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With less than two weeks before Election Day, Harrisburg mayoral candidate Linda Thompson spent part of Friday fielding questions about her finances.

Thompson called a news conference at Loveship, the headquarters of her nonprofit organization, a day after being interviewed about her finances and a failed Loveship project.

Thompson has said that she voluntarily left a job with the Urban League of Metropolitan Harrisburg and received unemployment compensation. After leaving the job in late 1999, she enrolled in an entrepreneurial employment program and was allowed to receive unemployment for a year while she received training, she said. She used the money to open Loveship and pay rent, she added.

She and her campaign manager, James Ellison, did not respond to a detailed list of follow-up questions e-mailed to them. She also did not respond to a request for a copy of her resume or last year’s tax returns.

But records at the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, which handles discrimination claims, shed some more light on Thompson’s departure from the Urban League.

Shannon Powers, a spokeswoman for the commission, said that Thompson filed a complaint against the Urban League of Metropolitan Harrisburg on Dec. 8, 1999. The complaint alleges that Thompson was discharged on the basis of her gender. She also said that the terms and conditions of her employment and her wages were different from others’ based on her gender.

The commission started an investigation on Jan. 31, 2000, Powers said.

No public hearing was held, and nothing in the record indicates that Thompson filed a lawsuit against the Urban League, Powers said. The case was closed on Nov. 11, 2003, Powers said.

A check of the electronic database Lexis-Nexis, as well as a search of the Pennsylvania court system, does not show that Thompson ever filed a lawsuit against the Urban League.

Staff writer Barbara Miller contributed to this report.