Joan Betts

I am posting from the same IP address. I do not know where you have been Bfrank but I see those posters on upper Connecticut Avenue, along Wisconsin Avenue, Western Avenue and I know Rees has a deal with Charles E. Smith & Company to give his campaign access to all their buildings which are normally off bounds for socilitations. About 40% of all voters live inside apartment buildings that are off limits to solicitors but Rees I know got a deal as my resident manager told me so. I am living in the real world Bfrank and just stating what I know to be a fact and not taking sides.

Your first lie was I am not Rees nor affiliated with him. Second lie is, you make accusations without checking out the facts. That computer store I spoke of is called Express Business Center. It is owned by the Carlo & Luna families who are Puerto Ricans. The biggest supporters of Rees are the 1,400 Hispanic voters in Ward 3 and his team of volunteers are Hispanics and Blacks from around DC. If you had been out and watched when the Reesists are on the campaign trail, then you would have seen this. People like you need to start accepting the fact that not everybody here is a Brooksist or Reesist but others like me who rather tell it as we really see it out there on the campaign trail if you want to call it that.

Golden Girl go ahead and pass that lie off as I am not Rees nor want to be but you are not you but one of the many aliases aligned with the Brooks camp as your writing style is so identical to the other aliases posting here. You need to go and check out the facts before you shoot off your mouth. Most are not buying this game that everybody who posts here that does not say what Brooks wants to hear is Rees. When you come to realize the foregoing then you will be better able to see who is coming at you but as long as you blind yourself that will hurt you. An honest person sees through the Brookist as I do just like I see the Reesist. I can walk out on the streets of our ward and I see nothing about Brooks but I see a hoard of stuff Rees has put out. That is reality...Start living Golden Girl because what I see is what voters see not what lies you want to spew out here in this small message board.

The following was posted on a national board for the elderly here in DC by Jonathan Rees --------------------------- No matter how much money you have in your campaign war chest, it does no good if it is not spent correctly. I looked carefully at the campaign finances of my chief protagonist Sam Brooks and this is what I found. Sam Brooks is currently unemployed and is renting an apartment to live in and uses it as his campaign headquarters. Despite the fact that he claims he has received $28k in campaign contributions, most of this will be going to pay the rent and incidentals on that apartment, his food and other essentials. If this figure remains constant, then about $20k of this amount will be directed to Brooks and his own upkeep between now and September 2006. This leaves $8k to pay his chair, treasurer and put to actual campaign promotions. My point here is, campaign contributions are meant to go for promoting a campaign not to be used by a candidate to pay her/his rent food and other personal things but our campaign finance laws are too loosely written. I am proud to say that 100% of my money has gone into campaign literature and my staff is made up of volunteers. This is what a campaign is all about. I am sure that all of my other rivals are running a very honest campaign because they are mature adults who are in it for the people they want to represent and not to feed their own mouths or egos. Also if this is any consolation, less than $1k of the money Brooks received came from contributors in Ward 3 (His own chair gave him $500). Most of it came from outside of DC and the DuPont Circle and Capitol Hill areas of DC but very little of it. To me, using campaign contributions for your own support of rent, utilities and food is dishonest.

I think most of you are not too smart or think you know everything but this may be due to the fact that you cannot figure things out. I can almost assure you that Rees had nothing to do with any of what you say. If you had taken the time to know Rees and his operations you might have found that he has a group of volunteers but specifically there is this woman who runs a computer store where people go in and rent a computer sort to say and it is located in the Mt. Pleasant area of DC. In this store is where all of the Reesist meet, go online and promote him. Again, Rees is smart enough not to get involved and I would bet all of these IP addresses belongs to that woman who is a strong supporter of Rees and her girlfriends. As for Rees dropping out. I doubt it as my sister who lives in the Quebec House said that some of the Reesist were delivering his flyer last night at her building and along Porter Street NW. All of you again are being outsmarted but as easily as you are deceiving others you are being deceived. I laugh at this in a way as this message board seems to enjoy attacking Rees but there are other boards out there attacking that other guy Brooks. This is politics at its best. If you really live in my ward then you know that there is nowhere you can go where you do not see campaign posters and literature belonging to Rees but you see nothing from Brooks! Rees and his group are always out there and you can see it daily but not Brooks. I am not taking sides but you cannot win a campaign from behind your computers as it is self evident that this message board is a bunch of Brooksist trying to bash Rees but as long as Rees has been for six months and continues to flood our ward with nice material, he will have an advantage. I know one family in Glover Park that is very rich, well connected and they hate Sam Brooks and his campaign chair Tamela Gordon big time. I do not know if they are behind any candidate but they hate Brooks because they did not hide that when they had a reception at their home for Linda Cropp for Mayor. When Brooks ran last time, they worked against him. Just like all of you claim not to be Sam Brooks and maybe so, I can assure you Rees is none of these names you see but it is probably his biggest support and her friends.