Wellington Webb Wins Support from Kwame Kilpatrick, Willie Brown, Others
Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 02:18PM
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Wellington Webb is a vice chairman
of the national party and the only minority out of seven men seeking to
replace outgoing chairman Terry McAuliffe. Webb has snagged support
from African-American party brass such as Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of
Detroit and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. On Tuesday he also
garnered endorsements from DNC deputy chair Ben Johnson of Washington,
D.C., plus DNC members Harvey Johnson Jr., mayor of Jackson, Miss. and
Mayor Douglas Palmer of Trenton. Webb has also received the backing of,
among others: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Kansas City, Mo.; Rep. Albert
Wynn of Baltimore. But others such as Johnson, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
of Illinois, former Clinton aide Minyon Moore and Democratic National
Committee Black Caucus chairwoman Yvonne Atkinson Gates have pledged
support to Dean. Former presidential candidate Al Sharpton said
Saturday that he expected that day to endorse Webb's candidacy. As of
Wednesday, Sharpton's endorsement still hadn't come through. Eastern
Democrats will interview chairman candidates in New York on Saturday in
the last of four regional meetings before the full committee's vote in
mid-February. The Denver Post January 27, 2005
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