On today’s Al Mascitti Show on WDEL, featuring notable guest El Somnambulo, both a City Council member and a city pastor alleged that the Williams Administration budgeted $4 million that would go to a Southbridge church to help build a gymnasium. According to both Wilmington Councilman Michael Brown and Reverend Derrick Johnson, the church in question is the church of City Councilman Justen Wright.
According to Councilman Brown, council members became suspicious because the destination for the money was unspecified in the city budget, and that subsequent investigation determined that the money was scheduled to go to the church, and council removed the money from the budget.
Councilman Wright and Council President Theo Gregory had gotten into a previous confrontation over Wright’s allegation that Gregory had removed him from the Finance Committee.
While neither Brown nor Johnson mentioned the church in question, Wright’s bio lists his church affiliation as the Ezion Fair Baptist Church. One of its stated missions is ‘physical fitness’.
Anyone have anything more to add, other than the obvious ‘if this is true, then it’s a violation of the separation between Church and State’?