Thursday, July 15, 2010

Oakland Mayor's Race: Black Clergy endorse NO candidate for mayor

Greg Harland - no endorsement 
Yesterday this space ran a blog post based on a source who was under the impression that Oakland Mayor's Race candidate Greg Harland beat out Don Perata for the endorsement of a group called the Bay City Baptist Union at a Tuesday meeting at The Good Hope Church in Oakland. One of its members is Oakland Pastor Joe Smith who's at Good Hope Church. Pastor Smith was kind enough to call this blogger and help set the record straight.

The group "did not endorse any candidate" Pastor Smith said. "Harland wasn't supposed to be there."

According to Pastor Smith, what happened was the chair of the Bay City Baptist Union said something inappropriate to Don Perata to the effect of "you should retire" or words to that effect. Perata said something to the effect of "well, you can vote for who you want to."

Pastor Smith explains that he personally supports Don Perata for Mayor, even though the 60-member Bay City Baptist Union has made no official endorsement. They're set to have a meeting on the Oakland Mayor's Race within the coming days.

Is it a setback for Greg Harland? No. For Don Perata? Not exactly, but clearly, and from Pastor Smith's perspective, the chair wasn't nice to Perata.

But remember, Pastor Joe Smith is backing Don Perata.

Stay tuned.

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