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John Gaskin III will get his due process.

That bit of serendipity is apparent in the penultimate paragraph of a letter he received from national NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson on Thursday.

The letter suspends Gaskin as president of the St. Louis County Branch of the NAACP “pending further action by the NAACP Board of Directors.”

Johnson said he suspended Gaskin for his decision to offer the county NAACP’s support for legislation pending in the Missouri Legislature which would weaken Title IX protections for women on college campuses, and also for a conflict of interest in taking a paid consulting job from the nonprofit group Better Together or its campaign arm while asking fellow NAACP members to endorse the measure which could merge the city and the county.

Several black elected officials called for Gaskin’s resignation after the Post-Dispatch reported that Gaskin announced support for the ballot initiative at a news conference before letting both the NAACP and the public know that he was being paid by the sponsors of the proposal.