The chairwoman of the Gray for Mayor campaign says she never gave cash payments to former mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown.
Brown has accused Lorraine Green of passing him cash-stuffed envelopes so he could stay on the campaign trail and keep up verbal attacks on then-Mayor Adrian Fenty. He also says Green and then-D.C. Council Chairman Vince Gray promised him a job in a future Gray administration for the same reason.
But on Friday during a D.C. Council hearing on Gray administration hiring decisions, Green denied both accusations, saying Brown was only promised an interview after he contacted her in late June to talk about the campaign. She said she broke contact with Brown in late November when he made the “delusional” demand that he be appointed as deputy mayor for finance. There is no and never has been such a position, Green noted.
Ward 3 Councilwoman Mary Cheh later in the hearing raised the issue of the alleged cash payments.
“There was no reason for me or anyone to pay him to stay in the race,” Green said, noting that Brown never said anything about leaving the race and that she found his attacks on Fenty “distasteful.”
“You never paid him any money, for any purpose?” Cheh countered.
“That’s correct,” Green said.
