So, maybe you remember back in August when the Ken Hodges campaign crowed from the rooftops about its support from Ambassador Andrew Young?
Apparently it was not an endorsement after all. Said Young in the AJC “I took a picture with him. But the picture that I took with him really was at Joe Lowery’s retirement. It didn’t constitute a formal endorsement.”
Young said that Hodges came to him “to explain to me his difficulties” – resentment among African-Americans, some of whom blame him for the failure to prosecute a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black motorist in Columbus in 2003. ”
In fact, it was so much not an endorsement that he wrote the guy running against Hodges, Rob Teilhet, a check to help with his campaign.
For more on the Columbus Hodges Campiagn Kickoff and his problems with African-Americans in that area, check this link. It is from the newspaper down in Columbus.
Don’t worry Ken, African-Americans aren’t a sizable percentage of the electorate in the primary.
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