Caroline Simmons DCC primary slate accepts $2,000 from Jann Wenner who was booted off Rock and Roll Museum after saying Black and female musicians not “articulate enough” for book.

Michael Hyman heads the United campaign fund backing the Mayor Caroline Simmons slate in Tuesday’s ferocious Democratic city committee primary. Hyman, according to The Stamford Advocate, is dismayed that the opposing Responsive Government slate accepted a $5,000 contribution from Stamford Republican Joshua Esses, who serves on Stamford’s Board of Education.

Jann Wenner served on the Rock and Roll Museum board of directors until late last summer. He donated $2,000 to the Simmons slate, though he does not live in Stamford.

The Rolling Stone co-founder was removed from the board after telling the New York Times that no women were included in his book “The Masters” because “The people had to meet a couple criteria, but it was just kind of my personal interest and love of them. Insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level.”

Wenner included no Blacks because “you know, Stevie Wonder, genius, right? I suppose when you use a word as broad as ‘masters,’ the fault is using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean, they just didn’t articulate at that level,” he said. Wenner apologized during the furor that followed the publication of the Times interview plugging the white-men-only collection.

Wenner has been the subject of credible sexual harassment claims.

If it’s green and can be deposited in a bank, the Simmons slate will take it. That’’s the level it articulates at.

Published March 3, 2024.