Top this Local Politician Game
tybird
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Let's play a little game and attempt to show the world all of our bad local politicians....I'll start with Dr. Antwon Womack....a candidate for the Birmingham (Alabama) Board of Education:
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/08/sch ... won_1.html
"Birmingham School Board candidate Antwon Womack says he's not getting out of the race for the District 6 seat afterall.
"I am going to stay in the race and continue to campaign to Tuesday. Whatever the people decide on Tuesday, we'll go from there," Womack said in an interview.
In a statement from the Antwon Womack campaign released this afternoon the candidate said:
"Today I am re-assuring the voters of my district that has expressed their continuing support in my campaign in spite of my false statements about my pass. I will not comment publicly about my allegations anymore, however now is time for me to express my thoughts on why I am in this race. Early part of the year I questioned about running for the school board and which district to run for, and also talked with my friends and now supporters that encouraged me to enter the race. I think the public should know who encourage me to enter the race and who is supporting my campaign like LaShunda Scales a candidate for District 1 City Council and Carole Smitherman both encouraged me to enter the race and is continuing to support my campaign. And I thank them for their support."
Both Smitherman and Scales said they have not offered support to Womack and called on him to stop associating their names with his campaign.
"I am not in that race. I have not endorsed any candidate for the District 6 school board race," Smitherman said. "He needs to withdraw those comments." She is in a hotly contested race for Birmingham City Council in that district.
Scales said she knows Womack, but has not been involved in his campaign.
"I have enough to do in my own campaign," Scales said. "I don't have anything against Mr. Womack, but my attention is focused on District 1 and the concerns of the residents in our area.
Earlier this week, Womack said he was dropping out of the race after admitting he lied on most of his biography on his campaign website, Facebook page and in interviews.
The Birmingham News reported Tuesday that Womack had lied about his age, education and residence while campaigning. Womack admitted he lied on his campaign Web site and his Facebook page, which he also used to campaign, by claiming he was 23 years old, graduated from West End High School in 2005 and received a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Alabama A&M in 2009.
Records indicate Womack is 21 years old and dropped out of Wenonah High School in 2004 as a freshman. Student record databases at Alabama A&M show Womack was never a student at the university.
"I made a mistake, we all have made mistakes and I apologize and long as I am 21 years I am qualified to run for public office."
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/m ... xml&coll=2
MARIE LEECH
News staff writer
Antwon Womack, candidate for District 6 on the Birmingham Board of Education, said at a news conference Tuesday that he will not drop out of the race after The Birmingham News reported that he lied about much of his resume while campaigning.
"My campaign is not based on a foundation of lies," Womack said Tuesday. "My values are not lies. It's just the information I provided to the people is false."
Womack admitted again Tuesday that he lied on both his campaign Web site and his Facebook page, which he also uses to campaign, by claiming he was 23 years old, graduated from West End High School in 2005 and received a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Alabama A&M in 2009.
On a Web site for "Democracy For America," Womack refers to himself as "Dr. Antwon B. Womack" in his application for a Netroots Nation Scholarship. In the application, Womack states he has been campaign chairman for more than three campaigns in the last two years, but doesn't say which ones. He also said in the application that if he doesn't win the Board of Education election, he sees himself running for state Senate.
Records show Womack is 21 years old and dropped out of Wenonah High School in 2004 as a freshman. Student record databases at Alabama A&M show Womack was never a student at the university.
"I have been told not to drop out of the race," Womack said, but declined to say who told him that. "I apologize to District 6 voters for this. ... This here is not the end of the world."
When confronted with the discrepancies Monday, Womack admitted the embellishments to his biography and said he wanted to make himself look older and more dignified so voters would take him more seriously.
At that time, he also admitted he didn't live in Birmingham's District 6, and said he instead lived in Fairfield.
But Tuesday, when asked again about where he lived, he told reporters he indeed lives in Birmingham's District 6.
"I made a mistake; I take full responsibility," he said. "I ask that from this day forward, I not be asked about this again."
Womack said he has an obligation to his supporters to continue campaigning for the board. He has five opponents.
"The reason for running for school board is because I seen a lack of leadership. Not only that, I was in high school struggling through high school not because of disciplinary but because of a learning disability," he said. "I felt that we could've had more done ... so that students like myself who wanted a better education could've had one."
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/08/sch ... won_1.html
"Birmingham School Board candidate Antwon Womack says he's not getting out of the race for the District 6 seat afterall.
"I am going to stay in the race and continue to campaign to Tuesday. Whatever the people decide on Tuesday, we'll go from there," Womack said in an interview.
In a statement from the Antwon Womack campaign released this afternoon the candidate said:
"Today I am re-assuring the voters of my district that has expressed their continuing support in my campaign in spite of my false statements about my pass. I will not comment publicly about my allegations anymore, however now is time for me to express my thoughts on why I am in this race. Early part of the year I questioned about running for the school board and which district to run for, and also talked with my friends and now supporters that encouraged me to enter the race. I think the public should know who encourage me to enter the race and who is supporting my campaign like LaShunda Scales a candidate for District 1 City Council and Carole Smitherman both encouraged me to enter the race and is continuing to support my campaign. And I thank them for their support."
Both Smitherman and Scales said they have not offered support to Womack and called on him to stop associating their names with his campaign.
"I am not in that race. I have not endorsed any candidate for the District 6 school board race," Smitherman said. "He needs to withdraw those comments." She is in a hotly contested race for Birmingham City Council in that district.
Scales said she knows Womack, but has not been involved in his campaign.
"I have enough to do in my own campaign," Scales said. "I don't have anything against Mr. Womack, but my attention is focused on District 1 and the concerns of the residents in our area.
Earlier this week, Womack said he was dropping out of the race after admitting he lied on most of his biography on his campaign website, Facebook page and in interviews.
The Birmingham News reported Tuesday that Womack had lied about his age, education and residence while campaigning. Womack admitted he lied on his campaign Web site and his Facebook page, which he also used to campaign, by claiming he was 23 years old, graduated from West End High School in 2005 and received a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Alabama A&M in 2009.
Records indicate Womack is 21 years old and dropped out of Wenonah High School in 2004 as a freshman. Student record databases at Alabama A&M show Womack was never a student at the university.
"I made a mistake, we all have made mistakes and I apologize and long as I am 21 years I am qualified to run for public office."
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/m ... xml&coll=2
MARIE LEECH
News staff writer
Antwon Womack, candidate for District 6 on the Birmingham Board of Education, said at a news conference Tuesday that he will not drop out of the race after The Birmingham News reported that he lied about much of his resume while campaigning.
"My campaign is not based on a foundation of lies," Womack said Tuesday. "My values are not lies. It's just the information I provided to the people is false."
Womack admitted again Tuesday that he lied on both his campaign Web site and his Facebook page, which he also uses to campaign, by claiming he was 23 years old, graduated from West End High School in 2005 and received a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Alabama A&M in 2009.
On a Web site for "Democracy For America," Womack refers to himself as "Dr. Antwon B. Womack" in his application for a Netroots Nation Scholarship. In the application, Womack states he has been campaign chairman for more than three campaigns in the last two years, but doesn't say which ones. He also said in the application that if he doesn't win the Board of Education election, he sees himself running for state Senate.
Records show Womack is 21 years old and dropped out of Wenonah High School in 2004 as a freshman. Student record databases at Alabama A&M show Womack was never a student at the university.
"I have been told not to drop out of the race," Womack said, but declined to say who told him that. "I apologize to District 6 voters for this. ... This here is not the end of the world."
When confronted with the discrepancies Monday, Womack admitted the embellishments to his biography and said he wanted to make himself look older and more dignified so voters would take him more seriously.
At that time, he also admitted he didn't live in Birmingham's District 6, and said he instead lived in Fairfield.
But Tuesday, when asked again about where he lived, he told reporters he indeed lives in Birmingham's District 6.
"I made a mistake; I take full responsibility," he said. "I ask that from this day forward, I not be asked about this again."
Womack said he has an obligation to his supporters to continue campaigning for the board. He has five opponents.
"The reason for running for school board is because I seen a lack of leadership. Not only that, I was in high school struggling through high school not because of disciplinary but because of a learning disability," he said. "I felt that we could've had more done ... so that students like myself who wanted a better education could've had one."
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