PBC black leaders endorse Crist..

Debunking the Democratic story line that angry blacks are supporting Kendrick Meek, former Palm Beach County Commission Addie Greene and several other county black elected officials joined independent U.S. Senate candidate Charlie Crist this morning on his People’s Express campaign bus.

“Someone needs to stand up and say that this race is not about Kendrick Meek,” Greene said, explaining why she had climbed aboard. “This is not about blacks turning their backs on Kendrick Meek. This is about moving the president’s agenda.”

She said she decided to come out of the shadows and announce that she had voted for Crist by absentee ballot several weeks ago after the story broke this week that former President Bill Clinton had asked Meek to get out of the race and endorse Crist.

Greene said Meek should have stepped aside for the good of the country. “This is about moving Obama’s agenda forward. We need someone strong enough to win this seat and I believe our governor is the one who can do that.”

Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters and City Councilwoman Earlene Weston also joined the Crist campaign this morning. Masters, who introduced Crist at stops at Shiloh Missionary Church at Inlet Grove High School and Redemptive Life Fellowship in West Palm Beach, urged the predominantly black church-goers to vote for Crist. Weston, a former principal of Roosevelt Middle School, said it’s no one’s business who she votes for.

She said: “Charlie Crist, my governor, is the only candidate for anything who has had enough integrity to stop in my community. Case closed.”

PostPolitics/Musgrave/ 10/31/2010

FLconnection/ Arnoldo Varona, Editor