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Article: Ministers call Mayor Hahn's $25,000 grants `hush money'
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- Daily Breeze
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- February 14, 2002
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Ministers call Mayor Hahn's $25,000 grants `hush money'
In what some ministers now denounce as "hush money,"Mayor James
Hahn offered three African-American churches $25,000 each in city
grants in the weeks leading up to his announcement that he opposes a
second term for Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks, the Daily
News learned Tuesday.
Two of the ministers said that in light of Hahn's stance on Parks -
- and regardless of Hahn's motivations -- they feel it would be
immoral to keep the badly needed money and intend to refuse it. The
third church identified as receiving a $25,000 grant commitment from
the mayor was Second Baptist Church. Speaking for Hahn, Deputy Mayor
Matt Middlebrook ...