Chicago Politics? Mayoral Candidate Calls Opponent a Crack Addict
- Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:10am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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When former U.S. Senator and current Chicago mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun felt attacked by opponent Patricia Van-Pelt Watkins at a recent candidate forum, she struck back. But her retort of choice wasn’t a logical, reasoned argument. Instead, she called Van-Pelt Watkins a crack cocaine addict. And now, she’s feeling the backlash:
From My Fox Chicago:
Braun and fellow candidate Patricia Van-Pelt Watkins were in a heated discussion about which candidate was more in touch with the community when Braun went on the attack.
The former U.S. senator accused Watkins of being “strung out on crack” for the years Braun was in office.
“Patricia, the reason you didn’t know where I was the last 20 years is because you were strung out on crack,” Braun said from the altar of Trinity United Church of Christ at 95th and Egglesworth.
“I was not strung out on crack. I don’t have a record,” Braun said. “I in fact have spent years of my life working and fighting for this community as the only black United States senator from 1992 to 1998, as the only ambassador. So I don’t want to hear it from you, sweetie.”
Braun was set off when Watkins questioned which of the two had more experience working on the streets of Chicago.
WLS:
While Watkins admits she was a drug addict at 19, she says she was never addicted to crack.
“She could be sued for slander,” Watkins said.
Even with the threat of a lawsuit, Moseley Braun is not apologizing for her remarks.
“When someone slaps you like that then you have to tell the truth and that is what I did,” Moseley Braun said.
Both candidates trail front runner Rahm Emanuel, who did not attend the forum. Emanuel reportedly doesn’t attend many forums these days, as he says he likes to meet with Chicago residents where they live and work.
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Comments (141)
Honest Abe
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:10amI live outside Chicago and if I put my ear to the ground I can hear poor Mr. Lincoln rolling around in his concrete grave. Oh the shame for Illinois. I must apologize to the nation for the embarrassment we have become.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:18am@Honest Abe
No need to apologize for your state or city; it is the candidates who corrupt the system that need to apologize and be dealt with in accordance to the statutes for corruption and other crimes if found of guilt in a true court of law.
Report Post »DUMBASPELOSI
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:20amHonest Abe . .. take it easy on yourself. Illinois is full of very nice people – who behave like fools.
However – with the help of “humanistic philosophy”, “progressive parenting”, “2nd chance criminal justice”, “class-warfare”, “race pimps” and “public schools” . . . we’re all jacked up to some extent.
Thankfully, the real values and traditions of America have been given a platform in the Tea Party.
Expect the left to trash the Tea Party for everything it can – and to try and smear any one who is a leader within the movement.
Be ready to defend Palin, Bachmann, Beck, DeMint, Coulter and Malkin.
Hey – guess what – most of our new leaders are Women!
That’s really got to fry the libs – Palin vs Pelosi (this would be a walk over) and Coulter vs Clinton (beauty vs beast) match ups make the left look “fat, ugly and dumb”.
This may be the first time in my life where “Don‘t judge a book by it’s cover.” may be wrong.
Report Post »seadude
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:06amThis is so funny. 30 years ago neither of this idiots would ever have a chance to run for mayor anywhere on this planet. Once again it shows that the worst cities in this country are run by the most assinie people. Oh and lets not forget they are both *****’s, and just plain idiots acting like idiots. Go Chicago, or Detroit, or Washington DC. etc, etc, etc.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 1:54pmYes Seadude – 30 years ago it would have been all white hair, white men running!! Is this what you were trying to say? http://wp.me/pYLB7-yl
Report Post »BEST
Posted on February 6, 2011 at 2:45pmI agree totaly! The REAL FACTS VAN-PELT WATKING STARTED THE FIGHT ATTACKING CAROL for being Missing in Action. Then Van-Pelt Watkins screams slander cause she never did Crack (where did this woman get her PHD? Crack and Cocain are the same substance just different forms.
Report Post »Van-Pelt Watkins is gonna sue for slander? Why she sniffed it and didn’t smoke it. She confessed to Cocain use. Van-Pelt then says she is about Redemption of people they deserve a second chance and then after Braun apologizes she says “Braun needs to step down” OMG WATKINS IS A HYPOCRITE. I hear Watkins demanded an apology too. And this woman wants in politics?
Watkins is a Reverend at Ambassadors for Christ Church, Wow! Yea Revrend Van-Pelt Watkins we all know the gospel where Christ demanded his accusers to APPOLOGIZE, good grief what bible did you read, I thought Christ was the Christian Example of how to act. VAN-PELT WATKINS no wonder why you have only had 1% support in the polls. Obviously that 1% is whoever you smoked with back in the day, or whoever is ignorant enough to sit in your pew. DR. Van-Pelt Watkins leader of the Blind, cause if people can’t see this was your last attempt to get in the media, and you had to do it by attacking your own. WHAT A LOOSER.
Bullcop34
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:00amNotice that Braun had to pull her own chain about being a black US Senator. Why does she have to be a black representative? Does she only represent black folk? Do we have a white representative that represents only white? Screw the damn entitlement mentality of the damn blacks getting in a position of power. You represent the people not your race! Stop suckling on the teet of racism, you look like a gigantic WHORE!
Report Post »spirited
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:50amWhy –oh why– did Danny Davis step aside for Carol Mosley Braun???
To split the vote between Braun and Chico;
>How else can Rahm-Obama get elected Mayor?
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:55am*
Report Post »Watkins admits she was a drug ‘addict’ at 19, she says she was ‘never addicted to crack’ -< Say What?
Carl1
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:42amMore fine people wanting to serve in government. Sad
Report Post »Dave In Arizona
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:37amIt’s “racist” not “crack addict”. Won’t these people ever learn!?
Report Post »floridasurfer
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:03amAll politicians should have to pass a drug test b/4 assuming office!!! Most jobs today require this.
Report Post »cykonas
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:30amWhat! You expect politicians to live by some of the same laws they pass for the rest of us? Maybe you need drug testing………. just kidding.
Report Post »Hefsmaster
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:40amEnjoy… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:02amThe news anchor is saying people were surprised this happened in church
This even was in Trinity United Church of Christ , Obama’s old church of hate and racism., they should have expected outlandish statements.
Report Post »highcarry
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 11:10amand the guy said “there’s no room in chicago politics for this “. must be a different chicago.
Report Post »floridasurfer
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:00amAll politicians should have to pass a drug test b/4 they can assume office. I wonder how many would pass?
Report Post »Tomfang
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:42amAn ex-senator, an ex-white house official and an ex-drugie. I’ll take the drugie. There’s a better chance that she is rehabilitated.
Report Post »Shane the Golden
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:07amAmen to that, she is the only one that could have been rehabilitated!!! The others were lost causes . . .
Report Post »mendolover
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:40amYou know Emanuel is too smart to let that debate stink up his campaign.
Report Post »Hefsmaster
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:34amHis campaign already stinks!
Report Post »cliftonb
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:40amI’m surprised that a good old I-Hop melee didn’t break out! Great role models and effective leaders we now have in this country eh?
Report Post »QuietRiot
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:40amscrew eat your own , eat yourself…. Dems have lost it…
Report Post »American Dad
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:38amProgressives can win on facts or policies so they must attack the person. This is same scenario against Palin, Bachmann or even Beck.
Report Post »DUMBASPELOSI
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:09amYou point is supported by the behavior of Chris “Tingle” Matthews, Keith “bye bye” Olbermann and Ed “Too Small” Schultz.
You ever see any stories on NBC, ABC or CBS about the hateful rhetroic coming from these lefties?
Report Post »I don’t – wonder why?
KEA
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:38amI live in Illinois and a 100% turn out would not change anything. Al Gore got more votes than there were registered voters and nobody cared. Voting machines are rigged and if for some strange reason their desired outcome fails they have thousands of ballats ready to add to the mix to fix the election.
Wake up America! No one can dispute Chicago is the most corrupt city in the world and its poisen is infecting the rest of the country!
Report Post »DUMBASPELOSI
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:30amNo problem – she‘s a liberal and she’s black.
Accusing a black of “using crack” would be cast as a racial slur if a white, asian, hispanic or indian had done it.
What’s with having a Mayorial Debate without MEDIA!!!! That’s o.k. too – it’s a Democrat function. Had the Republicans, Libertarian, Conservative, Christian parties done this – it would have been a huge scandal.
Chicago . . .has lost it’s way. Look at the types that succeed there . . .
Blagovich, Obama, Emmanuel, Mosley-Braun and Durbin!!!!! The City is in debt, the State is in debt and the political integrity of the state is bankrupt. They don’t call it “The Windy City” for nothing.
I used to travel there to watch the Cardinals play the Cubs – haven’t done that in years. Don’t miss the town.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:56amLet us not forget Oprah.
Report Post »DianeCee
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:28amOur nation has been infected by affirmative action trolls. Neither one of these “women” should be running for any office. Collectively, I would think the IQ would be quite low. Rahm may be the only choice for the poor souls in Chicago. I suppose he will supply the crack.
Report Post »BQI
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:28amWhat QUALITY candidates. No wonder Chicago and Illinois is in the mess they are in. Pathetic:!!
Black conservative blog: New article: “The Kill Button.” Tomorrow’s article: “2012”
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ares338
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:27amChicago is a suburb of the Nation of Obama. The outcome is inevitable.
Report Post »BruceB
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:26amCarol was misquoted on what she said and it was also taken out of context.
Report Post »DUMBASPELOSI
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:32amThe “context” . . . in a “media free” public meeting, she was standing and facing Watkins . .. and after picking up the microphone – intentially brought drug addictiong into the debate. “Context?”
Report Post »Shane the Golden
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:04amDon’t you think BRUCEB was tongue in cheek when he said that?
Report Post »DUMBASPELOSI
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:05amOpps. My bad.
Report Post »KEA
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:22amRahm doesnt attend becuase he already knows the outcome! All the rest of this is just circus act!
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:27amKEA
Exactly….He was already given the position before he left the White House.
Report Post »beebacksoon
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:31amKEA
Report Post »He doesn‘t attend because he can’t handle the hard questions We The People would ask. He says he likes to meet the voters where they live and work…yeah right., Rahm. You know the outcome of the elections, but feel you have to act like you’re really interested in the voters with lip service. Chicago: GET OUT AND VOTE. YOU NEED 100% TURNOUT! You just might be able to turn his plan upside down!
Bluebonnet
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:03amPaid for, Sealed, Now get it delivered! This is Chicago corrupt politics. Why would we outsiders expect anything else. You don’t think he left the WH thinking he would lose the race? Did you?
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:44amBeebacksoon: he doesn’t attend because he could care less about what you think. After all the dead people have spoken up, he will be mayor.
Report Post »saneasylum
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 4:30pmRahm makes Al Capone look like a Piker ! Get it? Got-it!!!
Report Post »blanco
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:19amI thought that was part of the criteria!!!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:19amYep, I bet he does. That way he can slip them the bribe while no one is looking or pass a note to their union boss’ letting them know what a great future they will have, if only they…..
Report Post »As for these two women? Don’t think I would want either one representing me unless one of them can beat Rahm – that would be the lesser of the three evils.
Untameable-kate
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:06amGood grief, are there and decent people in Chicago politics at all?
Report Post »Rhetorical question, no one need answer.
LSX
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:17amWhy not a crack head in the mayor’s office?
We have a coke user in the White House.
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Report Post »DUMBASPELOSI
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:34amWhere was Rahm?
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:55amRahm was relaxing and watcing the cat fight.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:51amHey guys, lay off. This is typical Chicago corruption. Why do you expect better? Btw, does the guy in the WH do Coke for sure? I heard it mentioned a number of times. Kinda like everything we learn about Obama, that after a while you begin to believe all the things we thought were unbelievable. Are they true?
Report Post »chuck
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:19pmBlue, read his own books, you will see it in his own words, also that he is a marxist…how special ya?
Report Post »MsMonsoon
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 1:21pmYou’re a racist!
No, you’re a racist!
No, you’re a racist!
Wait a minute, we’re both black!!!
I’m the lowest common denominator!
No, I’m the lowest common denominator!
No, I’m the lowest common denominator!
…I’m disgusted!!!
Report Post »saneasylum
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:15amWelcome to Chicago style politics. Same stuff ,different millenium!!!
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:24amSo, which once does have the most experience “working the streets of Chicago”. That does have a certain resonance, especially if you had been in law enforcement.
Report Post »I think they just confirmed what we cattle have always known.
Think about it.
GeauxAlready
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:25amI think it takes one to know one……………..
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:27amThis is Chicago….this is not news. Rome is burning and the media is worried about name calling in Chicago. Get Ready…..
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:28amLet me repeat: they are L A W Y E R S! Our country was once run by real people: farmers, writers, business people, etc. Now our country is run by L A W Y E R S!!! Why do you think there’s a permanent oil slick on the Potomac?
Report Post »pscully17
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:35amobamas downfall will be energy.. ” under my policies, energy prices will necessarily skyrocket”– so far he’s on target for that.. last week, the EPA pulewd an already approved permit out from under the Coal Mine in WV.. it was approved by bushs epa in 2007. now the epa, sierra club, and the dems ar also blocking the pipeline from Canada to texas, also they are suing texas to block natural gas drilling, and have declared dallas a pollution zone based on CO2 readings…
Report Post »Oil is at 88 Bucks a barrell and gasoline $ 3.20+ a gallon. why? we are at a very low demand period.. Indysutry is shrinking, its winter when nobody is driving, airlines have cut way back and trucking has dropped.. wehn GAs hit $2.50 during a high demand fopr oil period in 2007, in the summer months, the media and libs and Hillary wanted to Crucify Bush!!! Now? wheres the OUTRAGE!!! we are on the brink of a very serios energy crisis!! come summer, when gas is $5+ a gallon, and rolling blackouts are common, you WILLSEEPEOPLE In the streets!!
Jsut go to the4 Huffingpost, read the WHY WE ARENT RIOTING article.. its being orhcestrated now.. but for the wrong reasons!! Thje left is villifying the Businesses that employ us, The right will be protesting the out of control Government and debt!! we ALL will be in the streets but for very different reason.. ALL Orchestrated by– The Progressives!!
MAULEMALL
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:55amMore ghetto trash,,
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:59amThe way these 2 women went after each other, I’d say it was racist moment. Who are they being racist against? Is it the content or the color?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:17amWelcome to politics period; the slandering now will include lawsuits against opponits who make the greasiest of pig catching competitions seem clean and sanitary in comparison.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:26amI still stand by my conviction that ALL PUBLIC OFFICIALS (Including, but not limited to: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES) should be forced to take random drug testing!!!!!!! They are ALL SUSPECT…
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:30amThe most interesting part is this event was held in Obama’s old church of hate and anti-American rhetoric
Report Post »So broke
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:36amCan you imagine if the accuser were a white candidate? Al Sharpton would be all over it!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:40amLOL .. she was always saying crazy things .. they are now noticing?
Report Post »josie
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:45amRham is in like Flynn, he knows the mayoral position is his, he’s just sitting back watching these 2 loosers beat each other to the ground. who else will be side by side with Rham, maybe Van Jones, Rev. Wright, Bill Ayres, and most of Obama’s big money supporters, I wonder where Oprah stands….. big money supporter?
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 11:26amThe accused’s response seemed a little casual in the denial.
Oh well, a crack ho would be a lot more interesting as mayor than the same olc run of the mill corruption we would get with a certain former Presidential Chief of Staff.
Report Post »AriBenTZion
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 11:30amWe are losing our culture and this video is evidence of that fact. Politicians use every type of bawdy method there is to attack their opponents. TV personalities use tawdry language on the air. ‘Rap Artist’, use expletives for the lyrics of their backward music.
When is Castro going to run for congress?
G-d help us all.
Report Post »hickoryrat
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 11:35amI can’t believe that anyone with half a brain would even consider voting for Carol Mostly Fraud.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:48pmstreet politics-an evil and disgusting brand. Now would be the time for someone of moral standards to stand up and say “I’ll run for office”.
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 1:07pmNow remember there is “no room for that in Chicago politics.”
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 1:11pmWhat on earth would make us think that any one of these “representatives” are above using drugs…R U kidding me? AND…Obama can’t even stand up for the innocent (constitutionally protected) unborn…he can’t stand up against a full-term baby having its‘ brains sucked out and then it’s lil’ body thrown out with the garbage and trash…This kind of moral degradation opens itself up to just about anything…AND WE THE PEOPLE ARE SEEING IT! “The eye that alters, alters all.”
Report Post »Curator_JDR
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 2:42pmThats rich coming from a woman who “had relations” with Nigerian dictator Charles Taylor for the blood diamond bling-bling when she was Senator (reported in news at the time). People who live in glass houses should be careful, Carol. http://www.marcrubin.com/obama.ivnu
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 2:55pmListening to these two women, almost sounds like the pot calling the kettle black. Agree?
Report Post »getalong
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 3:16pmAhhh…..Chicago. The progressives up to their old tricks again.
Report Post »getalong
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 3:18pmWhy were the media kept out of a public forum?
Report Post »hud
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 5:43pmPoor old MLK didn’t get a friggin thing right about the black race. Every day blacks like these women show their asses in public. It‘s so common that in these types of instances people are shocked when the participants aren’t black. Check this blog for conformation.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:06pm#1. They had to both be Democrats!
Report Post »#2. They both are probably under the delusion that they have the horsepower to beat Rahm.
and:
#3. “When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.”
WILL ROGERS
bostonchris
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 12:20pmin the words of whitney “crack is whack”
Report Post »Nora
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:52pmHey, Let not your heart be troubled. Look what Mayor Marion Barry did for D.C.!
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