff meeting. Now, though, it appears that Jackson may have been doing more than merely keeping contracts away from people who didn t support the Bush administration. Apparently he was also steering business to his friends:Behind the scenes, Jackson has helped to arrange lucrative contract work running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars for friends and associates who went to work at HUD-controlled housing authorities in New Orleans and the Virgin Isl
stanley sverige ands, according to people familiar with his actions. Indeed, one of Jackson s good friends, Atlanta lawyer Michael Hollis, appears to have been paid approximately $1 million for managing the troubled Virgin Islands Housing Authority. ....[Another friend,] William Hairston, a stucco contractor from Hilton Head Island, S.C.
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