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Posted by GET NJ on April 18, 2003 at 19:42:55:
Civil rights leader lashes out at Menendez Bergen Record By ANDREW GLAZER A black civil rights leader on Thursday accused Rep. Robert Menendez of illegally raising money for local Democrats - part of the continuing fallout from Governor McGreevey's appointment of a black judge to the Supreme Court. The Rev. Edward Allen said he filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission to protest Menendez's criticism of the court appointment. In an unusually public intraparty dispute, Menendez has attacked McGreevey for passing over a Hispanic woman for the post. Allen, a Newark pastor and national board member of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, described Menendez's push for more Hispanics in Trenton as "race-baiting." "Mr. Menendez believes he should use power of his to dislodge African-Americans from posts and positions of power they earned through service to the state," Allen said. . . . For the rest of the article, please see the Link.
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