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Maybe Rees withdrew it all because too many people were checking his references and that caused him some problems with his employer, school and so on. I retired from Shedd Foods. You know the butter people and we often would get way too many calls checking references that we had to put a halt to it with certain employees over the years. I would suspect such was the case with Rees withdrawing but cannot say as I am not him and do not know why. I am just guessing. Did you or others start calling his employers and schools? If you all did then that may have been what triggered it.

Again, what right do any of you have to know how many wives, children and so on a candidate has had? I think when you demand such, you are crossing a line of decency as such a questions should never be demanded. This is just my point of view. I have seen Rees twice with his wife when shopping at the Safeway on Wisconsin Avenue but never accompanied by any children. Other than this, I know nothing about his family nor would I go so far as to ask him as that would be disrepectful. Where did you go to school?

Just because someone runs for public office does not give voters a license to demand that candidates have to open up and divulge their entire life history as that goes way beyond any sense of decency and anyone who expects such should be ignored and when you go out of your way to look for dirt on a person, you show yourself to be just as dirty as the dirt you seek. People need to grow up and remember that you are not without sin.

Bfrank you clearly have a bias toward this man that clouds your judgment. I have to agree with Rees based upon what you posted. Rees is merely saying that judges need to be more human and accept the fact that they are no better than those they often judge. So why do you call this incoherent rambling? It is very coherent! Furthermore, I would venture to say that a good percentage of the people out there might agree with Rees. To me Bfrank, this is a matter of opinion and does not reflect anything other than an opinion on your part, my part and that is what politics is all about; namely, we will never always agree on some issues. I hold no biases toward any of the candidates as I cannot vote for them. As for DCist, I would not read it as it is geared more for people on the far far left.

Truthseeker, I am not Jonathan Rees and your reply to my challenge shows me you are incapable of meeting the challenge and might benefit from some form of counseling.

If we would know your real name, only God knows what we would learn about you. Thus I guess you chose to remain annonymous to hide an ugly past maybe far worse than the candidates you bad mouth.

Do you really think Orange has a chance of winning? I think not.

I challenge everyone to start talking about the issues that are before the voters of ward 3, the stances taken by the candidates and why they are good or bad instead of all this trash that seems to have been posted here for months.

Bfrank, have you ever written to Mr. Rees to get that information or talk to people who know him well?

Truthseeker seems to want to feel important and (s)he is not. Truthseeker is a gossip monger at best and I fail to see a single posting from Truthseeker that has ever attacked any candidate based upon any flaw on a position taken. No, Truthseeker is incapable of attacking the candidates on the issues so (s)he resorts to the nastiest of nasty and that is, attacking people on a personal level which is typical of a mentally deficient person. Maybe somebody should expose the real Truthseeker who is living in a fantasy world.

My point of view as a 67 year old man is, voters in DC do not take seriously what they see on list servers. What I am speaking of is what voters will or will not do and that is, they will ignore the list servers and vote based upon the platform of a candidate. Both the candidates at issue are very well known and neither of them are anti-gay and thus I suspect voters will see this as an act by someone out to injure Rees. Where were you living in 1990? If in DC then surely you would remember the bitter case in the news where Rees battled it out with Daro Realty over their discriminating against gays in housing. Thus people who know Rees will never believe any claim he is anti-gay. People who know Rees know he would not misrepresent himself. Have you ever gone to his job to see if he actually works where he says he does? I have. On the other end, Brooks has lied about having a sucessful internet business but the truth there is, he was creating websites for others while living at home with his parents and folded that business due to its failure. Yet, who cares about that? I do not. How old are you? I would say that 70% of the voters in our ward are 50 and up and they are not about to hand a young guy with little experience the job of councilman. All I have said is, Rees has a far better shot of winning than Brooks but I did not say I think he will be the winner. After reading all that I have today, it is clear many of you did a very lousy job of investigating facts and really went too far in your efforts to bad mouth. The private lives of the candidates is taboo in modern day politics and when all of you start making issue of it you turn people off like me and that is why maybe others might think you are taking sides. Everybody needs to attack the issues and the weakness in this respect of each candidate.

A few friends of mine said that there was this Democrat vs Democrat bashing each other here on DC Pages so I just had to join up to see it for myself. Now I have seen it and it is dumb as can be. Let me see if I have this right. We have this guy named Rees and his friends at war with this guy named Brooks and his friends and each is trying to see who can bad mouth the other more. Am I right? The people who hate Rees make issue of where Rees works, went to school, the number of wives and children he has and other matters. Since none of these matters are real issues in local politics and DC voters have in the past elected ex-convicts, wife beaters and drug addicts, I doubt anybody other than a few really care but will judge this man on the policies he wishes to pursue. The people who hate Brooks make issue of his lack of experience in life, his cuddling up to wealthy gays for political contributions and a few other matters. Again since this is DC, nobody is really going to care and will judge this man also on the policies he wishes to pursue. Now let us take it to the next level and that is, what are these two really doing and saying? Both are already out on the campaign trail but this guy Rees seems to have a leg up as he has been out longer and has covered more territory that this guy Brooks. Both have presented their stance on issues and what they want to do. In this respect, this guy Rees is clearly more detailed on what he wants to do than is this guy Brooks. Now let us throw in a known fact. That fact is as it concerns DC political races since the 1970 s, once a person has run for political office and did not win on their first outting but run again, the stats show that they usually perform worse the second time out. This fact if it holds up in the 2006 races says that this guy Brooks will not win and perform worse than his first time out. This leaves us with this guy Rees. In my opinion, he has a better shot of winning than this guy Brooks but only if he can muster up the ability to reach more voters and more often that the other candidates running. I will trust that the people on this message board supporting both guys will disagree with me and come with their same old arguments why their man is better and the other is a royal jerk. Guess what, I do not want to hear it as the voters will not care but see any attack on either of these guys as not being credible but coming from loyalists of the candidate.