Boxing Promoter Don King Stumps for Bush

[Snellius]

PHILADELPHIA - Don King, the wild-haired boxing promoter, is touring the country with Republican National Committee (news - web sites) chairman Ed Gillespie to tout President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election.
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"People understand that George Walker Bush is the man with the plan to make America better," King, sporting an American flag tie and plenty of diamond-encrusted jewelry, told a group of black business leaders at a downtown jazz club. "Sometimes, just sometimes, it ain't too bad to be in the Bushes."
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King's rap sheet makes him an odd choice for Bush front man. He was convicted in the 1967 beating death of a man who owed him money and spent nearly four years in prison. In 1954, he killed a man who was robbing a numbers house he operated in Cleveland, but it was ruled self-defense.

King also has beaten tax evasion and fraud charges, faced numerous lawsuits from boxers and their handlers and endured three grand jury investigations and an FBI (news - web sites) sting operation — all while cementing his status as one of the world's top boxing promoters.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=20&u=/ap/republicans_king

[0007]

1. A crook stumping for a crook - are they hard up or what?

[Fridays Child]

3. Bo Derek must be busy.

[still_one]

2. One bum supportting another bum so what's new

[Mojambo]

4. As if I needed another reason to despise Bush. n/t

[Moderator]

5. Duplicate, and a little old

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