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...Democrats defected to the winning team. One of them, State Rep. Dwight Stansel, said his district's constituents, who went for Bush, were his conscience on this one. "If you don't listen to them, you'll be home," he said. "And somebody else will be listening to them." The other, Rep. Will Kendrick, said he voted with the Republicans to "do the right thing for the people we represent...
Chavis' troubles began in June when Mary Stansel, 49, his former administrative assistant, sued him and the N.A.A.C.P. for sexual discrimination and harassment. The board was furious over a $332,400 settlement offered to Stansel without its knowledge. (A similar charge against Chavis by his wife's former secretary was defused amicably last week.) Many board members had previously complained of Chavis' management style and, more significantly, his public embrace of the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan...
...Mary Stansel worked for only a month as assistant to the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But her severance agreement last November was generous: two lump sums totaling $50,000, six monthly payments averaging about $5,400 each and, if N.A.A.C.P. executive director Benjamin Chavis did not find her a job paying at least $80,000 a year, an additional $250,000. The out-of-court settlement between Chavis and Stansel had remained private and indeed virtually secret until Stansel decided to introduce it into court. Chavis, she said, had not found...
...some members of the N.A.A.C.P. board, however, the truly shocking revelation was that Chavis had agreed to pay Stansel not out of his own money but from the venerable civil rights association's precarious finances. "The board knew nothing about the settlement," said member Anthony Fugett after he heard news last week that the N.A.A.C.P. was being sued along with Chavis. "I'm on the budget committee, and this settlement was never in the budget," said Joseph Madison, a Washington radio talk-show host. "It never showed up on our expense statements." Madison had previously raised concerns about Chavis' financial...
Chavis' lawyer denied Stansel's charges. Furthermore, he said, Chavis had simply been exercising his executive authority in a personnel matter, and "the board is not involved in individual personnel matters." But that did not stop several members of the 64-person board from calling for Chavis to step down. Said Leroy Warren Jr., "The thing for Chavis to do that would be truly dignified would be to give his resignation...
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