Delegates of the nation’s largest black religious organization have spared FAMU the embarrassment of having Trustee R.B. Holmes and an ex-con serve as that organization’s vice-president and president, respectively.
Disgraced former National Baptist Convention, USA, President Henry J. Lyons and his runningmate Holmes received only 924 votes (or 18 percent) of the total 5,032 ballots cast.
The new president will be the Rev. Julius R. Scruggs of Huntsville, Ala., who currently serves as the convention’s vice-president at-large.
The election landslide represented a sound rejection of Lyons and his scandalous record. Lyons previously served five years in prison for defrauding the convention’s corporate donors out of $5.2M. According to the Associated Press, he used the money "to buy luxury homes and jewelry and support his mistresses."
The Associated Press quoted one convention attendee as saying, "if Lyons wins, every black Baptist will be looked down on in America because of the low standards that Lyons has had in the past."
With the Lyons-Holmes defeat, Rattlers won’t have to sit through years of negative news articles covering Holmes’ exploits in a tainted church administration.
Disgraced former National Baptist Convention, USA, President Henry J. Lyons and his runningmate Holmes received only 924 votes (or 18 percent) of the total 5,032 ballots cast.
The new president will be the Rev. Julius R. Scruggs of Huntsville, Ala., who currently serves as the convention’s vice-president at-large.
The election landslide represented a sound rejection of Lyons and his scandalous record. Lyons previously served five years in prison for defrauding the convention’s corporate donors out of $5.2M. According to the Associated Press, he used the money "to buy luxury homes and jewelry and support his mistresses."
The Associated Press quoted one convention attendee as saying, "if Lyons wins, every black Baptist will be looked down on in America because of the low standards that Lyons has had in the past."
With the Lyons-Holmes defeat, Rattlers won’t have to sit through years of negative news articles covering Holmes’ exploits in a tainted church administration.
For Christ's sake, RB. Have you no shame?
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