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To: JakeStraw who wrote (2492)	6/20/2003 7:08:10 PM
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The skeletons and suits in Sharpton's closet The controversial political leader and Democratic presidential candidate delivers a pointed warning: If you attack me, you risk being sued. By Jake Tapper - SALON June 20, 2003 \| With the threat of a defamation lawsuit against an obscure GOP state representative from Michigan, the Rev. Al Sharpton officially gave the political and media worlds notice on Thursday: if you intend to write negative things about the activist and fledgling Democratic presidential candidate, you had better be certain that you have your facts straight. But it?s unclear whether Sharpton's team has as firm a hold on the ugly realities of his past as their threat would seem to indicate. Sharpton's attorney, Michael Hardy, told Salon on Thursday that Sharpton is serious about the lawsuit against Michigan state representative Marc Shulman, and will likely file it if Shulman doesn't apologize within the next month for the allegations he made in a letter to a fellow Michigan politician. Shulman, offended by Sharpton?s invitation to keynote a local African-American community dinner, cited actions and quotations attributed to Sharpton that, in his view, illustrated bigotry. They included seemingly anti-Semitic quotes by Sharpton from the 1991 Crown Heights affair where tensions between blacks and Hasidic Jews resulted in riots and a murder, as well as a reference to ?Socrates and them Greek homos? allegedly from a 1994 speech. Hardy acknowledged that the threatened lawsuit was just as much -- if not more so -- about firing a warning shot across the bow of those who may attempt to use Sharpton's controversial, occasionally demagogic past against him salon.com