Former mayoral candidate Carol Chumney doesn’t appear to be adopting the role of gracious loser.
Chumney, who lost to A C Wharton with a third-place finish and 10 percent of the vote, told WKNO-FM Radio that she’s skeptical of Wharton’s sincerity.
“While I was out there fighting for childcare reform he was making money representing the childcare broker. I was doing things in the state legislature and he was bragging about how much money he made as an attorney. I gave a lot of that up to serve the people and, you know, I don’t regret that,” she said.
What do you think, does Chumney have the right to knock her former competitor? Could another political fight with Wharton be in Chumney’s future?
UPDATE: Chumney has alerted Eye on City Hall that she gave WKNO this interview after she voted, not after the election results were in. This means these remarks were not made after she had lost the election.
This is why Chumney got less than 10% of the vote. She represents a white female version of the same combative language as WWH.
She is finished politically.
There's a problem here: I sent this to Carol, who advised me that she said this to the WKNO reporter WHILE SHE WAS VOTING ON ELECTION DAY, not AFTER the results were in.
Neither the WKNO piece nor this one mentions that, and paints Carol as a bitter loser. Nice follow-up work, eh?