I think that Reverend Gallmon did not stand a good chance of winning a three-way contest for the presidency of the Minneapolis NAACP because he was seen as an outsider. I never saw Mr. Gallmon at an NAACP branch meeting prior to October 2002. Gallmon ran for the post of first vice-president unopposed.
I think that Edwards had the support of most longtime NAACP members who supported Leola Seals (the elected branch president from 1996 to 1999). Many Seals supporters were kept off of committees and otherwise marginalized after the DFL helped to remove Seals and her supporters from the leadership of the Minneapolis NAACP branch. Most of Seals supporters eventually left the NAACP due to local leadership's cozy relationship with the School Board and the DFL establishment, and deals done by the post-Seals leadership in relation to the Hollman Consent Decree and the settlement of the NAACP's educational adequacy lawsuit. Ron Edwards' poor showing in the NAACP election, as reported in the press, was due in part to the fact that many of his supporters cast "challenged" ballots or were not allowed to vote at all. Some of the "turmoil" in the NAACP branch to which Doug Grow refers is related to allegations by many of Edwards' supporters that they were improperly disenfranchised by Edwards' opponents [who conducted the election]. In an article published in the March 10-16, 1999 issue of the Pulse of the Twin Cities, I described the DFL's hostile takeover of the Minneapolis NAACP branch, which was then in progress. See: http://educationright.tripod.com/id44.htm -Doug Mann, King Field, the new 8th ward Mann for School Board s\web site: http://educationright.tripod.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
