Telling of Life Story Enlivens Mfume's Campaign
Redemption, and the Narrative Explaining It, Define Md. Senate Candidate
By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 27, 2006; C01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/26/AR2006082600438_pf.html...
At each of these steps, the story he was telling about himself had a new and better ending.
At each step, the man with the radio-honed voice was learning to tell it better.
In real life, however, the happy ending hasn't been as neat.
His departure from the NAACP in 2004 was marred by a memo reporting that office rumors linked Mfume, who is divorced, with seven women at the organization and suggested he gave them raises and promotions.
Prepared by an NAACP lawyer after an extensive inquiry into an employee's complaint, it detailed reports of two confrontations -- one an argument, one with a punch thrown -- among women alleged to be competing for his attention.
Mfume has said since that the allegations of favoritism were not corroborated.