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Unlike the black community, which has Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, which rally support in the community when violence happens, Latinos have no leaders who seek for justice, activists have argued.
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P1110726 on Flickr.Al Sharpton and Bill Thompson, during the 2009 mayor’s race. View high resolution

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Al Sharpton and Bill Thompson, during the 2009 mayor’s race.

My story: I emailed Browne to ask about the alleged spying incident, asking whether the department had an officer or informant providing information to them about Sharpton’s activities without his knowledge. Brown’s responded: ”Neither the Rev. Sharpton nor the National Action Network, but a separate individual who was present was the subject of the NYPD Intelligence Division‘s interest at the May 3, 2008 meeting in question.”

My story:

I emailed Browne to ask about the alleged spying incident, asking whether the department had an officer or informant providing information to them about Sharpton’s activities without his knowledge.

Brown’s responded: ”Neither the Rev. Sharpton nor the National Action Network, but a separate individual who was present was the subject of the NYPD Intelligence Division‘s interest at the May 3, 2008 meeting in question.”

“I’m meeting with the Muslims on Tuesday,” Sharpton told me. “I’m very concerned about that.” More here.

“I’m meeting with the Muslims on Tuesday,” Sharpton told me. “I’m very concerned about that.”

More here.

At a 2012 Martin Luther King Day celebration in Manhattan. Your caption? View high resolution

At a 2012 Martin Luther King Day celebration in Manhattan.

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Most of the candidates who pay tribute to [Sharpton] aren’t nearly as concerned with the support of a man who has never drawn even 150,000 votes in four losing runs for office, as with defending themselves from the negative attention he can summon.
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Sharpton Bored of the ‘Reinvention of Sharpton’ Story

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“I’m not an insider, I’m just one that has access,” Sharpton told me at his annual conference this week, where he hosted President Obama and several top White House aides.

Sharpton said he was surprised his embrace of Obama made the front page of several New York newspapers.

“Every time something happens, it’s the re-invention of Al Sharpton,” he said. “Why don’t they just admit maybe we didn’t understand what he was saying in the first place?”

Axelrod at Sharpton’s annual conference in Midtown today. My story: “We did a lot more serving than pleasing because of the challenges that we face.” [skip]  I asked Axelrod about a judicial race in Wisconsin that he mentioned during his speech, where an ally of Republican Governor Walker was in a deadheat with a little-known progressive candidate. “It told me the atmosphere in Wisconsin’s changed dramatically. I would venture to say if the governor there were running today, if you re-ran the same race you ran in November he would lose, and not by a few votes,” said Axelrod. “I think independent voters have seen enough to know that they’re uncomfortable. I think Democratic voters are mobilized and I think that’s a microcosm of what is happening in many places around the country,” he said. View high resolution

Axelrod at Sharpton’s annual conference in Midtown today.

My story:

“We did a lot more serving than pleasing because of the challenges that we face.”

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 I asked Axelrod about a judicial race in Wisconsin that he mentioned during his speech, where an ally of Republican Governor Walker was in a deadheat with a little-known progressive candidate.

“It told me the atmosphere in Wisconsin’s changed dramatically. I would venture to say if the governor there were running today, if you re-ran the same race you ran in November he would lose, and not by a few votes,” said Axelrod.

“I think independent voters have seen enough to know that they’re uncomfortable. I think Democratic voters are mobilized and I think that’s a microcosm of what is happening in many places around the country,” he said.