NAACP Los Angeles President Alice Huffman Sells Out Black Families
\nMedia Advisory
\nOctober 30, 2008
\nContact: Chip White, 916-446-2956<\/p>\n
LOS ANGELES, CA – Campaign finance records reveal that Alice Huffman, President of the California State NAACP, the only major African American leader in California to endorse legalized gay marriage, has received nearly $200,000 from the NO on 8 campaign in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fees\u00e2\u20ac\u009d through her company AC Public Affairs.<\/p>\n
African American leaders throughout California were shocked when Huffman, as a member of the NAACP Board, endorsed the No on 8 campaign despite the statewide, unified voices of African American political and religious leaders in support of traditional marriage. Huffman has never taken a vote of NAACP chapters and members, which is customary before endorsing any state measure or proposition. Records show that Alice Huffman, through her AC Public Affairs Company, received $100,000 from NO on 8 on October 2nd of 2008 and another $98,000 on the 14th of October 2008.<\/p>\n
Trina Williams, Vice President of Inglewood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NAACP Chapter, said today that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no endorsement of ANY proposition is ever authorized without a resolution, a vote, and a majority vote of its members.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Williams indicated that to date, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Inglewood NAACP has yet to receive any word from the national organization telling us to vote NO on Proposition 8.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Huffman appears in print advertising and mailers for NO on 8 along with one or two civil rights leaders supporting NO on Proposition 8.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Alice Huffman has used her position without support of the vast majority of African American people and interfaith leaders in our communities in Los Angeles or California. It is very disappointing and misleading to say that she is representing the African American community or the NAACP, which is and has always been passionately in support of traditional marriage and traditional families,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Williams.<\/p>\n
Huffman claims to have taken a vote of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153executive board\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the state NAACP, but would still have a conflict of interest in the matter having taken two hundred thousand dollars from the No on 8 campaign. According to an article in the January 18th 2008 edition of the Sacramento Bee Huffman said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Campaigning and politics is my livelihood….that’s how I make my money to buy my Gucci handbags and other things that enhance my standard of living.”<\/p>\n
Black leaders in Los Angeles, including Trina Williams and the interfaith ministers from the large African American congregations in Los Angeles, including Zoe Christian Fellowship, are calling for a national investigation of Alice Huffman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dealings with the No on 8 campaign.<\/p>\n
African American voters formed the largest supportive voting block for traditional marriage when it was on the ballot in California in 2000. Political experts anticipate that the African American vote will weigh in heavily on Tuesday, November 4th, thanks to the candidacy of Barack Obama. YES on Proposition 8 expects the turnout to be very helpful to its campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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