Apparently the NAACP practices the very thing it protests against. Can you imagine what the outcry would be if we said the same thing? These people should be ashamed of themselves, but they are all liberal Dems, so they don’t even see the hypocrisy, and nor will the clueless Sun point it out.
NAACP fears appointment of white or Republican mayor if Dixon is convicted
Leaders of the Maryland NAACP, worried that a Baltimore mayor’s criminal conviction could result in the appointment of a white or Republican leader who may not fully represent the majority black and Democratic city, are asking state lawmakers to strip the governor of authority to permanently fill the office.
The request, made in a resolution adopted at a state meeting of the civil rights group last weekend, marks the first time a mainstream organization has raised questions about succession should Baltimore Mayor Dixon be convicted of any of the nine charges she faces. Dixon has been indicted for theft and perjury and the first of two trials is scheduled for early next month.
“There is that possibility of a conviction, and we want to know those protocols that are in place,” said Elbridge James, the political action chairman of the state National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “If it looks like it is going to rain, I am going to buy an umbrella.”
Still, it is not clear that the resolution or a law change is warranted. According to Dan Friedman, an assistant attorney general who is counsel to the General Assembly, the governor does not have the authority to make an appointment.
Instead, the state constitution defers to the city’s charter, he said, which elevates the city council president to be mayor in case of a vacancy. That’s how Dixon became mayor in 2007 after Martin O’Malley, her predecessor, was elected governor.
Marvin L. Cheatham, the president of the Baltimore Chapter of the NAACP, introduced the resolution because he heard an attorney on a radio program discussing a lack of clarity on succession if Dixon were to be convicted and sentenced.
“Our concern is who would the governor appoint?” Cheatham said. “Here you have a predominantly African-American city. What if the governor appointed somebody white? … Would he appoint someone Irish to be the mayor?”
Cheatham also said he worried that a future Republican governor could appoint someone from his party to lead a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans 9 to 1. “Would not the Republican governor have the ability to pick a Republican mayor?” he asked. “We just think there are some unanswered questions about the process,” Cheatham said.
The resolution passed “nearly unanimously” with little debate from the 150 or so delegates who attended the meeting, James said. It lays out two options, asking either for the governor to defer to the city’s charter and elevate the city council president to mayor; or a revision to state law to prevent an emergency mayoral appointee by the governor to run for the office in the next election.
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Just another reason why myself and other African Americans of my generation simply ignore the NAACP.
The Daytona Beach Police Chief Chitwood is also under attack by this organization. Their name should change to GESTAPO!
Im sure that if the NAACP feels this way, they should have no problem with any black being pulled from a postion that covers a majority white population.
obama comes to mind.
Oh wait, would it be racist to ask that only whites be in charge of areas or locations that are majority white?
Racism of any other name, is still racism.
“Still, it is not clear that the resolution or a law change is warranted. According to Dan Friedman, an assistant attorney general who is counsel to the General Assembly, the governor does not have the authority to make an appointment.
Instead, the state constitution defers to the city’s charter, he said, which elevates the city council president to be mayor in case of a vacancy. That’s how Dixon became mayor in 2007 after Martin O’Malley, her predecessor, was elected governor.”
Heh. I think this falls under the category of “if all else fails, follow the directions”
I was a school board member for about 15 years. We had a problem with a superintendent. Nothing quite like a problem with a contract employee to get you reading the policy book. I got way more familiar with it than I wanted to be!
The NAACP calling anyone else racist is good for one big laugh, well maybe ten minutes of laying on the floor laughing. The NAACP is the most racist organization in the world. maybe second most racist following the congressional black caucus.
Maryland born, that is the funniest and the best.
Now, now. It’s a scientific fact that it’s genetically impossible for a human with black skin to be a racist. It’s just not in their DNA. Of course this is the same lab that has proven that the Easter Bunny really does lay eggs and they wrote a probility study on cloning Hitler’s brain from old preserved hunks of pumpernickle.
By the NAACP’s racial justice/twisted logic, no Blacks should be allowed to be President, since Blacks are only 12% of the population.