Wyclef Jean Not Allowed to Run for President of Haiti
Wyclef Jean, who announced his candidacy for president of Haiti earlier this month, will not be allowed to appear on the Nov. 28 ballot because his application was rejected, a source tells Reuters.
According to a member of the provisional electoral council, which will formally publish the list of approved candidates tomorrow, Wyclef is not in compliance with legal requirements because presidential candidates must have spent the five years prior to the election living in Haiti. Wyclef lives in New Jersey and is a naturalized US citizen.
He argued that he should be exempt from the residency requirement because of his position as a roving ambassador. His powers of persuasions didn’t work.
Earlier this week Wyclef announced he was forced to go into hiding following death threats death on the island.
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Wyclef Accused Of Squandering Haitian Quake Relief Funds
November 27, 2011 - 7:37 PM
Tags: charity, haiti, wyclef jean
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Less than a third of the $16 million gathered in 2010 by hip-hop star Wyclef Jean for earthquake relief in Haiti actually made it to emergency efforts in the country, the New York Post reported on Sunday.
According to the exclusive report, Jean’s charity, Yele Haiti, doled out millions in questionable contracts [...]
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November 7, 2011 - 3:56 PM
Tags: herman cain, politics, sexual harrassment
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WASHINGTON – High-profile discrimination attorney Gloria Allred said Monday that another woman is accusing Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain of sexual harassment and will appear at a news conference in New York later in the day.
Allred’s client – whom she did not identify – would be the first woman to go public with accusations [...]
Fmr President Bill Clinton Partly Blames President Obama For The Country Being ‘In A Mess”
November 5, 2011 - 8:20 PM
Tags: barack obama, bill clinton, politics
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(New York Post) – Former President Bill Clinton thinks the country is “in a mess” — and some of the blame goes to President Barack Obama and the Democrats.
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Georgia Board Denies Clemency For Troy Davis
September 20, 2011 - 12:10 PM
Tags: police corruption, politics
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ATLANTA – Georgia’s pardons board rejected a last-ditch clemency plea from death row inmate Troy Davis on Tuesday despite high-profile support from figures including the pope and a former FBI director for the claim that he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989.
Davis is scheduled to die Wednesday by injection for the [...]
Wyclef Says He’s A Fan Of Sarah Palin! Says She’s Qualified To Be President.
September 16, 2011 - 11:38 AM
Tags: president, sarah palin, wyclef jean
Posted in Uncategorized | 2 comments
Artist, singer, and former Haitian Presidential candidate, Wyclef Jean has told MTV that he is a “huge fan of Sarah Palin” and is disappointed that she is not running for President.
Wyclef was previously a self proclaimed Obama groupie during the 2008 Presidential Election.
The Huffington Post reports:
“I have to tell you this: I am a huge [...]
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Tags: bill oreilly, debate, lupe fiasco, politics
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you think lupe held it down? or looked like an idiot? speak on it!
Obama Birth Certificate Released
April 27, 2011 - 10:12 AM
Tags: barack obama, politics
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(CNN) – President Obama released his original birth certificate Wednesday, saying the controversy surrounding the issue had become a “sideshow.”
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“Over the last two and half years, I have [...]
Haitian Police Say Wyclef Jean Wasn’t Shot
March 21, 2011 - 9:31 AM
Tags: shooting, wyclef jean
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A false report that Haitian-American hip hop star Wyclef Jean, who backs Martelly, had been shot in the hand on the eve of the vote generated a U.S. media frenzy.
But Vanel Lacroix, police chief in Petionville where Jean is staying, said police had confirmed that he had suffered only a minor cut to his hand [...]
Wyclef Shot, But Doing Well
March 20, 2011 - 5:20 PM
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A spokesman for Wyclef Jean says the hip-hop star has been released from a hospital after being treated for a gunshot wound to his hand.
Joe Mignon, senior program director for Jean’s Yele Foundation, says Jean was shot in the hand after 11 p.m. local time Saturday in the city of Delmas, just [...]
Republican Says Black People Should Be Sent To Farms To Pick Crops
March 16, 2011 - 4:08 PM
Tags: politics, racism
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Congressional candidate Jack Davis shocked local Republican leaders in a recent interview when he suggested that Latino farmworkers be deported — and that African-Americans from the inner city be bused to farm country to pick the crops.
Several sources who were in the Feb. 20 endorsement interview with Davis confirmed his comments, which echo those he [...]
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