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The Vallejo branch of the NAACP was torn apart this year by the sudden death of its longtime president, Jimmie Jackson, in January. Now, a conflict has arisen over who should take his place. Letters from the organization’s state conference dated March 8 — and lawyers from its national office dated March 15 — demanded that former Vallejo City Council member Hakeem Brown abandon his claims to the position. Mark Hedin | California Black Media The Vallejo branch of the NAACP was torn apart this year by the sudden death of its longtime president, Jimmie Jackson, in January. Now, a conflict ha...
That would be helpful, i imagine, for this job. elizabeth: will wait to find out. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it thank you so much. leland: let's bring in our feral and balanced panelist. mark lampkin and dan former senior advisor on the obama campaign. gentlemen, nice to see you. as we look at what's going on, it seems as though you have these two competing narratives. you have the president oversees being a presidential and at the same time you have him stuck in what has become -- anytime a special prosecutor, scandal if you will in washington. >> that's certainly true. what we o...
I mean, this whole idea that we're going to shut down the government to get rid of obamacare in 2013, this plan never had a chance. >> joining me right now is mark lampkin, boehner's former general counsel. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> calling gop conservatives on the hill false prophets. pretty strong language. do you feel he is feeling just a bit more liberated to speak his mind now? >> i think certainly there's liberation but there's also the truth. what we've got in washington or a group of people, both elected officials as well as kind of interested parties that create these fa...