THE REV. JIM JONES AND THE SNEAKERS

[Psycho]

THE REV. JIM JONES AND THE SNEAKERS

 

 

Mayor Fenty and his followers remind me of the Rev. Jim Jones of Guyana and his followers.

 

By this I mean, the people of DC are so short-sighted that they quickly forget:

 

That Fenty’s current proposal to fix the schools is identical to the plan that Williams proposed where Fenty rejected it and called it non workable;

 

That the various newspapers including the Post, Times and others reported often that Fenty was a Lone Ranger on the city council, at odds with his colleagues even to the point of coming to blows with Evans, Brown and Catania, and out of step with reality;

 

That Fenty’s votes on the city council were often to the detriment of the people of the District of Columbia;

 

That Fenty rarely proposed legislation when compared to his colleagues;

 

That Fenty’s claim of being constituent minded was superficial in that he was not, and lost staffers who got frustrated with his lack of seeing the Devil in the details like Joseph Goeings; and

 

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Yet, despite all the faults pointed out by the media and others about Mayor Fenty and the short sightedness of voters, DC voters like the followers of Rev. Jim Jones have lined up behind Fenty, have bought his phoniness, have put on their Fleet Feet sneakers for this four year run to reach pie in the sky, and I must wonder what all of phony The Fentyists will do when he fails, and he will fail as he cannot achieve his goals with the budget and other constraints he faces.

 

It is sickening to see people like Jack Evans, Jim Graham and Marion Barry who never liked Fenty, never got along with him and often acted in opposition to him now suck up to him in such shameful manner.

 

What will all of these Fentyists do when Fenty fails as mayor? Hopefully they will all line up, look to the sky for that saving space ship that will take the off, drink that cup of political cyanide and give DC back to the level headed voters still out there.