State Rep. Doesn't Consider Sheriff Clarke Black

Here we go again.  Another Black Politician who disagrees with another Black Politician so he must not be black enough?

JSOnline:

Clarke is the best known African-American elected to countywide office.
But one local lawmaker won't even concede that.

In a forum held earlier this week, state Rep. Mandela Barnes refused to acknowledge that the controversial sheriff shares the same race as the black legislator.

"We have one black countywide elected official . . . and I don't even accept him as black," said Barnes, a Milwaukee Democrat, prompting "oohs" from the crowd at the forum hosted by The Capital Times at the High Noon Saloon in Madison.

"All right -- are you tweeting this?" Journal Sentinel columnist Christian Schneider, another panelist, asked a Cap Times staffer, according to audio of the event (the exchange begins at 43 minutes).
"You can tweet -- you all have my permission to tweet that," Barnes said.

Who Would Deal with the Mets Now?

It appears that the NY Mets have blackballed themselves in the Baseball World.

In what appeared to be a trade deal between the Brewers and the Mets that had the whole Baseball world buzzing quickly got much more dramatic when the deal was called off late Wednesday night.

The Mets claim that Carlos Gomez has a hip injury that caused them to stop the trade.  However new reports have surfaced that said that they true breakdown of the trade was the Mets ever changing requests in the deal.  They appeared to be looking for a way out of the deal and made one up.  Not only did it stop the trade, but it has created issues for both organizations.

The Mets are most definitely the ones with egg on their face and now have made other teams probably pretty hesitant to deal with them.  They flat out through the Brewer GM under the bus in getting out of the trade and that is something you just don't do.

So the good news is, Gomez is still a Brewer, he is healthy and the Mets look like the idiots that they are.