From the Daily News:Former city Councilman Allan Jennings is suing a weekly newspaper in Queens for defamation, saying it helped turn voters against him during last year’s Council race.
Jennings said the Queens Chronicle erred in stating he had once put an advertisement in a Chinese-language newspaper “declaring his love for all Asian women.”
He said the statement was made in an Oct. 28, 2010, article about his bid for his former 28th District seat. Ruben Wills won that special election.
“The statement was intended to turn voters against Allan Jennings in his district considering that fact that the majority of the voters are African-American,” according to the lawsuit filed in Queens Supreme Court last week.
The reference dates back to a 2003 article in Newsday that disclosed Jennings — then a member of the Council — had placed advertisements in the World Journal and the Sing Tao Daily.
In those ads, according to the report in Newsday, Jennings thanked the Chinese community for accepting him and expressed his love for his girlfriend, a Chinese folkdancer, while criticizing his estranged Taiwanese wife.
9 comments:
Sounds like he does not like freedom of the press.
Another of the "I'm entitled" crowd created in the 70s.
This guy is probably the most bizarre (former) elected official in the history of the Borough of Queens, which is saying a lot.
This says more about the district that Mr. Jennings was running for, than what he said.
He could have run for some district in most of Manhattan and this wouldn't have even come up.
The Chronicle helping sink a candidate? nothing new here. Queens Tribune is better at it, though.
I think he should run for mayor. It would be a really entertaining campaign
Allan Jennings: "I love the ads in the back of the Queens Tribune. That's why I hate the Queens Chronicle."
That paper is a shell for the Democratic machine and conviently mankes errors that hurt the machine;s opposition.
That paper is a shell for the Democratic machine and conviently mankes errors that hurt the machine;s opposition.
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Errors??? Pot calling the kettle black?
English major? More like a private!
Why is he pro se? Can't get a lawyer on the case? Doesn't he do paralegal work for some Republican power-house legal eagle?
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