Black Republican Manifests Typical Pathological Personality

Claude Allen, a Black Republican and anti-gay religious conservative who used to be a spokesperson for Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), and who was nominated by President Bush to a federal judgeship in 2004, resigned as Bush's Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy (a.k.a. Chief Domestic Policy Adviser) on February 9 to "spend more time with his family."

Now the real reason for Claude Allen's sudden departure from the employ of the Bush administration has been revealed.

Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Retail Theft Unit arrested a man yesterday for a continuing retail theft scheme. Claude Alexander Allen, age 45, of the 7200 block of Cliff Pine Drive in Gaithersburg, was charged with theft scheme over $500 and theft over $500. He was released on his own recognizance. On January 2, 2006, a Target store Loss Prevention Manger observed an unknown man enter the store located at 25 Grand Corner Avenue in Gaithersburg. He was observed in the store with an empty Target bag in a shopping cart. The man was then seen selecting merchandise throughout the store and placing items in the Target bag. He put additional items in his cart. The man then went to guest services where he produced a receipt and received a refund for the items he had just selected from the store shelves. After receiving the refund he left the store without paying for the additional merchandise in the shopping cart. He was apprehended by the store employee.

Please note that Claude Allen was the most highly paid civil servant employee in the White House at the time of his alleged pre-meditated kleptomanic spree. His federal compensation (paid for by your taxes and mine!) was $161, 000 per year, identical to "Bush's Brain" Karl Rove, erstwhile Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers and National Security Adviser Stephen Headley.

Also note that Claude Allen's previous claim to fame was his insistence that Stop AIDS San Francisco and other AIDS service organizations be repeatedly audited for using federal funds to produce explicitly sex-positive and gay-supportive HIV prevention materials.

Mad Professah has blogged repeatedly about the peculiar phenomena of Black Republicans, but the case of Claude Allen is a truly pathological example.