Black democractic althlete-politicians

[Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*       From: Michael Perelman <

Have any star black athletes won major elective office as democrats?  I am
thinking of Lynn Swann running for governor in Penna., JT Watts as a rep.
from OK.  Charles Barkley suggesting a few years ago that he would run for
gov. of Alabama.

The white athletes have not done well either.  Macmillan was a rep. from
Maryland & we all know Bill Bradley.  On the other side, we have coach Tom
Osborne, Jim Bunning,
... and even in an earlier time Vinegar Bend Mizell.  Steve Largent was
pretty right wing.  Oh yes, Gerald Ford was an all american football player.

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CB: The rightwing Senator Jim Bunning was a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers
in the fifties and sixties.