President Obama Needs to Cut Ties with This Alleged Grifter (Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson)

[KamaAina]

Last edited Tue Oct 20, 2015, 05:29 PM - Edit history (1)

Xpost from California group.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a39009/kevin-johnson-sexual-misconduct-grifting/

As I think we've mentioned several dozen times in this shebeen, the president's inexplicable sweet-tooth for the grifters, rounders, and mountebanks of the school "reform" movement is one of the most puzzling aspects of his years in office. One of the most egregious examples of this is the president's willingness to associate with Kevin Johnson, former NBA point guard, mayor of Sacramento, and husband of queen-bee grifter Michelle Rhee. On many levels, Johnson is a truly awful human being.

Thanks to Deadspin's invaluable Dave McKenna, the onetime bane of evil-dwarf owner Dan Snyder in Washington, we are spelunking pretty regularly into the dark, dank depths of the muck that composes Kevin Johnson's political soul. What we find there is best left to the folks in the HazMat suits to handle. McKenna's most recent expedition has brought back the usual bagful of pure, foul awfulness....

This revelation comes as Johnson is in the worst spot of his three-decade run in the public eye. ESPN canceled the debut of Down in the Valley, a documentary that deified Johnson for having finagled $255 million in public money to keep the local NBA franchise in his hometown but totally ignored his well-documented dark side. The seamiest portions of Johnson's back story involve the many allegations of sexual abuse and harassment that have come his way his way since the mid-1990s. Johnson has never been charged with a sex crime, but ESPN's shelving the movie comes amid growing suspicions that a key reason none of the abuse claims made against him derailed his rise to power is that he made legal settlements that forced alleged victims to hush up....

There is nothing redeeming about this man. There is nothing redeeming about his wife. There is nothing redeeming about what they are trying to do to public education while enriching themselves. The president should cut these grifters loose. Yesterday. And John Stockton was a better player anyway.​

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1. ESPN's web site had a long story on this too

Seems he's a sleeze, many details of his dalliance with a teen girl.

[Blue_Tires]

2. Well, after selling the Kings, the Maloofs aren't the worst people in sactown anymore

Although I will never understand how they found a sucker willing to pay $535m for the worst NBA team in the west...