Word: sharptons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such a degrading fantasy, herself as garbage. But the unambiguous casualty was a white assistant prosecutor from Dutchess County named Steven Pagones. Tawana's was not a harmless lie. Once the story went public, it attracted three professional race men named C. Vernon Mason, Alton Maddox and Al Sharpton, lawyers who arrived to work as Tawana's handlers and to demagogue the case in the media. The three identified Pagones as one of the white rapists. Pagones has spent 10 years trying to clear his name...
...among Jews and 11% among white Catholics. She is losing the Hispanic vote. She has been deserted by the city's largest gay political organization, its biggest unions and all its major newspapers. Al Gore wouldn't campaign with her. She alienated Jews by embracing Al Sharpton, yet still lost the endorsement of two of New York's four black Congressmen. An aide to a longtime Democratic officeholder calls her campaign "a catastrophe." The 1997 race for mayor is to New York what the 1984 race for President was to the country at large. And Messinger is Walter Mondale...
...three papers, in their Friday editions, cite the couple's lovey-dovey behavior at Wednesday's second anniversary bash in Manhattan for Kennedy's George magazine, which also brought out Ellen DeGeneres, Anne Heche, George Stephanopoulos, the estranged Trumps, Donald and Marla and the Rev. Al Sharpton, among others...
...politics are similarly emblematic of the city--Al Sharpton, a man known more for greasy hair and groundless rhetoric than any kind of singular vision, almost captured the Democratic mayoral nomination straight out of the Harlem Renaissance. And Alfonse D'Amato, the Republican senator who seems so contrary to our liberal values in many respects, is our favorite son because he's so New York-centric; a belief that the Big Apple is the be-all and end-all heals all partisan wounds...
Regardless of the fact that the Mayor explicitly condemned the action and launched a full investigation into it, his opponents succeeded in portraying the Louima case as evidence of a dark, unseemly element in Giuliani's New York. Al Sharpton and Messinger, then the Mayor's two principle Democratic opponents, attacked Giuliani for his anti-crime zeal, framing the issue of "law and order" as a battle between crime prevention and the safety of the underprivileged--a battle in which the Mayor was on the wrong side. According to them, the fact of the Louima case somehow counterbalanced...