BLM Delivers Ultimatum to Sen. Whitehouse (D-RI), Cut Ties w/ All White Country Club
(Note: This anon is from the area. It's a beach club, not a country club. Official name is Spouting Rock Beach Association. Locals call it "Bailey's Beach". Also see below re: tennis teacher from the same beach club busted for child pornography in March 2019).
"Black Lives Matter has given Rhode Island Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse clear instruction to cut all ties with the Newport-based Bailey's Beach Club, or they will cause considerable irritation in his day-to-day life.
"We'll go to his club, we'll go to his office, we'll go to his home – wherever we need to go," said Mark Fisher, one of BLM's chapter directors. "This is an issue that's not going to go away and Senator Whitehouse needs to address it, he needs to take it on."
Several weeks ago, Whitehouse was accused of being a member of the elite club that serves only white members. Following an initial interaction with a reporter, during which Senator Whitehouse accepted the premise of the accusation, he later said, "I then checked the assertion and was assured that, first, the assertion was wrong, there is diversity in the club membership and there are non-white club members; and second, that improving diversity remains a priority and an active task for the club’s new board."
Whatever the senator's personal membership status at Bailey's maybe, his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, is one of the three largest shareholders at the beach club.
"If he thinks we're just going to forget about it, if he thinks that it's going to get swept under the rug – it's not … This club is a proven racist club with exclusive ties to supremacy and exclusion, and that’s something that’s not gonna be tolerated by me, by my associates, my affiliates or my organization," said Fisher.
Though Whitehouse claims the club is on "the right side of pushing for improvements," he recently admitted that is a member of a separate Rhode Island sailing club that suffers from a similar lack of diversity."
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Tennis teacher from the same beach club busted for possession of child pornography:
NEWPORT — A tennis instructor at a Newport beach club, and former part-time youth tennis coach at a private school, has been charged with possessing child pornography, according to a news release from the state police.
Thomas E. Gallagher, 75, of 39 Farewell St., Apartment 109, was arrested Friday and arraigned at Second Division District Court. Magistrate Patrick O’Neill released Gallagher on $50,000 personal recognizance with special bail conditions of no internet access and no contact with minors, according to the news release.
Gallagher has been a tennis instructor at the Spouting Rock Beach Association, also known as Bailey’s Beach Club, for the last 15 years, according to the release. He was a substitute teacher and part-time youth tennis coach at Saint Michael’s Country Day School in Newport from 1997 to 2004, and also was previously a youth tennis coach for the Newport Recreation Department.
The investigation is ongoing; anyone with further information is encouraged to call the state police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, (401) 921-1170.
https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20190308/newport-tennis-instructor-former-coach-charged-with-possessing-child-pornography
Spouting Rock Beach Association:
https://spoutingrockbeach.com