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...after his upset of Clinton in the Connecticut primary on March 24. But he alienated Jews, almost a third of New York's Democratic vote, when he flirted with Jesse Jackson as his choice for Vice President. His association with Jackson, who had referred to New York City as "Hymietown" during his presidential bid in 1984, did not produce a commensurate jump in support among black voters. Brown's fuzzy plan for a 13% flat tax bothered almost everyone. A bad week got worse when unnamed former security guards claimed on an abc newscast that there had been rampant marijuana...
...offer Jackson has coyly avoided accepting thus far). Brown felt the heat when he addressed the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York two days after Clinton had received a warm reception from the group. The mere mention of Jackson, who offended Jews by referring to New York as "Hymietown" in 1984, triggered boos, hisses and outbursts from the audience. "This is good," observed Brown, who craves conflict as much as Clinton avoids it. But he had no comeback when a member of the audience stood up and told him, "We are certainly not opposed to a black Vice President...
That Jackson falsely claims he cradled Martin Luther King Jr. in his arms immediately after the civil rights leader was slain should give one pause. That he has never honestly explained or apologized for his anti-Jewish quip about New York City as "Hymietown," or that he failed to unequivocally denounce or distance himself from the vicious preachings of that Fruit of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, should give one a sense of extreme anxiety. As Henry Adams noted in his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, it used to be in this country that we held it as a matter...
Does anyone realy think that a Black person voted for former white supremist David Duke in Louisianna? I wouldn't support Duke because he's racist, nor would I ever support Jackson because of his "hymietown" comment...
...Jackson, as he proved in 1984 after the hymietown incident, has sufficiently strong backing from a sufficiently large group of voters to withstand the occasional damaging story. Brinkley noted that the phenomenon of the constituent-less candidate was a relatively new and not particularly encouraging one. Jackson is throwback to an earlier political landscape, when candidates ran because people wanted them to, not just because they thought they should be president...