JAMES WEBB: Measure of a Man
25 September 2006 10:28 am by Taylor Marsh
JAMES WEBB: Measure of a Man –updated–
Offered without comment, except to say that James Webb needs your help. He cannot do it without a significant cash infusion. Every dollar counts.
For those of you who have already given, thank you. Your CDs are in the mail! Sending CDs until I run out. Remember, Christmas is coming and everyone likes to get a CD.
Just think about it: George Allen or James Webb. The difference is what happens to this country here, in Iraq and in the future. Give what you can.
UPDATE (12:30 p.m.): Shelton pushes back on Allen's \”denial\”.
… Shelton, a tight end and wide receiver for the Cavaliers in the early 1970s, said Allen used the N-word only around white teammates.
Shelton said the incident with the deer occurred during their college days when he, Allen and another teammate who has since died were hunting on a farm the third man's family owned near Bumpass, Va., 40 miles east of the university.
Shelton said Allen asked the other teammate where black families lived in the area, then stuffed a female deer's head into the mail box of one of the homes.
\”George insisted on taking the severed head, and I was a little shocked by that,\” Shelton said.
\”This was just after the movie \”The Godfather\” came out with the severed horse's head in the bed,\” Shelton told the AP.
Shelton described himself as an independent who has supported Democratic and Republican candidates and has no political reason to attack Allen. He said he regretted that he had not spoken against Allen in the early 1980s, when he was first entering politics, and began writing down his recollections as Allen's career \”ascended to heights I never could have imagined.\”
He said he came forward to Salon.com because of Allen's mention as a 2008 presidential candidate and because of the Macaca incident.
\”When I saw the look in his eye in that camera and using the word 'macaca,' it just brought back the bullying way I knew from George back then,\” Shelton said. …
Allen denies ex-teammate's charge he used racial slur in college
