Mfume basks in teacher support

Former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume was basking in the overwhelming endorsement of the state teachers union in the Democratic race for U.S. Senate, as Rep. Ben Cardin was haunted by actions he took on teacher pensions as House of Delegates speaker in the 1980s.

The largest labor organization in the state, the 64,000-member Maryland State Teachers Association, gave Mfume more than 80 percent of the vote at representative assembly held in Columbia on Saturday. “I was very pleased at the endorsement, because it represented months of work reaching out and talking to teachers,” Mfume said.