http://www.extrememortman.com/candidates/hardly-a-candidate-for-porkbusters/ Just When You Thought it was Safe to Take Politics Seriously Again Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:16:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.extrememortman.com/candidates/hardly-a-candidate-for-porkbusters/#comment-851 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:34:03 +0000 http://www.extrememortman.com/candidates/hardly-a-candidate-for-porkbusters/#comment-851 I doubt the claim about 'first Jew in a majority black district'. While Samuel N. Friedel (D - MD 7) was narrowly defeated for renomination in 1968 by black candidate (and ultimately Congressman) Parren J. Mitchell (brother of famous NAACP civil rights lobbyist Clarence Mitchell, Jr.), he had been re-elected in 1966 in the same district, likely just as black then as two years later. I doubt the claim about ‘first Jew in a majority black district’. While Samuel N. Friedel (D - MD 7) was narrowly defeated for renomination in 1968 by black candidate (and ultimately Congressman) Parren J. Mitchell (brother of famous NAACP civil rights lobbyist Clarence Mitchell, Jr.), he had been re-elected in 1966 in the same district, likely just as black then as two years later.

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