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Nigga, PLEASE
Boxing promoter Don King stumps for Bush
By Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press Writer | June 2, 2004
PHILADELPHIA --Don King, the wild-haired boxing promoter, is touring the country with Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie to tout President Bush's re-election.
…King's rap sheet makes him an odd choice for Bush front man. He was convicted in the 1967 beating death of a man who owed him money and spent nearly four years in prison. In 1954, he killed a man who was robbing a numbers house he operated in Cleveland, but it was ruled self-defense.
King also has beaten tax evasion and fraud charges, faced numerous lawsuits from boxers and their handlers and endured three grand jury investigations and an FBI sting operation -- all while cementing his status as one of the world's top boxing promoters.
Republicans see King as a way to reach the ever-elusive black vote.
They would.
The really sad thing here is, one of the few Black Republicans I have some respect for is doing local level work, and the Bushistas go get someone who is his diametric opposite.
Which leaves him with only one choice:
(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
