It is well established that all of the negative campaigning came from Rees. All of the legitimate candidates agree that Rees is the problem. Just look at what Rees himself claims, not just his hundreds of aliases. All of the attacks start with him.
Rees is a homosexual, or at least bisexual. He has numerous ads on numerous servers trolling for sex. His recent posts here at http://www.dcmessageboards.com/index.php?showtopic=10382 boast of his long conversations with bartenders at gay bars.
Rees began his council campaign trolling for anonymous sex partners on Criag's List.
Rees is obsessed with homosexual sex and accusses everyone of doing what he is or would like to be doing. He's clearly sexually frustrated.
That Rees is a gay basher is not surprising. This is a frequent problem with closetted homosexuals.
Gordon and Strauss would be appalled to be associated with you or even take your 29 votes, even if 28 were by accident.
But it is true, the negative campaigning, and Rees, you only had negative campaigning, only serves to turn people off and not vote.
Rees, no one ever thought you or your candidacy was anything more than a joke.
We are glad to hear that you are moving out of DC.
From Craig's List:
ISO an apartment or house to rent -- Mon Sep 18 -- (Montgomery County)
email: jrrees2006@verizon.net
Middle aged Husband and wife ISO an apartment or small house in
Montgomery County to rent beginning in December 2006 or January 2008.
Willing to pay $800 - $1100 a month.
We all know that Rees is the queen of multiple identities and claiming that others are doing just exactly what he is doing.
It has all been Rees all along.
Perhaps you only got 29 votes, 28 by accident, because you campaigned against improving schools and ending home rule.
Not really popular ideas.
That said, you are one of just a few candidates to outright lie to the voters.
Writing in Teresa Conroy is just the sort of mornoic thing that Rees would advocate. Since Conroy will be on the November ballot, there isn't a point to writing her in.
And yet every one of the Post's endorsed candidates in D.C. won.
The Post and other papers, of course, don't use endorsements as a prediction but rather as a recommendation.
Rees, never considered to be a serious candidate and never mentioned in a positive way in the Post, got 29 votes or 0%.
Right. It was a poorly done poll. Cheh got 46% of the vote on election day. She was seriously slighted by that earlier poll. Unless Rees' smear campaign was seen for what it was and sharply increased support for her.
The Post's endorsed candidates in D.C. all won.