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I believe that the current policy of the DC Government not to enforce US Immigration laws is a deliberate act on the part of the Mayor and City Council of the District of Columbia to provide local industry with cheap and illegal labor at the expense of jobs for American born citizens. The so called liberal, caring mindset for these so called poor immigrants just trying to get a better life is a fraud by our Mayor and City Council who don’t care about these people but only care about making available cheap and plentiful labor for their major campaign contributors. Mayor Fenty and the DC City Council should allow the MPD to take into custody and contact ICE any person they have evidence of being in the USA/DC illegally and if they refuse to do such, then the US Congress should with-hold monies from the District.

How often has this happened to you? You apply for a job in the local newspaper, online listing or elsewhere where it states “immediate hire”, you don’t hear anything for 2-4 weeks, after 2-4 weeks you are finally invited in for an interview and you go. That “immediate hire” and waiting 2-4 weeks before you even interview has you scratching your head. You have just entered into the real world of politics of business. After you finish your interview you ask how soon it will be before they make a decision and you are told a week or two. A week or two goes by and you hear nothing. Another week or two goes by and you still hear nothing. Now since the first day you saw that ad, a whole 4-6 weeks has passed by making that “immediate hire” seem like the best lie told. Finally you decide to pick up the phone to call to see the status of the job but you can’t reach the person in the HR Dept who can answer that question. Days later you get this letter in the mail that tells you that they decided after all not to fill that position! What the **&^^** you say to yourself. Well, don’t feel bad. In the current DC job market, very few employers will hire anyone for at least 4-8 weeks after posting a job, and 1 of every 3 jobs posted and you apply/interview for will in fact never be filled. What is causing this? Right, stupid employers whose eyes are bigger than their stomachs. Many employers in DC are not savvy enough to know when there is a need to create or fill a job and they post job ads without thinking it all out first. That job that disappeared was the result that the employer came to realize that they can get someone already inside to do the work; hiring a friend of a friend, they really don’t have the money to pay a salary or they don’t know what they are doing. This problem is worse in DC than in any of the other top 25 cities in America. This employment problem seems to be worse around political cities like Washington, DC and the capitals of our states.

DIGGING THEIR OWN POLITICAL GRAVES Some of our elected officials who not expected to do well or serve another term started practicing to dig their own political graves when they met at the Navy Yard Metro Station for ground breaking ceremonies today.

Why I Oppose DC Statehood and Congressional Vote Jonathan R. Rees, jrrees2006@verizon.net I have received from readers of themail questions about whether I am anti-DC and opposed to statehood and a vote in Congress. My answer to these readers is: the reason I oppose statehood and a Congressional vote is rooted in the corruption of the government of the District of Columbia, from the Office of the Mayor to the city council and across to the heads and management of many agencies of the District of Columbia. DC is a modern day Tammany Hall: E.G. Mary Cheh’s fraud with OCF over free and/or reduced rent on her campaign headquarters and Fenty’s hidden deals to allow developers to land grab. DC will never realize its dream until the federal government abolish Home Rule, abolish DC government as we know it, and place all DC governmental agencies under their federal counterparts to weed out the corruption and incompetence. Maybe fifteen to twenty years from now, we can start all over again with a new DC government with a mayor, council and release the agencies back to local control. Hopefully this will set the record straight for all who wondered. Failed Promises in themail, January 14, 2007 Dear Promise Keepers: The effort to blame an elected school board for the problems of the District of Columbia Public Schools is sadly misplaced. The city's public schools haven't been under the control of an elected school board for the past ten years. The Control Board replaced the elected school board with an Emergency Transitional Board of Trustees in 1996. The Control Board's promise was that a clear line of authority and a strong leader, General Julius W. Becton, would ensure rapid improvement of the schools. Becton's 1997 report, "Moving Toward an Exemplary System: A Report on the First Year's Efforts to Reform DC Public Schools" (http://www.dcpswatch.com/dcps/9711.htm), makes for much more instructive reading a decade later than it did when it was released. What reading it now teaches is not to believe promises of quick and easy school reform brought about by a clear line of authority and a strong leader. In 2000, Mayor Williams proposed a charter amendment to replace the elected school board with a mixed mayorally appointed and elected school board. He promised that that would make the mayor directly responsible for the schools and give him a clear line of authority to improve them. The motto of the campaign to reduce the number of school board members and replace half the elected members with mayorally appointed members was "Accountability, Leadership, Change." What that experience taught is not to believe mayoral promises that mayoral leadership and accountability will change the schools. Now that we are scheduled to return to an all-elected school board at the next general election, Mayor Fenty is determined to prove that he has learned nothing from two failed school board takeovers in the past decade. His solution for the schools? Yet another school board takeover, yet another attempt to blame a democratically elected school board -- which we haven't had for the past decade -- for the problems of the schools, and yet another set of phony promises that if he can just eliminate democratic impediments and replace them with a clear line of authority and a strong leader, he'll improve the schools rapidly and easily. What's amazing is that anyone who has been around for the past ten years would consider being fooled yet again a third time. Council Chairman Vincent Gray has scheduled a series of city council hearings on Mayor Fenty's takeover plan, starting this Thursday. The press release is at http://www.dcpswatch.com/mayor/070112.htm. Mayor Fenty's 100-day action plan is at http://www.dcwatch.com/mayor/070111.htm -- I'd welcome your comments on it. Gary Imhoff themail@dcwatch.com Ten Reasons Why I Oppose Fenty's School Takeover Crystal Sylvia, crystalsylvia@yahoo.com As a DCPS parent and DCPS social worker I have experienced first hand the overwhelming problems that plague the public school system in DC. As a community activist I have participated over the years in the fight for real reforms to improve our schools. Below are ten reasons why I oppose Mayor Fenty's plan to takeover our schools. 1) While campaigning for the mayoral primary, Fenty never uttered a word about taking over the schools to voters nor did he include it in his education platform. It was only after the primary that he shared his plan. Fenty's landslide victory was a mandate for change not a recycling of Williams failed legislative proposals. Why did Fenty hide his intentions during the primary race? 2) This plan is undemocratic in two ways. Firstly, since Fenty did not include a school takeover in his campaign, he does not have a mandate to take such drastic steps without going to DC residents. Not only should we have public hearings as Council Chair Gray has scheduled, but the takeover should also be put before voters as a referendum since it radically changes the governance structure of the schools. 3) Secondly, the takeover is undemocratic because Fenty is asking Congress to change our city's home rule charter to allow the takeover. He is doing this while at the same time planning a march to Congress to demand statehood. Fenty is insisting that he is only going to Congress to prevent a long drawn out divisive debate on the issue. The takeover undermines democracy and our fight for statehood. 4) The takeover will mean one more layer of bureaucracy in DC Public Schools. Fenty will have authority over the superintendent and the council will have line item control (micromanaging authority) over the DCPS budget. This type of top-down approach is already one of the main criticisms of DCPS by parents and teachers. Under Fenty's plan, those who know best how to improve the system (parents, teachers and students themselves) will be even further removed from any real decision making power. The takeover just adds one more layer at the top. 5) Let's look at alternatives to a takeover like showing more support of Janey's Master Education Plan and Master Facilities Plan. Janey has also recommended that a moratorium be placed on new charter schools which are draining money and resources out of the school system while at the same time performing no better than DCPS. 6) It is quite alarming that the people Fenty has chosen to spearhead his education reform efforts, Victor Reinoso and Neil Albert, are very closely tied with the Federal City Council (FCC). For those who may not be aware, the FCC operates like a shadow government of Washington, DC. It pushes pro-business legislation and development in DC and leverages tremendous power among our elective officials. Many people are rightly speculating the possibility of a land grab of DCPS property by developers. 7) Ever since Fenty's announcement of a takeover, all of the focus on DCPS has been overwhelmingly negative. The media, city leaders, and DC residents are only discussing how DCPS is dysfunctional. While in no way can one deny the huge problems that exist in DCPS, it is important to recognize that there are a lot of great things happening as well. It is very demoralizing to students, school staff, and parents to constantly hear only the bad. It makes you just want to give up hope. 8) As a parent who chose to run for mayor and prioritize his efforts on improving public schools, it is very disheartening that Fenty also chooses to send his two children to private school. Almost all of the people in power (mayor, city council members and school board members) do not have a child enrolled in DCPS, yet they claim to know what is best. 9) The takeover will be yet another turnover of leadership in DCPS. The instability of leadership within DCPS has been one of the main obstacles to true reform. The takeover will mean new initiatives to replace the "old" initiatives, which are only a couple of years old. Even though Fenty is going to keep Janey for now, the leadership and direction of DCPS is going to change with the takeover. So while we are waiting for this to happen DCPS is being paralyzed- why bother planning for the future when the takeover will create so much change. 10) Fenty should use all of his energy and resources supporting and fixing the problems of other DC agencies that he has control over that directly impact our students. Major improvements are needed in the Department of Mental Health, juvenile services, substance abuse services, Department of Human Services and with improving our students and their family's access to quality health care and safe affordable housing. All too often DCPS is saddled with the responsibility of trying to educate children whose families are in crisis or are in desperate need of support services. School Reform 2007 Kathryn A. Pearson-West, wkpw3@aol.com Not every citizen in the District of Columbia (including native and longtime Washingtonians that may not be on the active front line for statehood or may not have been involved in the civil rights movement) is ready to abdicate their rights to permit a takeover of the school system by another elected unproven body. Certainly no one wants to be an impediment to responsible, positive change or wants to rain on anyone's parade; however, not all voters are willing to rubber-stamp an initiative to alter the home rule charter without going through the legal process and we do not expect our leadership to change the rules to enable them to do so without our advice and consent. It would seem that any major changes to the District of Columbia's home rule charter should be brought to the citizens in earnest through a referendum and not just through public hearings where the results can be open to interpretation. It would be presumptuous of elected officials to think that because voters trusted them enough to elect them that citizens are ready to give them carte blanche to change the structure of elected government as they see fit. A mandate to win is not a mandate to dictate or a license to amass more power and influence without permission of the electorate. Everybody is not so sure that reducing another elected representative body to an advisory panel is the best thing. In fact, elected and advisory seem to be an oxymoron in many respects. Mayors Williams and Barry were not granted this authority and now the citizens are expected to grant a new mayoral administration in its infancy this power. Washington, DC, is a unique jurisdiction and maybe in a city with limited democracy, an elected school board with power and independence is the right structure It is mind-boggling to see that in 2007 elected officials are willing to circumvent the home rule amendment process by appealing to the powers to be in Congress to make it convenient to sidestep a vote by the citizens in the nation's capital. Historically, Congress has long wanted to make changes to our city with the mere waving of their hand (or five hundred plus hands) and often has wanted to use the District of Columbia as its personal laboratory to try out their pet projects not implemented back in their home districts. There has long been resistance by citizens and city leadership to keep Congress out of our governing affairs, whether they be Republicans or Democrats. Now, with the blessings of a Republican mayor from New York, we are expected to be ready to bypass the home rule charter to get a quick, convenient fix in the name of education for our children. With all due respect, that is an ingenuous proposition. At least give the semblance of respect for the Home Rule Charter and citizens' rights by ratifying any vote to change the charter via a referendum. The council could still impose its will by overturning it like it has done with some citizen initiatives. Note that when the initiative guaranteeing housing for the homeless became a fiasco, the citizens overturned it through a referendum/initiative. They were smart enough to do what they needed to do. Why not trust them now with a referendum? [Finished online at http://www.dcwatch.com/themail/2007/07-01-14.htm#west]

I WANT TO BE THE DIRECTOR OF DC OFFICE OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE Why do I want to be the Director of the District of Columbia Office of Campaign Finance? Well, I can earn around $125, 000.00 a year or more and do little for it. I can give myself bonuses and other nifty perks all at the expense of the tax payers. I can have cable TV in my office and watch my favorite soap operas while I lay on my plush sofa in my office. I can approve my own sick leave with pay, even when I am not sick but being photographed shopping at a mall in Montgomery County by activists trying to expose my dishonesty. I can get DC Government owned and paid cell phones and give some to my children to use. I want to spend the next fifteen years not doing my job, never really finding fault with anyone other than my enemies and amass a dismal record of ineffectiveness, bogus reports and wheeling and dealing so I can further enrich myself and family. Yes, I can do favors for sitting politicos and be assured that my job will be secure even when the DC Inspector General and US Attorney recommends that I be terminated and/or disciplined as my political buddies will stand up for me by attacking my critics to detract the public from the reality of my nefarious ways. Yes, my crooked soul is well suited for service to my government of the District of Columbia. Recently, NBC said that Google was the best company to work for with all its perks but if you have a crooked soul, then DC Government is your best bet. Indeed, I want to be the Director of the District of Columbia Office of Campaign Finance!

AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY In order for Mayor Fenty to take over the DC Public Schools, he will have to convince the US Congress to amend the DC Home Rule Act as I have been saying hundreds of times on different message boards. The US Congress had a very definite reason in mind when they decided not to let our Mayor or City Council have such control of our schools; namely, not to allow our schools to become politicized and its leaders shaking in their boots not knowing what the political winds will be from month to month. This coming Thursday January 18, 2007, the DC City Council will begin the process of holding hearings on Mayor Fenty’s plan to take control of our schools. I have to ask, what will the cost of all of this be to the tax payers? If we are determined to allow our mayor to seize control of our schools, wouldn’t our efforts and money be better spent on convincing the US Congress to change our home rule act to allow it rather than have these costly steps in between? Our school issue is my number one pet peeve in that, I have to ask where did all the money we paid in taxes go that was designated via the budgets for keeping our schools over the years up to par; Why do our businesses and individual have to pay a second time to bring our schools up to par; and Why has there not be council hearings held to bring those who misappropriated to justice! The voters of DC have been sitting back on their sofas like zombies while never speaking up about the corruption of our school board and the administration of the DC Public Schools until now after 25 years of such. When I came to DC in 1979 our schools were already falling apart. Maybe it is time for the Feds to step in and seize back control of DC as the corruption all round seems to get worse not better.

DC JOB MARKET NOT SO VIBRANT We often hear that DC has a very vibrant job market but this is proving to be a very deceptive claim. DC actually has one of the most unstable job markets in the United States with around 36% of all jobs being temporary, part-time and without any benefits with the legal industry being the most unstable industry to work in, in that, the average worker does not last even one year but floats around from law firm to law firm who really only want a temporary work force on a case by case basis. Maybe this is why the likes of Shakespeare, Jesus, Mohammed and even Buddha warned us to beware of the lawyers! A careful analysis of the DC job market shows that 40% of all jobs listed are done through employment agencies/recruiters; these jobs through such institutions are not permanent nor intended to be. The only stable jobs in DC are with the government. NBC News has reported that in the 1950’s we could expect to have only one job in our life-time, in the 1970’s it was raised to 1.5 jobs, but in 2006 that figure was raised to 7 jobs in our life-time. What is making DC a very volatile job market with little security is people like Mayor Fenty and our DC City Council (mainly greedy lawyers) who have passed plantation style labor laws that allow employers to abuse workers not just in job security, pay but in other rights whereby even our neighboring jurisdictions of Maryland and Virginia offer more job protection and security than does DC. Amazing, with DC claiming to be this politically correct, liberal and progressive jurisdiction, our labor laws are some of the worse in the United States of America and even worse than those southern states we like to bash for being so backward. The more we elect lawyers as our mayor and city council members, the worse it actually gets for workers. Things were better when our executive and legislative braches of government saw among its ranks school teachers, farmers, candy store owners, accountants, doctors but things started getting worse in the USA and definitely in DC once lawyers made up 80% of our elected officials. In DC, there is an assurance that minority parties like Republicans, Green and Independents have a chance of getting elected because of the strong-hold Democrats have. Maybe the US Congress should add to that that only 50% of our elected leaders can be lawyers and others should be allowed in. The insecurity that may exist with your job was created by the DC City Council and our mayors whose campaigns have been funded by those who want to oppress your dignity and (job) security and until we send lawyers packing and give others a chance, your unemployment check is a lot closer than you think while those who caused this insecurity are collecting a $115,000.00 a year pay check for their part-time efforts.

CRIME DOES PAY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Recently, I made a statement to the Office of the United States Attorney that the DC Office of Campaign Finance does not have any qualified or trained investigators or a CPA who is experienced in campaign finance auditing. Thus DC OCF is not currently staffed with qualified people to do the job they are charged with. Add to that, a previous finding by the DC Inspector General that the DC OCF is riddled with corruption in the form of enriching itself, tendering favors to elected officials and more: E.g: [ http://www.dcwatch.com/govern/ig030522b.htm ] For the past year the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has conducted an investigation under the supervision of the U.S. Attorney's Office concerning allegations that executive-level officials of the District of Columbia Office of Campaign Finance (OCF) and the Board of Elections and Ethics (BOEE) have used their positions improperly to enrich themselves at the expense of District of Columbia taxpayers. In addition, my Office has conducted an inquiry into claims that a pattern exists of selective enforcement of campaign finance laws by OCF in order to shield certain elected officials from potential sanctions or embarrassment as a result of public disclosure of violations. Other allegations include the failure and/or refusal by OCF management to notify agencies with appropriate jurisdiction when OCF auditors found evidence of criminal violations, Hatch Act violations, and the failure to report income which is subject to federal and D.C. income taxes. This letter is intended to provide an overview of our investigative efforts and to inform you of the resistance and political pressure from certain D.C. council members that we have experienced in conducting our inquiry. and our elected officials know that they can break the law and get away with it. In a recent and high profile matter of Councilman Jack Evans, it was concluded publicly that he had done no wrong after being accused of misgivings for over twelve years in a final report, although an earlier, published report by DC OCF did find wrong-doing until William Jarvis went in and twisted some arms, called in favors and so on. Jarvis wrote in part the final report which DC OCF signed off on. (Jarvis had evidence/knowledge of official and unofficial misconduct of OCF officials and used it to get what he wanted out of the OCF) Former DC Inspector General Charles Maddox was viciously attacked for his honesty by former DC City Councilman Vincent Orange for his report as Maddox stepped on a sacred cow; namely, DC OCF which is the DC City Council’s means to violate campaign finance laws, keep challengers in the election process at bay and never face penalties for it civilly or criminally. This is just an example of why those who do wrong inside DC Government are rarely brought to justice because those who have the ability to do such are threatened to be exposed for wrongs they have done. The only power we have in DC to break down the wall of corruption is the Office of the United States Attorney and its investigative arm, the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As an activist for clean government, I have learned over the years that the best source to get to the truth are unhappy DC Government employees who have been unreasonably abused by their superiors, denied advancement and more. Yet, I think even journalists already know this and most of the time, this avenue of information is usually quite accurate. It is said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believe that the corruption in DC Government will not end until either the U.S. Attorney starts slamming these people more often or the U.S. Congress abolishes “Home Rule” and dissolve the office of the mayor, city council and places all DC agencies under their federal counter-part. Until the foregoing is done, all of us who contribute to “TheMail” and other message boards will have a deep well of grievances to talk about.

Ever since I entered into the world of politics, I have found more critics than supporters and I attribute that to the fact that way too many people are out of touch with the reality of their political environment. Without disclosing names sort to say, I got an email from a gent who works for DC Government at the Reeves Center, and he said, that he had at one time put me on the same plateau as that trouble maker Dorothy Brizill who is everywhere being a pain to everyone but after time, he now feels that he was wrong about Dorothy and understands that her heart is with the people and “I” am starting to appear to be the same. This same gent added that he voted for Fenty but before Fenty was sworn in, he started believing from all that he was seeing; Fenty is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and his real agenda is not with the average Washingtonian, but he uses that so called caring for all to mask his real agenda to have what he will do benefit the upper crust of DC. He said what turned him around about my person has been my public crusade to expose Council Member Mary Cheh for fraud on her OCF filings but specifically, he printed out all of her OCF filings and saw that I was right; namely, Cheh claims to have paid only $3,000.00 to PN Hoffman Company in total for that spacious campaign headquarters at the corner of Davenport and Wisconsin Ave for her six month stay there whereby he visited and realized NO WAY – Cheh is not telling the truth behind that low rent nobody else could have gotten unless the landlord was trying to buy favors. It is an email like the one I speak of that makes me ask what does it really take for people to stop living in a fantasy world, be so gullible to sweet talkers and start seeing our leaders for what they really are or are out to do? To often here on “TheMail” and elsewhere we debate the smaller issues but lose sight of the bigger picture and are clueless to the underlying reasons why are leaders are doing as they are: E.G. Allegations that Vincent Gray is not really behind Adrian Fenty on the school take over and other nik naks. This same gent said that he is grateful for people like Dorothy and her husband Gary along with a few others in the city who are not afraid to tell it like it is because without them, DC would be clueless about what is really happening as the local media often knows the truth but refuses to report it because their editors do not want to offend or admit they made a mistake in endorsing said official. In sum, I wonder how many people out there are grateful for people like Dorothy but have not come forward and said – Thank you Dorothy!

THE TWO FACES OF ADRIAN FENTY Mayor Fenty speaks of change but forgets that he was a part of our problems for over six (6) years and actually stood in the way of progress that former Mayor Williams attempted to achieve. This is why I have no respect for Mayor Fenty because much of what he is now preaching he previously denounced as not workable. The fervor in DC over Fenty reminds me of the same fervor Germany had for Hitler and all his promises for better days. The people of DC or at least the ones who voted for Fenty are either downright stupid, have a very poor memory, did not do their home work on Fenty or were just impressed with his sweet talk. I think a year or two from now, the people of DC will realize the big mistake they made in electing Fenty and they will think back on what Mayor Williams said: "Fenty is not ready to be mayor".

I owe Martin Austermuhle an apology. I accused him of being pinko, communist sissy. Just learned he is no longer a communist as he was kicked out of the party in 2004 for non-payment of dues. Sorry Martin.

The DC Office of Attorney General is the weakest AG office in the USA because of the presence of the federal government where most needed functions of major civil and most criminal matters are handled by the US Attorney. The DC AG has been reduced to defending DC from lawsuits, some family related matters, bringing civil actions against businesses for infractions and opinions. In the total scheme, DC is left vulnerable and must look to the Feds. It is this weak state the Feds have put DC in why DC is more prone to businesses getting away with so much and why people living in the burbs like doing business here such as sleazy landlords, shcyster finance companies and others. It seems that the Feds did not trust DC to handle it own affairs if you look at the limits placed on DC by the Home Rule Act which leaves a lot of protective gaps.

I am inclined to allow Robert Bobb to make the choices Luke as I think he is the best qualified person to pick our superintendent and to assist in adminsitering policies and programs.

UNADDRESSED CORRUPTION AT THE DCPS I have always held that District tax payers were the victim of their tax dollars ear marked for keeping our schools up-to-date never being spent on what they were intended for, but purposely misappropriated. This has been true for the past twenty years. In other words, corruption at our DC Public Schools has run rampant for two decades and there has not been a single outcry from any of our mayors or our city council members over it. To the contrary, all have turned a blind eye to it and have only offered to raise taxes to get done what we have already paid for. I am not in favor of Mayor Fenty taking over our schools as he will make the situation worse. Yet, Fenty and many council candidates deceived voters into voting for them over the school issue knowing that the odds that the US Congress will hand it over to them is as likely as I winning the Powerball Lottery. There is/was good cause why the US Congress did not want our mayor or city council to have such authority when they set down the DC Home Rule Act. The DC School Board has done a lousy job of over-seeing the administrators of our schools including Victor Reinoso, Fenty’s choice for Deputy Mayor for Education. Reinoso has been all mouth and no action just like Fenty. Until we weed out those crooks over in administration at the DCPS, clean house among our school board members and our mayor and city council stop looking the other way and lying to voters as to the real cause and solution to our school problem, nothing will really change!

I SEE STUPID DC VOTERS What shocks me most about the people of DC especially among the better educated ones is the fact that they so blindly voted for Adrian Fenty for mayor knowing that he only threw out ideas of things to do, but he never offered up any plan(s) to get them done. It seems that everyone from Gary Imhoff when he wrote January 3, 2007: (The news from the new city administration begins tomorrow. Yesterday’s private inauguration was just a formality, and today’s public inauguration wasn’t that much more important. Mayor Fenty’s speech (http://www.dcwatch.com/mayor/070103.htm) was a collection of platitudes) to other well known activists and news hounds are now saying the same. After reading Fenty’s 100 Day Plan, he still fails to offer any substance as to how he will go about getting any of his ideas accomplished despite the nice thirty three (33) page presentation he quickly distributed, I doubt anyone on his staff can answer how nor do I think any of his most loyal supporters could either. What Fenty has done for the last two years and counting is to tell us what he wants to do but never telling us how he is going to do it, how much it will cost, what impact it will have and more. Fenty reminds me of a five year old boy in a candy store whose eyes are bigger than his stomach. I can tell you that the FENTY 100 DAY PLAN will cost DC far more than its budget can stomach, and Fenty will be faced with either raising taxes, cutting out services and/or abolishing government jobs to pay for an estimated $36 billion he will need to do what he has laid out. Of course, Fenty does not expect people to sit down with a paper and pencil to add up the costs of his 100 Day Plan but it is so unrealistic and unobtainable that economists at GTU, GWU or the Brookings Institution would have a filed day of slapping Fenty around and calling his 100 Day Plan poorly thought out, unrealistic, unobtainable and a result of people who do not know what they are doing, but only good at only throwing out platitudes, deceptions and utter frauds upon the people of DC. The price we will pay for allowing Fenty to snub his nose at more seasoned people than those he has appointed and hired, where many come with a very short Résumé of experience to do the job they are there for may be our own self-determination as the voters of DC have put our chances of a Congressional vote, Home Rule and even the more distant Statehood on the line because if we start plummeting down because of the actions of the Fenty Administration, I doubt Congress will look favorably upon the District if it has to install another control board knowing that we were not smart enough to chose wisely our leadership.

MAYOR FENTY’S 100 DAY PLAN & BEYOND If you had the chance to read MAYOR FENTY’S 100 DAY PLAN & BEYOND, then you will have to agree, it is all window dressing, looks like it was cut and pasted with words changed and it is totally void any specifics as to how any of it is going to be achieved. As a man with a MBA in Management, there is no way Fenty can achieve his goals without cutting services, laying off about 10% of the District’s workforce and more in order to be able to afford this PLAN. Also a lot of what he proposes to do is not needed and will result in duplication and overlapping. Again, it is window dressing and I doubt he will even get 5% of it achieved.

MARY CHEH IS A CROOKED POLITICIAN When I first began my political campaign for the ward 3 seat there were some attacks lodged at me and I thought they were coming from my rival Sam Brooks. Time proved this to be untrue. The attacks on me and some of the other ward 3 candidates were coming from Mary Cheh and her supporters and this was affirmed by the tracing of the IP addresses which showed that they were originating from EastBanc, PN Hoffman Company and Joe Sterlieb’s home computer. These attacks on all the ward 3 candidates did not just encompass written attacks placed on DC Pages, DC Wire, City Desk, Yahoo list servers and DC Watch but included personal appearances by individuals who were identified from pictures by security guards as campaign workers of Mary Cheh at my place of employment and elsewhere. Other ward 3 candidates quickly picked up upon their attackers as people working for Mary Cheh. Mary Cheh is a crooked politician who received her backing from an illegal Political Action Committee known as Friends of Joe Sternlieb started by Joe Sternlieb formerly of DC Vote and his wife Linda Singer (interim AG DC). This illegal PAC was funded by Akridge, EastBanc and PN Hoffman Company who allowed Mary Cheh to rent her 1900 Sq. Ft campaign headquarters at 4725 Wisconsin Ave NW for ONLY $500 a month as a means of influence peddling. Email me at jrrees2006@verizon.net and I will be happy to send you back a 100 page report with evidence submitted to the FBI, DC Inspector General and the US Attorney DC that clearly based upon Cheh’s own filings shows campaign finance fraud, acceptance of money and help from a illegal (non-registered PAC). I am not perfect but Mary Cheh and her followers treated all ward 3 candidates like trash and she needs to be recalled and go to jail.

On January 3, 2008, a large group of people will file with the DC Board of Elections & Ethics a petition to recall Mary Cheh as ward 3 council member for a wide variety of reasons. Click on this line to see our website.

LAMONT HOFFMAN of PN HOFFMAN CO SHOULD BE INDICTED Lamont Hoffman, CEO of PN Hoffman Company knowingly and willfully allowed his company to violate the DC Campaign Finance laws when allowing a political candidate Mary Cheh for Ward 3 City Council to rent space from them at 4725 Wisconsin Ave, NW for her campaign headquarters for what she reported on her DC OCF filings as a monthly rent of $500.00. Hoffman’s actions were clearly an effort of influence peddling to obtain a favor(s) in the future.

DC A MODERN DAY TAMMANY HALL The reason I oppose Statehood and a Congressional vote is routed in the corruptness of the Government of the District of Columbia from the Office of the Mayor, City Council and across to the heads/management of many agencies of the District of Columbia. DC is a modern day Tammany Hall. DC will never realize its dream until the federal government abolish “Home Rule”, abolish DC Government as we know it, place all DC governmental agencies under their federal counter-parts to weed out the corruption and incompetence, and maybe 15 to 20 years from now, we can start all over again with a new DC Government with a mayor, council and release the agencies back to local control.

THE MAN BEHIND DC COUNCILWOMAN MARY CHEH Let me introduce you to the man behind Mary Cheh for City Council campaign. His name is Joe Sternlieb or as some jokingly call him (The Real Duece Bigelow -The Jewish Gigolo). For a long time, Joe use to live with his gay lover in an apartment off U Street NW, he lived a modest life and one day, he met the sucessful Linda Singer who was already up and running in life while poor Joe was still in a dumpy apartment with his gay lover. Since Joe knew he could swing both ways, he started dating Linda Singer and one thing led to another. Linda helped Joe form DC Vote and other concerns. In time, Linda taught Joe all the dirty tricks of law and politics and then cut him loose to wreak havoc on the District of Columbia. Sadly, Joe is not a real MENCH or HUNK but a big phony who has made his money setting up non-profits where he got money from unsuspecting contributors but has yet to succeed in the mission goal of his group(s) while he lined his own pockets. Now Joe has gradated up to the major leagues of Campaign Finance Fraud and show be sent away to prison.

MARY CHEH SHOWS HYPOCRICY & STUPIDITY ON WTOP RADIO The local blog DCist reports today: Via FreeRide, we read that WTOP's Mark Plotkin spent part of his live chat with washingtonpost.com yesterday afternoon to call out Ward 3 residents for not caring enough, if at all, about the District's lack of voting rights in Congress. Q: In your experience, do people from Ward 3 generally not support statehood/voting rights? I grew up in the ward - Forest Hills represent - and have found so many people on my parents block not interested in the issue. These aren't people that are here for a year or two; like my parents, they have lived in the District for over 30 years. And none of them will care about Cheh/Ginsburg etc. A new Fenty appointment lives on the block and will up the statehood support, but what is up with Ward 3? Mark Plotkin: You are absolutely right. Ward 3, more than anything, just wants good city services. I just wish they cared more about this issue. It doesn't seem to bother them, that we are second class citizens. Plotkin also took the time to express disenchantment with new Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh for selecting Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg to swear her into office, since Ginsberg voted against voting rights for the District in Alexander v. Daley. Apparently when Plotkin spoke to her about the gaffe, he found Cheh to be "quite defensive and wrong." Plotkin did give Cheh props for her remarks in favor of voting rights, however. What's your experience with Ward 3 residents on this issue? Are these Washingtonians really just too comfortable in their wealth and luxury to be bothered to stand up for their constitutional rights? Or is this an unfair generalization? Mark Plotkins hit it on the head. The greedy people of Ward 3 do not care about DC, about anybody outside of Ward 3 and this is because they are too busy selling to others their phony lines while they conspire to keep the rest of DC poor. Mary Cheh is a crook and that is why the crooked voters of Ward 3 picked her.

According to the Washington Post, DC Council Members Catania and Cheh now want to require girls younger than 13 years old to get a new nationally debated vaccine against cervical cancer. This is a dumb idea because the vaccine now available has not been tested enough for possible long term effects, it has not been proven to reduce the risk, and since human papilloma virus is sexually transmitted, then girls this age if not active have no need for it. Furthermore, here again we have the Social Engineers telling us what we have to do. Somebody needs to tell Mary Cheh to get a shot against lying to voters, campaign finance fraud and succumbing to that illness called illegal PAC funding as those diseases can wind you up in prison and it is contagious among politicians.

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