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Why are all the ward 3 candidates running a single issue campaign (schools) and ignoring other issues of concern to voters? Cheh, Rice, Strauss and etcetera all claim they have the solution. Since arriving in DC in 1979, our schools have been crumbling and more, but nobody gave a damn. All of a sudden, and in the name of political gain, my rivals care when there is no evidence that they ever did before. Furthermore, with only 7% of the ward 3 voters having children in school, do the candidates think the other 93% are putting our schools first in what they seek from the next ward 3 council member? This “School Issue” is a perfect example where the far left wing of the DC Democratic Party has been brain-washing people to believe that our schools come before housing, food on the table, clothing, needs of our elders and other matters. The far left wing took DC into bankruptcy bringing upon us a Federal Control Board and now it has turned DC into the most expensive city in the USA east of the Mississippi forcing its people to face personal bankruptcy or leave this city not to face such. Jonathan R. Rees Candidate for Ward 3 DC City Council http://www.rees2006.com/

I did no such thing. Maybe one of you did it just to have an excuse because you are bored to say I did it but I did not.

You might be right B Frank but who got DDOT to take down most of the campaign posters over the weekend all along Connecticut Avenue and the lower part of Wisconsin? Damn, Conn Ave is clear of posters.

Over this weekend, somebody started sliding under the doors of apartment renters a flier asking that renters not vote for Mary Cheh because she supports the abolishing of rent control. Apartment renters make up 40% of the ward 3 voters. Some think TENAC is behind this but I suspect Bfrank_dc A/k/a Martin Austermuhle. See Flier > http://dc2006.net/marycheh.jpg

Sam Brooks a while back asked all of the ward 3 candidates to agree not to put up posters. After DDOT took down most of the posters the past few days, Sam Brooks has gone around parts of ward 3 and put up his mini-posters where others use to be. 1. Sam Brooks says he supports gay rights but accepts $15,000.00 from a long list of people who oppose gay rights. 2. Sam Brooks publicly assures voters he will not put up posters and asks all ward 3 candidates to agree not to put up posters but now he does. 3. Sam Brooks says he cares about workers but has received backing from anti-labor types. What else can we now do to make voters hate us and call us liars?

MONEY & TAXES NOT SCHOOLS IS NO# 1 ISSUE THIS ELECTION TIME by: Jonathan R. Rees, Candidate Ward 3 City Council Website: http://www.rees2006.net The true role of our DC City Council as it concerns the DCPS is funding and nothing more. It’s oversight is merely one of funding what DCPS asks for in its budget request each year, but the real people who can make things happen are the DCPS officials we elect and otherwise, not the members of the DCCC. Until voters realize that, we will still have the likes of candidates promising things they cannot do. This is why Pat Bitando suggested if people are really concerned about our schools, then they should run for a spot there. I do not know who woke up one morning and decided that our schools would be the number one issue in this political season but as a ward 3 resident and candidate, I realize that only 7% of the voters in my ward have children in school and more than half the people I have spoken too, which has been well over 3,000 so far put matters of the pocketbook first not our schools. The sad truth is when I came to DC in 1979, our schools were in disarray then and after all these years, we finally decide to do something about it! Have voters been out to lunch these past 27 years? The fact that all the ward 3 candidates except Eric Goulet and myself have made schools the top campaign issue and have ignored all else has robbed the voters of where they stand on so many other issues of concern to voters. Income taxes, property taxes, jobs, job security, housing, excessive and costly regulations on businesses, healthcare, assisted living for our seniors, traffic congestion and so many other issues were brought up in my talks with voters before the school issue was. Sadly, most of the ward 3 candidates have made this campaign season a single issue and are cheating and/or keeping voters ignorant on where they stand on so many other important issues. In sum, I ran into this 72 year old gent who lives at 2712 Wisconsin Avenue NW and he said to me: “Mr. Rees, I am 72 years old, I have no children, never had any, I live on a fixed income of $1,700 a month, I live in a rent controlled unit, I have health issues and I am concerned about paying my rent, putting food on my table, co-payments on the 14 different medications I take each day, so why would I give a damn about our schools? Mr. Rees, probably half the voters in ward 3 are just making it and they are just like me, more concerned about what I am as it is painful watching greedy landlords, doctors, pharmaceutical companies and others squeeze the life out of what little most of us have. What are you going to do to strengthen the backbone of what life people like I have left?”

TEAM REES has agreed to handle the final round of distribution of the campaign brochure to every home in wards 1, 2 and 3 for Cropp for Mayor. Tonight, Rees met with Linda Cropp to arrange the foregoing. Ramon Rivera and his crew will be doing the distribution.

Luke, Alec Evans may deny it but that is not what he said to Kojo' staff. Go back to October 2005 and you will see in the media that Fenty was opposed to tax cuts, raising the deduction levels but later on changed on the issues. When he did and others saw it, Kojo's staff said Fenty's plan seems like the one Rees has and that is what triggered a belief he might have adopted what I wrote and altered it a wee bit.

Luke, I do not know where that picture originated but I got an anonymous email saying did you create this and it was attached in a PDF file. Email me and I'll send to you what was sent to me.

Tom Sherwood of NBC 4 says that the Washington Post’s endorsement is taken more seriously for mayoral candidates but not for ward council seats. In the last two races, the Washington Post endorsed 10 candidates for city council and 8 of them lost their races. Tom Sherwood pointed out that Adrian Fenty, Kwame Brown, Marion Barry, Vincent Orange and Sharon Ambrose all won their races despite the fact the Washington Post did not endorse them. Also, the Washington Post endorsements on the ward seat levels are seen by some as the kiss of death based upon it bad record of picking winners for city council.

Luke, I thought Alec Evans was Fenty's chief of the campaign. If you go back to when Fenty first started his campaign, he was opposed to any tax cuts, I presented my ideas to him, he thought they were too steep and then later on adopted verbatim my original presentation. I then spoke with Kojo and he said that he saw a stark similarity and wanted to get Fenty to answer on his show my claim that he was using my idea if Fenty denied it. Later on, the Kojo show said that Fenty's office did not admit or deny my claim other than Mr. Rees like Mr. Fenty just wants to take DC in the right direction on taxes and so on. I would love to see what Alec Evans has to say and I am sure Kojo would to if he actuallys address it head on.

Luke, Read the fine print on the bottom of that picture. Somebody did this and made it look like I did it. On the bottom it says A Very Special Message From JRR's Shut The F Up Foundation. I posted this as I think one of your readers did it!

A Message From Jonathan Rees To His Online Critics

Candidates for Ward 3 member of D.C. City Council Jonathan Rees By HALLIE FALQUET Special to The Common Denominator You have to be quick to keep up with Ward 3 city council candidate Jonathan Rees. In his unmistakable New York accent, he can tell you, all in one breath, why he should win the Sept. 12 Democratic primary, that he doesn’t accept endorsements and how to use a samurai sword. Rees, 51, has good reason to speak quickly, as his platform encompasses a long list of planned reforms that he wants to make sure are understood by all Ward 3 residents. "My platform resonates with the voters, more so than my rivals, who aren’t representative of Ward 3 like I am," he told The Common Denominator during a recent interview. Lowering personal income taxes by 15 percent and raising the standard deduction and personal exemption rates are on the top of Rees’s priority list. Next on his list are improving healthcare for poor and elderly residents and downsizing the government. "Reducing the bloated civil service ranks of 34,000 employees to 20,000, not by laying off workers, but by not filling vacancies when retirements, resignations and terminations take place until we reach an ideal level of civil servants," Rees explains on his campaign Web site. This single plan will save the city $1.25 million a year, he claims. The savings would replace the need to add taxes on local businesses and residents and can be used to build new schools in the District, instead of just poorly repairing the old ones, Rees said. Although he mentioned building new schools, he added that education is not his top priority, as only 7 percent of Ward 3 residents have school-age children -- a fact he said his opponents are missing by putting education as the number one issue on their agendas. "Education is secondary in my mind. … I’m the only candidate to raise issues of the pocketbook," he said. Born in Sicily and raised just 20 minutes outside of New York City, Rees moved to Washington in 1979 to work at a subsidiary of the World Bank. He went on to lobby for food conglomerate Royal Ahold, which owns Giant Food, and Institutional Dental Care Inc., where he is currently employed. He has practiced karate for over 25 years, beginning in the 1970s when "it was a fad," he said. In fact, he used to teach karate classes in Georgetown and continues to practice the art and his skill with the samurai sword. He also has more than 20 years of government affairs and business management experience, which he says makes him the most qualified candidate. "They want to go back to the center politically," Rees said of Ward 3 residents, "and I’m the only candidate who’s moderate." Rees is distinguished from the other candidates in that he does not accept any political contributions or endorsements from businesses or special-interest groups. "I don’t want to owe anyone anything when I get elected," he explained. "My opponents run the risk of accepting money from someone who could later be indicted of corruption, which reflects badly on them. And if the money is from a special-interest group, the people see that as canceling out their vote and they’re sick of that." Although this puts him behind financially, "I have one thing they don’t have -- an electronic database of 11,000 Democratic voters," he said. The Web has provided a fast and economical way for Rees to reach voters, but it has also been a primary platform for controversy within the campaign. The source has been primarily from postings on web logs, or "blogs." For example, on June 10, an anonymous blogger posted the following message in reference to Rees on the Washington Post's online blog: "Not everyone is entitled to speak, certainly not literally insane candidates who do nothing but lie about, and attack, other candidates." This example, and many that target candidates other than Rees, have become commonplace as speculation surrounds who is responsible for posting the nasty messages. Rees has his suspicions about who is behind what he describes as "mud-slinging," but chooses not to focus on it. "I hate drumming on the negative. … Everyone is being attacked one way or another, but I won’t dance to their [the bloggers'] tune," he said. It apparently will take more than a few low-blows to get this fiery candidate to slow down. He said he believes that he is the best choice for Ward 3 and is making that known by going door to door delivering campaign brochures and by sometimes touting his platform over a steak at his favorite D.C. haunt, Sam and Harry’s. "I believe most candidates who are running for office are not running for the benefit of other people, but rather they’re running for their egos," Rees said. "I’m not in it for my ego. I want to make a healthy change."

NONE OF OUR WARD 3 CANDIDATES CAN FIX OUR SCHOOLS POSTED AT THE MAIL @ DCWATCH DC Watch is read by 15,000 voters twice a week. Dear Gary and Dorothy, In (Themail) dated August 20, 2006, Pat Bitando made a very interesting point about the ward 3 race which I am one of the candidates. Mrs. Bitando pointed out: “We have all of the candidates in Ward 3 saying what they will do with the schools, when our Home Rule Charter puts the schools primarily in the hands of the Board of Education.” In other words, none of us can really affect what happens to our schools and even the one elected, is limited only to matters of funding not actual policy making. Yet, my rivals like Bill Rice, Robert Gordon, Mary Cheh and two others have sunk a lot of money into campaign literature telling voters what they will do for our schools if elected, but failed to put a disclaimer at the bottom of their campaign literature stating that they would like to do the following but cannot do such because the DC Home Rule Act does not afford them as a member of our city council with that power. Are all of these claims of what “they” will do misleading voters, fraud or what? My campaign website on the school issue says: “Turning over total control of our schools to the DC City Council by seeking an amendment to the "DC Hole Rule Act" and build new schools not poorly remodeled ones. Also adding teacher aides in all classrooms, after school study halls with tutors, and a parent/teacher program to encourage and teach parents to give one hour a day to their childrens' home work studies. If my rivals did not know their limitations as to what they could or could not do about our schools if elected, and they have purposely mislead voters, how much misleading will they do to the ward 3 voters if elected? Sincerely, Jonathan R. Rees Candidate, Ward 3 City Council http://www.rees2006.com

BOLDEN vs. MENDELSON is a lesson for the ward 3 candidates The at large race between Bolden and Mendelson is a lesson for the ward 3 candidates to learn from. Mendelson only won last time round by 1/3 of the votes and that is because there were 3 other candidates running. When Bolden and Bowers entered the at large race against Mendelson, Bolden went to Bowers and asked him to drop out so Mendelson could finally be defeated because it is believed that 60% of the voters will vote down Mendelson. The polls now show that Bolden will win this race. In our ward 3 race, it is presumed that Bill Rice, Paul Strauss, Erik Gaull, Robert Gordon and Mary Cheh are the more popular candidates but as Elissa Silverman put it unofficially, these five may actually drain each other of votes because they will be pulling from the same pool of voters. This large field of candidates will probably result in one of the lesser candidates winning. On the side bar, Paul Strauss has actually very little support in ward 3 as 95% his money has come from outside of ward 3 as very few ward 3 voters have given him a penny. The fact is, Paul Strauss is deceiving voters by the money he has which came from all of the employees of his father’s business and his own law firm. Bill Rice and Mary Cheh based upon who is supporting them, have some of DC’s most notable crooks backing them. I am talking of people who have been in trouble for possible criminal and ethics violations. This ward 3 race will probably not turn out as most of the readers thinks it will.

I think after the fact, the Washington Post did speak to Ms. Roque and did see her official filing whereby they have her address, phone number and more. Ms. Roque is an enemy of Hugo Chavez, Martin Austermuhle and I believe that Tom Knott, Lori Montgomery and others do know she is real and where to find her and they are not beating a path to her door.

Wrong Bob, Ramon Jose Stewart-Rivera owns that blog, he is Lucifer and he does exist and offered to meet Austermuhle, but he chickened out of the meeting. Austermuhle use to say that Thelma Roque did not exist but now he knows she does and is a part of a group of Venezuelans who hate him and his boss Hugo Chavez. Bob you have to wake up a bit earlier to outsmart Rivera.

Jonathan Rees, Bob never said such things. He was quoting other people in all that he was saying. The only thing Rees lobbied on the Hill was,to allow a Ms. Greene the opportunity to have her "Same Sex Marriage Ban" allowed by popular vote by seeking that Congress require it. As for pedophilia, only you were called a pedophile because you in fact posted unclothed pictures of yourself where children could access them and you did remove them after your behavior was made public. I saw those pictures when I Google your name.

Mayoral Candidate Adrian Fenty Conceded Ward 3 Candidate Rees Is Right See Jonathan R. Rees' new website and his position on all issues of importance to you. Click here > http://www.rees2006.com In the various mayoral events, each side has accused each other of things but Adrian Fenty was accused of stealing his economic/tax plan for DC from ward 3 Candidate Jonathan Rees. Fact and the public record supports it but Mayoral Candidate Adrian Fenty has adopted verbatim an identical economic/tax plan to the one Rees laid out in the Washington Times and in the Tenleytown list server back in September 2005. Fenty when asked if he had plagiarized the plan denied such but only commented that some of those running for office clearly are wanting to take DC in the right direction. Rees' school plan is the most extensive and modeled after the successful programs of California and New York City that helped raise student grades and SAT examination scores as outlined in his website.

Human, Bfrankdc's real identity is Martin Andres Austermuhle who is a co-editor of the blog DCist. My only hate is for the few gays who have openly attacked me not for all. Austermuhle is a radical and many who I will not name in the local press corp said his sordid history is well known and the only reporters/writers that will write about others he dislikes are other gays like himself which makes any story they write tainted because of bias. The editor of the InTowner has lost credibility because he allowed himself to be biased by a liar.

Mayoral Candidate Adrian Fenty Conceded Ward 3 Candidate Rees Is Right See Jonathan R. Rees' new website and his position on all issues of importance to you. Click here > http://www.rees2006.com In the various mayoral events, each side has accused each other of things but Adrian Fenty was accused of stealing his economic/tax plan for DC from ward 3 Candidate Jonathan Rees. Fact and the public record supports it but Mayoral Candidate Adrian Fenty has adopted verbatim an identical economic/tax plan to the one Rees laid out in the Washington Times and in the Tenleytown list server back in September 2005. Fenty when asked if he had plagiarized the plan denied such but only commented that some of those running for office clearly are wanting to take DC in the right direction. Rees' school plan is the most extensive and modeled after the successful programs of California and New York City that helped raise student grades and SAT examination scores as outlined in his website.

MS. LISA S. GREENE AND A SAME SEX MARRIAGE BAN IN DC IN 2008 Ms. Lisa S. Greene, an anti- same sex marriage activist in DC has been, and will move forward with a ballot initiative to define marriage in the District of Columbia as being between a man and a woman as a device to prevent our city council or what she feels are activist judges from allowing such to take place against the will of the majority of voters. GLBT activists are alarmed over Ms. Greene's activities in light of the fact that she is being backed by some 40 churches in 5 wards. The Gay & Lesbian Activist Alliance feels it would be wrong to allow the majority of Washington residents, who probably oppose same sex marriage to prevail, and to deny the civil rights of a minority. Ms. Greene argues that homosexuals are not a minority because minority status has been reserved for persons born of a certain way they had no control over, and have historically been subjected to discrimination because of it; whereas homosexuality is not something you are born with, but choose to be such. Some see the battle about same sex marriage as being one falling along racial lines with African Americans and Hispanics making up 70% of those oppose to such and Caucasians in support. Others see the opposition coming mainly from African Americans, Hispanics, Catholics and conservative Jews, and not so much along racial lines. If a same sex marriage ban would pass in 2008, what impact will that have on the GLBT community? In other jurisdictions where bans have happened, there has been an exodus of GLBT people out of those states ranging from 5% to 35%. GLBT people are already leaving Virginia in what many see as an inevitable constitutional ban. Read > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6080600797.html Some predict that anywhere from 25% to 35% of the DC GLBT people will leave if a same sex marriage ban passes. Why so high a rate? DC has for years, been seen by the GLBT people as being the best place for same sex marriage to take place, many have given up all in life to come to DC in anticipation of it happening, but if it is banned in DC, these people will go elsewhere and cut their losses. A same sex marriage ban vote in DC is inevitable. Ms. Greene opposes same sex marriage on religious grounds, and others oppose it on grounds that it is not the natural order. Furthermore, the medical community around the world is not in agreement that people are born homosexual, and the psychiatric community around the world is not in agreement that it is, or it is not a psychiatric disorder and/or a learned behavior. There are just too many people who have lived a life as a heterosexual, and after having dabbled in some homosexual activities, chose to switch their orientation. Likewise, there are many who lived a homosexual life-style, realized it was not right for them, and went on to live a heterosexual life-style such as the recent case of those two women fighting between Vermont and Virginia over their daughter. The existence of what is called a bi-sexual lends itself to the belief held around the world by many experts in both the medical and psychiatric communities that our sexual orientation is something we choose, and not something we are born with. There is no common ground as both sides of the argument are so vehement in their beliefs, have dug their heels in, and it has only been the result of a series of voter initiatives around the country that these disputes have been settled by. The movie "White Man's Burden" was about life where Caucasians were slaves to African Americans. In DC, many feel that the GLBT community has turned things to the point where everybody has to accept homosexuality as the norm, and damn you, if you do not support them or you will face their wrath. My hat off to Ms. Lisa Greene for what she is doing, as she is seizing what has made America great; namely, one person/one vote and majority rule by not wanting to let well funded special interest groups make a mockery of our votes by trumping over them via our legislators or activist judges who rarely are in touch with the will of those who voted them in. My support of Ms. Greene is not one of taking a stance on the issue at hand but a support of her belief that the issue should be resolved by the voters as our legislatures and courts have for the past decade and more usurped the will of the people. Insofar as the District of Columbia recognizing same sex marriages and civil unions of say Massachusetts, I believe The Full Faith and Credit Clause has been noted for its application involving orders of protection, for which the clause was expounded upon by the Violence Against Women Act, child support, for which the enforcement of the clause was spelled out in the Federal Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Orders Act (28 U.S.C. § 1738B), and its possible application to same-sex marriage, civil union and domestic partnership laws and cases, as well as the controversial Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The clause has been the chief constitutional basis for the repeated attacks on the DOMA. Regardless of whether DOMA is constitutional, most legal scholars recognize that it is more probably superfluous given the public policy exception. For even if DOMA is deemed unconstitutional, the long precedence of the public policy exception weighs in against the recognition of same-sex marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships in states whose public policy prohibits it. As of early 2004, 39 states have passed their own laws nearly all of which specifically reject same-sex marriages recognized in other jurisdictions. Many of these laws have been passed in the last few years. By taking a legal stance on the issue these states have helped inform the Supreme Court what the public policy of the various states are before the Court takes up the issue and it is left to review the constitutionality of those policies.

I will give you those case numbers Bfrank when you disclose your real name.

Thelma Roque is a real person, She works in DC but lives in St. Mary's County, Maryland. She is not listed nor a voter as she is not a US Citizen.