Karl Rudder

OUR LEVEL OF COOPERATION WILL BE DETERIMINED BY OUR LEVEL OF COMMUNICATION This summer is coming and DC residents can begin to more actively meet and develop tutorial services at building the studying skills and basic academic output for students as well as providing workshops for parents and interested adults of DC at our many churches. Right now I am at work at developing that kind of output at the Isle of Patmos Church that I attend. The goal that we share is to do our best to use the summer to better stimulate a more positive peer influence by working with groups of DC youth as well as building the confidence, creativity and skills of many DC parents to more effectively address the academic needs of their children or of the youth within their neighborhood. I trust the majority of us know that the key to learning anything is - Practice makes Perfect ! Reading an interesting newspaper article to children (if not challenging the little angels to learn how to spell a few words) if not having them reading an interesting article to us and challenging us to spell a few words is only the tip of an iceberg of ideas that can in time positively influence their reading and writing skills. Consistency to addressing childrens reading, writing and math skills must be creatively addressed and thus prove to be enjoyable. When I worked as a GED Instructor at the Cedar Knoll Correction facility I would let those deserving to often play Password during many classes during the summer. I laugh at the memory of seeing the kids struggling for and possibly guessing the right word. Password was a wonderful and very educational game and I pray that thousands of my little brothers and sisters enjoy themselves playing it this summer. To encourage the teenagers to develop their reading skills was easy after I shared a few grammatical errors if not very poor design of an article that I would sometimes find in the Post or some other newspaper. The kids would be shocked to see such errors from "professional" writers and I trust a little more willing to learn from a mistake of their own. We always hear about reading programs but rarely hear about a program designed to develop the writing skills of the students. In any true academic exchange reading and writing go together and unfortunately many of our youth are not truly given any editing skills to employ and as a result their writing suffers. Patiance and encouragement are the keys that unlock many young and strong minds. Developing the concentration skills of our elementary youth is easier when you share the tricks that adding is the opposite of subtracting and multiplying is the opposite of division. Many junior high and senior high youth had experienced fear of not remembering basic math skills and so their effort in learning was cut in half. I have seen many smiling faces after I approach them and from the very beginning inform them that all I need is their attention to learn basic algebra to solve the equation m - 43 = 12. Of course once I have their attention I can go off into addressing a few more challenging problems such as 3c - 12 = 27 Our children of DC, Baltimore, Richmond and throughout this country need action so that by the end of the summer many of them will be returning to school with a stronger sense of confidence, willingness to learn from a mistake and a wonderful smile on their face as they impress themselves, their parents, each other and those that have helped them during this coming summer. I pray 10 churches here in DC will contact me if not each other and and begin to coordinate the tutorial services that they will provide to the youth of their community during the course of this summer. We all study from the same book on Sunday ! How about another similarity that we all can have for the benefit of the children of our community during this summer? I am sure that the thousands of proud students attending the University of the District of Columbia, Howard University, American University, Catholic University, Georgetown University, George Washington University and the many other proud adults attending many other local schools are part of the solution to this challenge to develop the studying skills and academic output of DC youth beyond just this summer. Our level of cooperation will be determined by our level of communication.

Mr. Catania, At Large DC City Council Several weeks ago I left copy of what I have worked hard at sharing with DC residents and is now finally available via google.com under various topics such as, "The Inequity of the DC Taxicab Zone System" and "The History of the Corrupt DC Taxicab Zone System." www.dcmessageboards.com/index.php?automodule=blog blogid=12&&req=printentry&eid=31 - 36k - is my favorite version of my research In respect to your position as one of the At Large DC City Council members I have appealed to you to assist the general public in coming to know the little known facts of this issue. You've insisted in the past to only express a very bureaucratic escapist approach of either, " I'm sorry but I am not on that committee.", or "The majority of taxicab drivers and public that I've talked to prefer the zone system and do not want to have meters in DC taxicabs." The regulation of the DC Taxicab Industry and the very unique and corrupt zone taxicab fare system is not a popularity issue Mr. Catania. The merit of the preference of the public and DC taxicab drivers on what kind of taxicab fare structure should be judged by their level of insight into the social, economic and political facts of the issue and right now very few DC residents and taxicab drivers know that 75 years ago the DC government had listed 20 reasons to, "deny any version of the zone system to replace the meters in DC taxicabs." (PUC order nol 956 11/06/31. How many know that this initial government decision by the DC Public Utilities Commission is still standing due to two Court decisions that completely upheld that initial denial of,"any version of the zone system to replace meters in DC taxicabs," Near the very end of my short research paper I refer to the fact that several DC City Council members have failed to have expressed the educational skill of knowing that the merit of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence as well as countless laws are not dismissed as having any merit only due to the fact that the date on which that legal document or Court decision had been issued. Many DC City Council members, if not Mayors and Delegates as well have chosen to respond to my sharing copies of the initial and still standing government and Court decisions by running from the facts while trying to dismiss their having any merit by their expressing, "Well look at the date Mr. Rudder, that decision was made better than 70 years ago! How could such an old court decision have anything to do with today's effort at regulating the DC taxicab industry?" DC City Council member Jim Graham has enjoyed two meetings of his Public Works Committee so far this year that I was aware of and testified before and just like Carol Schwartz and many other previous Chairs of the Public Works Committee he just sat there by himself with no members even providing their staff to express some indication on just how that DC City Council member stood in respect to DC being the only major city in this country and in this world that does not use a meter to equitably compute local taxicab fares as well as used as a reliable means to record and tax the income of the local taxicab industry. I look forward to being of any assistance to any DC City Council member(s) that care to do their best at educating DC residents of the corrupt facts of this issue. Not everyone "addressing" or "studying" or "researching" the DC Taxicab Zone System can refer to their material being made available to the public via google.com. www.dcmessageboards.com/index.php?automodule=blog blogid=12&&req=printentry&eid=31 - 36k I look forward to coming to meet a DC City Council member who will stimulate a stronger team effort from the DC City Council and DC Taxicab drivers and DC residents at much more openly and effectively addressing the corrupt regulation of the DC Taxicab Industry. After 75 years of a corrupt operation I will not expect the regulation of the DC taxicab zone system to change overnight. Please inform me if you care to employ any of your time at openly exposing the corrupt history of the DC Taxicab Zone System or will all of your time be invested into many other issues and to what Vincent Gray, Chair of the DC City Council has assigned you to address. Karl Rudder 202-249-8083 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See what's free at AOL.com. ----------------- Forwarded Message: Subj: Fwd: "Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?" Date: 5/2/2007 10:48:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: krudder222 To: MCheh@DCCOUNCIL.US Ms. Mary Cheh, I assure you that my address to you in concern of the very corrupt DC Taxicab Zone System is only a fraction of my sincere address to DC City Council members, Mayor and Delegate in respect to the corrupt history and address to the unique and corrupt DC Taxicab Zone System. The many local and national politicians as well as the many elements of the local and national news media have failed for 75 years to ever sincerely address the corrupt history of the very unique DC taxicab zone system fare structure. The attached addresses to Harry Thomas Jr. of Ward 5 and Marion Barry in Ward 8 are additional examples of my address to local politicians who have refused for years in ever having sincerely employed themselves at sincerely and effectively addressing the 75 years of a very corrupt "regulation"of the DC Taxicab Industry. I will not impose on your time or that of your staff's time and submit all copies of my addresses to Mayor Fenty and all DC City Council members and local and national news "reporters". I am sure that DC City Council member Cheh can be far more effective in exposing and confidently referring to the initial and still standing government and Court decisions of this matter. Please inform me if I can be of any assistance to DC City Council member Cheh addressing the corrupt "regulation" of the DC Taxicab Industry for the benefit of DC residents, taxicab drivers and national and international tourists to Washington DC. Karl Rudder American Citizen aka Ward 5 resident Washington DC 202-249-8083 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See what's free at AOL.com. ----------------- Forwarded Message: Subj: Fwd: "Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?" Date: 5/2/2007 9:36:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: krudder222 To: mbarry@dccouncil.us Mr. Marion Barry, I remain amazed at your complete failure to having even tried to make issue of the Congressional corruption of the DC Taxicab Zone System with such insulting "taxicab zone boundaries as Alabama Ave SE. Should you care to begin to try and address the corrupt regulation of the DC Taxicab Zone System I submit the attached to assist you with an ability to refer to the initial and still standing government and Court decisions that were made 75 years ago to, "deny any version of the zone system to replace the use of meters in DC taxicabs." Now I have seen you show initiative to ask permission to address DC Council committees that you were not assigned to in respect to your concern on the matters that they were addressing. What will it take for you to show a similar level of initiative in addressing the DC City Council Public Works Committee in respect to the corrupt regulation of the DC Taxicab Industry? In my scale of values the still standing government and Court decisions were all I needed to keep me motivated to openly and honestly address the corrupt regulation of the DC Taxicab Zone System. What do you need Mr. Barry to address the failure of the news media and local and national politicians at responsibly addressing or "reporting" on the undeniable yet little known facts of the corrupt DC Taxicab Zone System fare structure? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See what's free at AOL.com. ----------------- Forwarded Message: Subj: Fwd: "Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?" Date: 5/2/2007 9:10:05 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: krudder222 To: hthomas@dccouncil.us Mr. Harry Thomas Jr., Your father was part of the problem in that he was a member and Chair of the DC City Council Public Works Committee in the past who refused to responsibly inform DC residents, taxicab drivers and tourists of the legislative tricks have pulled to force Washington DC to use a corrupt taxicab zone system. Vincent Gray assignment of DC City Council members resulted in your not being a member of the Public Works Committee. Please inform me if you will only respect your fathers subservience to Congress and will do your very best to only do what Vincent Gray tells you to do. Will you only mimic your fathers subservient failure to address the still standing government and Court decisions that had, "denied the zone system to replace meters in DC taxicabs."(PUC order no. 956 11/06/31) or will you express an ability to employ yourself and responsibly address your colleagues of the current Public Works Committee in respect to the little known facts of this issue? I will carry on in addressing this issue just as sincerely and as responsibly as my father had taught me to do when addressing the social, economic and political oppressors of the DC community. "John Rudder, president of the United Brotherhood of DC taxi drivers told Inouye's panel,"The case for meters is so apparent that it begs the question of sanity to think otherwise." ("Ban on Taxi Meters in Force Since 32 Will Be Challenged" Washington Post 12/07/71) A response to this email to your office will be appreciated even if you should ask an assistant to one of your top assistants to prepare it. Karl Rudder Ward 5 Resident -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See what's free at AOL.com. ----------------- Forwarded Message: Subj: "Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?" Date: 5/2/2007 8:46:23 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: krudder222 To: MCheh@DCCOUNCIL.US DC’s Unchallenged Taxicab Zone System The District of Columbia (Washington, DC) is the only major city in this entire world not using some modern version of a meter to equitably compute taxicab fares and used as a reliable means to record and tax the income of the local Taxicab Industry. It has remained only general knowledge that DC was stuck with the unique DC Taxicab Zone System by several legislative tricks from Congress. The objective has been reached in that the unique DC Taxicab Zone System has continued to provide the cheapest and most reliable taxicab service in only the downtown and NW area of DC. There has yet to be one DC Delegate, Mayor or City Council member (other than John Wilson in 1975) to ever use any of their well paid time or staff to honestly research and try to responsibly address this issue for the benefit of DC residents, taxicab drivers and tourists. Very few are aware that 75 years ago DC did initially use meters to compute local taxicab fares. Bell and City Cab Company were the major taxicab companies at that time. The weekly rental fee in DC for the new invention of the automobile had since 1928 been an agreed percentage of the weekly earnings of the drivers as indicated by the meter. The Depression in 1931 motivated many DC taxicab drivers and passengers to start to give Bell and City Cab Company a big headache by making quick oral contracts and not at all engaging the meter. Hack Inspectors were writing loads of tickets to cab drivers as they were observed to pick up a passenger but would fail to engage the meter. Bell and City Cab Company began to lose a lot of money every week. Many cab drivers started to argue over their rental fee due to many reporting back at the end of the week with the meter showing little income and Bell and City Cab Companies insisting that they had to have made more through the course of the past week. Without any authority Bell and City Cab Companies chose to solve this new problem by suddenly removing the meters in their cabs and started using an unapproved "Zone Map" to calculate taxicab fares while charging the drivers a flat rental fee each week. Due to some cabs having a meter and many others using various versions of a Zone Map the DC Public Utilities Commission(PUC) responded to the confusion of the public by holding extensive public hearings through August and September of 1931. On November 6, 1931 the PUC issued order no. 956 and listed 20 reasons to,"deny any version of the zone system to replace the use of meters in DC taxicabs." Among the reasons given in 1931 to deny the use of the zone system it is fascinating to know that in the overtly racist society of 1931 the zone system was initially denied for reasons such as, "that under the zone fare system operators have frequently refused to render service where long hauls were involved - that the zone fare system unduly favors certain riders, and unduly discriminates against others -that proper accounting records cannot be secured under the zone fare system - that taximeters can be secured and installed without undue expense - That under the rates at present in effect operators are not able to earn a reasonable wage without working for such long hours as to impair their efficiency and thereby endanger their passengers and the public- that approximately 40% of the mileage is not revenue producing.(PUC order no. 956 11/06/31) I find it very insulting that over the course of 75 years local and national politicians and the news media have refused to ever "report" or "address" for the benefit of DC residents, taxicab drivers and tourists that not only had the unique Taxicab Zone System been initially denied for 20 very impressive reasons by the DC government but this very important decision was completely upheld by a very detailed decision by Judge Adkins. (1932 PURC pg. 1) Judge Adkins ruled that in 1931 that the proposed Zone system was, "only a means to exploit the labor of the cab driver." (1932 PURC pgs. 17,19) The third strike against the use of the Zone System was the fact that Judge Adkins decision was completely upheld by the DC Appeals Court.(1932) F2d 1005 This last decision by the DC Appeals Court however shows the power of Congress. The Appeals Court upheld Judge Adkins decision however a very puzzling sentence was included in their decision. The DC Appeals Court denied any enforcement of the order to eliminate the use of the zone system until after Congressional legislation on the matter had been completed. I trust that it will be very hard to find another Court decision that delayed the enforcement of a law until after Congress considered legislation on the matter. Congress cannot overrule a Court decision so after Bell and City Cab Company promised Capital Hill a huge Zone One Congress began to reach into their legislative pockets in 1934 and for the past 76 years have pulled out several legislative tricks that has resulted in the continued use of the Zone System. In 1971 my father, John E. Rudder, organized a Union of DC taxicab drivers to engage in a successful strike against Capitol Hill in protest of the unique DC taxicab zone system. John E. Rudder was quoted by a Washington Post reporter as having expressed to Sen. Inouye's committee, "The case for meters is so apparent that it begs the question of sanity to think otherwise." ("Ban on Taxi Meters in Force since '32 Will be Challenged" Washington Post 12/07/71). The results of these 1971 Senate hearings ended with revealing reports from the Senate Appropriations Committee supporting further study on the Zone System vs. Meter issue. A Professor from the School of Business of the University of Maryland was awarded a contract by Congress in 1971 to "study" the use of the Zone System vs. Meters in DC taxicabs. This study on using the Zone System vs. Meter issue in DC turned out to be nothing more than a quick and very shallow popularity survey from a very small group of respondents. The design of the 1972 University of Maryland study on the DC Taxicab Zone System and all others since 1972 have all failed to responsibly research and refer to the initial and still standing Court decisions against the use of the zone system as well as refer to just a few of the many tricks that Congress began to pull since 1934 forcing the computation of DC taxicab fares by the use of a very unique Zone System. The first Congressional legislative trick on this issue was "reported" only by the 11/13/71 Washington Post editorial, "The Taxicab Rider". This editorial made referral to a strange legislative provision that was authored by Rep. Cannon in 1934 and had become a "rider" attached to every annual, insulting DC Appropriations Act between 1934 -1987. This legislative provision ignored the merit of the initial and still standing government and Court decisions and simply stated, "The DC government no longer has the authority to consider or enforce any rules or regulations made in regards to installing meters in DC taxicabs." The DC government was now forced to adopt a uniform Zone Map due to on one hand they had laws against the use of any version of the zone system and on the other hand they had to respect restrictive legislation from Congress. The Second Congressional trick in relationship to the regulation of the DC Taxicab Industry occurred in 1987 when Congress removed the "Taxicab Rider" from the DC Appropriations Act yet suddenly created a very expensive DC Taxicab Commission. Since 1987 the annual budget of the DC Taxicab Commission has cost hundreds of millions of dollars to operate yet there is not even one report on the tax revenue that the DC Taxicab Commission had been able to record and collect from DC Taxicab Companies and drivers while "regulating" the DC Taxicab Industry! The third Congressional legislative trick on this issue occurred in 1996. The DC City Council had passed legislation in 1996 that was signed by Mayor Barry and ordered for DC Taxicabs to be installed with meters by 1998. ( The Washington Post 09/07/96 "New Cab Fares - but Old Problems") Congress played their third legislative game in respect to this issue in 1996 when they simply refused to appropriate the necessary funds to allow that legislation to go into effect. The 4th and most recent Congressional insult has been the Senate DC Appropriations Committee quietly informing newly elected Mayor Adrian Fenty to install meters in DC taxicabs within the first year of his administration. Senator Carl Levin (D -Michigan) had an opportunity to confess of Congress having very irresponsibly limited the DC government for 75 years from even considering this issue. Rather then responsibly trying to employ himself at correcting just one wrong that Congress has expressed to the DC community for more than 75 years we see Sen. Levin and his colleagues passing their 75 year old trash over to Mayor Fenty and ordering him to clean it up for them within one year. DC City Council members Schwartz, Brown, Catania and many other supporters of the zone system have used an indifferent and unfortunately very frequently heard insistence that only due to an alleged "preference" by DC residents and cab drivers is the zone system still being used. How valid is any alleged "preference" of the respondents to a "study" on an issue when the respondents have a very low level of common knowledge about the basic facts of the issue being studied? It is very important that American citizens are not taught to relate the merit of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the many very important laws of this country to only the year that those documents were issued. The significance to this basic educational skill is that DC City Council member Carol Schwartz and other supporters of the Zone System have tried to hide from the Truth of this issue by insisting that the legal facts of this issue "were made too long ago and don't relate in any direct manner to the present need in regulating DC taxicabs." Zone System supporters ignore the popularity and great need of the DC subway and bus service. Supporters of the zone system are only good for coming up with costly and very creative "New Findings" in their effort to keep the Zone System in operation. The quality of all past efforts or any future efforts on the part of Congress, Mayors, DC City Council members as well as the DC Taxicab Commission to "study" this issue can be easily calculated by seeing just how well any refer to the initial and still standing government and Court decisions that 76 years ago denied, "any version of the zone system to replace the use of meters in DC taxicabs."

As a Ward 5 resident I greatly appreciate DCpages.com providing an announcement of this upcoming Ward 5 Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting. I will be doing my best to attend that hearing.

I am looking forward to seeing the depth of the upcoming House and Senate hearings on Halliburton. This issue is the most profitable legal hustle that I could ever have dreamed of. A corporation receives 21 billion dollars in American contracts and then suddenly decides it will move its entire operation to a foreign country so that they won't be under much control nor will they have to pay taxes on those contracts.

Mr. Catania, At Large DC City Council I tried to make contact with you via the computer data that you designed and provided to DC residents. It came back. I have now called your office and asked for your email address. Let me see how far I can get in contacting one of the three At Large DC City Council members. Will your office be kind enough to keep me up to date on your activities? I ask as a concerned DC resident who is getting tired of having the news media reliably giving the general public a daily update on Anna Nicole's child, drug overdose, sexual activities etc. meanwhile the fact that every school in DC has an Honor Roll of students is being ignored while we are quickly brought up to date on the most recent shooting, stabbing and vicious fights among DC youth. "What we have here is a failure to communicate !" My Initial Address To You via your Computer Connection- (Rather than delivered, it came back!) Karl Rudder krudder222@aol.com As an At-Large DC City Council member I refer you to google.com research service. Indicate your interest to review "Karl Rudder's History Lesson on the DC Taxicab Zone System" and have one of your staff share with me just how you will employ any of your staff or even yourself at responsibly researching and addressing the historical, social, economic or even legal facts of the very unique DC Taxicab Zone System. Allow me to share that the extreme indifference that you and other DC City Council members have expressed towards this and other issues brings to question just why are we are wasting so much money for the operation of the DC City Council. To have the DC Public Schools receive half of the budget required to operate 5 rather than 10 DC City Council "committees" will show some responsible initiative of DC politicians. Do you have any initiative as a DC City Council member to propose that the DC City Council start expressing an extreme sacrifice and better invest in serving the needs of the community or are you still going to remain to be one of the three very costly yet inactive At Large members of the DC City Council? I would like to be far more aware of your address to the committee that you Chair. Your "send to" services allows me only relate to one of your listed departments. Is it possible for a DC resident to have an exchange with you rather than merely to you? Contact me - My email address should already be available to you and my phone number is listed. Karl Rudder -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See what's free at AOL.com. ----------------- Forwarded Message: Subj: Fwd: Committe of the Whole and 10 Committees = 0 Date: 4/10/2007 4:27:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: krudder222 To: MCheh@DCCOUNCIL.US Dear Mary Cheh, Your mission, should you decided to accept it, will be to impress DC residents, taxicab drivers and the many tourists to DC to be the first DC City Council member since John Wilson in 1975 who will sincerely employ themselves at trying to expose the basic, undeniable facts relating to the Congressional corruption of the DC Taxicab Industry. Mayor Fenty, Vincent Gray, Jim Graham, and all other DC City Council members will most likely continue to be deaf, dumb and blind about the undeniable legal facts of this issue and will disavow any knowledge of your actions. http://www.dcmessageboards.com/index.php?a...g&blogid=12 Karl Rudder -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See what's free at AOL.com. ----------------- Forwarded Message: Subj: Fwd: Committe of the Whole and 10 Committees = 0 Date: 4/9/2007 8:55:59 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: krudder222 To: vgray@dccouncil.us "Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?" Malcolm X -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See what's free at AOL.com. ----------------- Forwarded Message: Subj: Fwd: Committe of the Whole and 10 Committees = 0 Date: 4/9/2007 8:53:03 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: krudder222 To: mbarry@dccouncil.us Mr. Barry, The refusal on the part of Congress to fund the legislation that the DC City Council had approved and you had signed in 1996 to install meters in DC taxicabs by 1998 deserves some manner of open discussion. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See what's free at AOL.com. ----------------- Forwarded Message: Subj: Fwd: Committe of the Whole and 10 Committees = 0 Date: 4/9/2007 8:17:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: krudder222 To: kbrown@dccouncil.us Mr. Brown, I will trust that you will address the regulation of the DC Taxicab Industry very impressively in the near future. Your remaining completely divorced from ever addressing the corrupt regulation of the DC Taxicab Industry as an active DC resident deserving to be a member of the DC City Council can be accepted as an UnSolved Mystery. Congress provided themselves the cheapest and most reliable taxicab service in downtown DC 75 years ago and your being a member of the Public Works Committee allows you a very easy means of addressing this issue. Please let me know if your other assigned duties are disallowing you to employ yourself in responsibly addressing the corrupt regulation of the DC Taxicab Industry. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See what's free at AOL.com. ----------------- Forwarded Message: Subj: Committe of the Whole and 10 Committees = 0 Date: 4/9/2007 8:05:30 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: krudder222 To: jgraham@dccouncil.us MR. GRAHAM, Your graduation from law school appears to have weakened your being able to relate to the fact that after hundreds of millions of dollars were used for the creation of the DC City Council that CONGRESS still wastes even more HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS that are REQUIRED TO MAINTAIN THE SENATE AND HOUSE DC APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEES. IT IS STILL CONGRESS THAT DECIDES HOW MUCH MONEY DC RESIDENTS WILL GET. Not you guys! These following "committees" allow whoever wins an election to get lost. Kwame Brown and Mary Cheh are members of the Public Works Committee and I haven't seen either of them at the last two hearings that you held and ended up being the only DC City Council member in attendance. Despite their both being members of the Public Works Committee I've yet to receive any manner of response to my direct address to them in concern of this matter. I think its time that DC residents get what they need rather than to allow the DC City Council to continue to waste millions of dollars in taking care of meaningless committees just like Congress told them to do. Committee Of the Whole (COW) Vincent C. Gray, Chairperson All Members Committee on Economic Development Kwame R. Brown, Chairperson Jack Evans Carol Schwartz Ward 4 Councilmember Ward 7 Councilmember Committee on Finance and Revenue Jack Evans, Chairperson David A. Catania Marion Barry Jim Graham Kwame R. Brown Committee on Health David A. Catania, Chairperson Phil Mendelson Marion Barry Harry Thomas, Jr. Tommy Wells Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs Marion Barry, Chairperson Phil Mendelson Jim Graham Ward 4 Councilmember Ward 7 Councilmember Committee on Human Services Tommy Wells, Chairperson Marion Barry Carol Schwartz Phil Mendelson Harry Thomas, Jr. Committee on Libraries, Parks and Recreation Harry Thomas, Jr., Chairperson Carol Schwartz David A. Catania Phil Mendelson Tommy Wells Committee on the Public Safety and Judiciary Phil Mendelson, Chairperson Jack Evans Mary Cheh Ward 4 Councilmember Ward 7 Councilmember Committee on Public Services and Consumer Affairs Mary Cheh, Chairperson Jim Graham Marion Barry Kwame R. Brown Tommy Wells Committee on Public Works and the Environment Jim Graham, Chairperson Kwame R. Brown Mary Cheh Ward 4 Councilmember Ward 7 Councilmember Committee on Workforce Development and Government Operations Carol Schwartz, Chairperson Marion Barry Kwame R. Brown Harry Thomas, Jr. Mary Cheh

Subj: Fwd: Committe of the Whole and 10 Committees = 0 Date: 4/9/2007 8:55:59 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: krudder222 To: vgray@dccouncil.us "Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?" Malcolm X -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See what's free at AOL.com. ----------------- Forwarded Message: Subj: Fwd: Committe of the Whole and 10 Committees = 0 Date: 4/9/2007 8:53:03 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: krudder222 To: mbarry@dccouncil.us Mr. Barry, The refusal on the part of Congress to fund the legislation that the DC City Council had approved and you had signed in 1996 to install meters in DC taxicabs by 1998 deserves some manner of open discussion. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See what's free at AOL.com. ----------------- Forwarded Message: Subj: Fwd: Committe of the Whole and 10 Committees = 0 Date: 4/9/2007 8:17:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: krudder222 To: kbrown@dccouncil.us Mr. Brown, I will trust that you will address the regulation of the DC Taxicab Industry very impressively in the near future. Your remaining completely divorced from ever addressing the corrupt regulation of the DC Taxicab Industry as an active DC resident deserving to be a member of the DC City Council can be accepted as an UnSolved Mystery. Congress provided themselves the cheapest and most reliable taxicab service in downtown DC 75 years ago and your being a member of the Public Works Committee allows you a very easy means of addressing this issue. Mr. Brown, At Large member of the DC City Council, please let me know if your other assigned duties are disallowing you to employ yourself in responsibly addressing the corrupt regulation of the DC Taxicab Industry for the benefit of DC residents, taxicab drivers and tourists. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See what's free at AOL.com. ----------------- Forwarded Message: Subj: Committe of the Whole and 10 Committees = 0 Date: 4/9/2007 8:05:30 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: krudder222 To: jgraham@dccouncil.us MR. GRAHAM, Your graduation from law school appears to have weakened your being able to relate to the fact that after hundreds of millions of dollars were used for the creation of the DC City Council that CONGRESS still wastes even more HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS that are REQUIRED TO MAINTAIN THE SENATE AND HOUSE DC APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEES. IT IS STILL CONGRESS THAT DECIDES HOW MUCH MONEY DC RESIDENTS WILL GET. Not you guys! These following "committees" allow whoever wins an election to get lost. Kwame Brown and Mary Cheh are members of the Public Works Committee and I haven't seen either of them at the last two hearings that you held and ended up being the only DC City Council member in attendance. Despite their both being members of the Public Works Committee I've yet to receive any manner of response to my direct address to them in concern of this matter. I think its time that DC residents get what they need rather than to allow the DC City Council to continue to waste millions of dollars in taking care of meaningless committees just like Congress told them to do. Committee Of the Whole (COW) Vincent C. Gray, Chairperson All Members Committee on Economic Development Kwame R. Brown, Chairperson Jack Evans Carol Schwartz Ward 4 Councilmember Ward 7 Councilmember Committee on Finance and Revenue Jack Evans, Chairperson David A. Catania Marion Barry Jim Graham Kwame R. Brown Committee on Health David A. Catania, Chairperson Phil Mendelson Marion Barry Harry Thomas, Jr. Tommy Wells Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs Marion Barry, Chairperson Phil Mendelson Jim Graham Ward 4 Councilmember Ward 7 Councilmember Committee on Human Services Tommy Wells, Chairperson Marion Barry Carol Schwartz Phil Mendelson Harry Thomas, Jr. Committee on Libraries, Parks and Recreation Harry Thomas, Jr., Chairperson Carol Schwartz David A. Catania Phil Mendelson Tommy Wells Committee on the Public Safety and Judiciary Phil Mendelson, Chairperson Jack Evans Mary Cheh Ward 4 Councilmember Ward 7 Councilmember Committee on Public Services and Consumer Affairs Mary Cheh, Chairperson Jim Graham Marion Barry Kwame R. Brown Tommy Wells Committee on Public Works and the Environment Jim Graham, Chairperson Kwame R. Brown Mary Cheh Ward 4 Councilmember Ward 7 Councilmember Committee on Workforce Development and Government Operations Carol Schwartz, Chairperson Marion Barry Kwame R. Brown Harry Thomas, Jr. Mary Cheh

Slick Willie, You sit back and come up with every theory possible to save an explosion. I look forward to helping to face and eliminate the problems that our children are having in receiving quality education. Don't hide , come on out and meet with your fellow concerned adults willing to build the strength of the DC community and no longer just that Ward 1,2,3,4 crap. There are four sections of this city and everybody should know that. Why do we need 8 council members? Who came up with that idea and has played with it ever since to further and further divide the residents of the most oppressed community at least on the East Coast. Mayor Fenty, I am one of tens of thousands of proud graduates of the DC Public Schools still living in DC or in the nearby area of Washington DC. My graduation from Joel Elias Spingarn High School in 1970 and American University in 1975 allowed me to begin having years of service as a substitute,temporary teacher for the DCPS as well as years of service as a GED Instructor for the DC Potomac Job Corp, The Cedar Knoll Correctional Facility and the DC Public Schools. I have been providing my resume to several of the 26 GED programs in my effort to volunteer my time and service. I will be contacting your scheduling department to see if I can receive any assistance from your administration in addressing Judge Diaz having ruined my career as a teacher in 1994. I was attacked by a DC Police Officer at the Birdie Backus Middle School and falsely charged initially with having "Attacked a DC Police Officer. ("DC Officer Knocks Out Teacher", Washington Post 05/07/94) My success in dismissing the shallow efforts of two court appointed attorneys motivated the DC government to "no paper" the initial charge and yet still face a charge of "Simple Assault." I was able to receive the services of a Georgetown University Law School Professor supervising a recent graduate and having a Jury finding to me to be "Not Guilty." Despite this success in facing a false charge my career was unfortunately ended as a teacher in 1994 due to the strange choice on the part of Judge Diaz to insult me and pull an administrative trick in that he refused to expunge my arrest record. My effort to appeal this insulting decision by Judge Diaz was strangely met by the DC government insisting that in order for me to be qualify to have my arrest record expunged I would first need to prove my being innocent. My lack of training in law left me confused and I asked Judge Diaz in my appeal of his decision just why would I need to prove myself innocent of a charge when a Jury had already found me to be "Not Guilty." Your trained insight and assistance will be greatly appreciated in respect to better enlightening me on how I can possibly return to teaching and not be considered to be a violent man due to false charges of my having expressed violence against a DC Police Officer. The DC Police Officer who had attacked and arrested me admitted under questioning before the Jury of his having faced several complaints and attempted charges during his career as a DC Police Officer of his having attacked several children and adults. If at all possible I would like to talk with you or someone in your administration of the means that you will use to make sure that the violent manner of only a few DC Police Officers not insult DC residents as well as ruin the impression of so many responsible DC Police Officers. My having years of background in serving as an Educator allowed me to know of the importance in developing study skills as well as in providing tutorial services for the benefit of my students and effectively expanding the learning experience for my students far beyond 9am - 3pm. Your effort to improve the quality of the education that is provided for DC youth and adults has so far been primarily expressed in respect to your plans to control the function of the DC Board of Education. In my effort to stimulate the address to the academic needs of DC youth and the very corrupt regulation of the DC Taxicab Zone System I have submitted the attached material to the City Paper. I cannot find myself at sincerely addressing this issue unless I do my best to address the same data to you as you serve as the newly elected Mayor of the District of Columbia. I submit the attached material in trust that your goals can be soon be graduated at providing DC youth with far more reliable and popular means of receiving and providing tutorial service. Positive Peer pressure proved to be extremely valuable to my students through my years of teaching experience. The community service requirement of all Seniors of the DC Public Schools should already be boasting of the success of training just a fraction of the Seniors of the DC Public Schools at being skilled at providing tutorial assistance to their nearby little brothers and sisters at neighboring elementary schools. I will trust that you will not disagree that there is a need for the DC community to have far more very active tutorial programs for the benefit of students and parents. My frequent contact with your office has allowed me to be informed of your administration only having plans to take over the Board of Education. Time is valuable and a lot can be designed and provided by ANC's, City Council members, Mayors, and even our Congressional Delegate between now and September of 2007 for the benefit of better addressing the academic needs of DC youth. The question that you will hopefully very impressively answer through the years of your administration will be: "Will your administration be known for impressively expanding the resources needed to measurably improving the quality of education in DC schools? I look forward to receiving feedback from your office that will allow me to assist you in building more active academic resources within all areas of the DC community. Karl Rudder

Willie, Your indulging into the growing nonsense from just the Fenty administration can be saved by your realizing that DC and every aspect of Home Rule hasn't ever been anything but a Congressional joke. There are reports of an uncontrollable sound of laughter being heard in the halls of Congress ever since Congress appointed Water Washington as the first Acting Mayor for Washington DC. I hold that the recent "election" of Fenty to be just as valid a preferance of DC residents as was Walter Washington's first "election." Your merely questioning and challenging their main political puppet for DC keeps Congress very happy. I was taught that in order to solve a problem it is best to research, identify and address the cause of that problem. Fenty coming or going is not the problem. The problem is: A) _____ Congress _____ the news media C)_____ Chair and members of the DC City Council D) _____ the 19 sudden candidates for Ward 4 E) _____ the 18 sudden candidates for Ward 7 F) ______ all the above G)________________________________________ (other) Your response will be appreciated.

Luke, I will do my best to continue to contact Margarita Correa 202-727-6165 to volunteer my services as a tutor for students of the DC Public Schools. Your providing her email address has allowed me a means to comfortably share my resume of having served as a substitute, temporary and GED Instructor for the DC Public Schools. I am sure you know that there is an intense need to expand the learning experience for the youth of DC, Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit and throughout this country far beyond the hours of merely 9am - 3pm. I look forward to seeing this issue as being far more than just a means for many American politicians to practice expressing their rhetorical skills. "It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 1979

Mayor Fenty, You gave a very lengthy speech in early January 2007 in respect to your intentions of addressing the DC PUblic Schools. You ended that speech by saying, Time is valuable Mr. Mayor and DC residents deserve far more than just hearing one nice sounding speech from you or any DC City Council member in respect to improving the activities and output of the DC public schools. I pray that your office will soon be announcing the coordination of graduate students in education presently attending Howard University, The University of the District of Columbia, American University, Catholic University, George Washington University, Georgetown University to work with many other resources at providing active tutorial workshops for DC students and parents. The end of that long January speech of yours centered on the me of the issue and not at all on the we of the issue. The answer to this and many other issues in the DC comunity little brother is the strength of the we who are involved in addressing that issue and not just the me.

BlingBling, Your right. I had read the previous message and had totally skipped over the big stupid face HA Ha. I had read your response and had attached it to the wrong previous message. Please excuse the mistake.

BlingBling, Among your many questions that you sent me I found your choosing to express, "1. You stated an initial email that is not posted here on the boards, so I cannot refer to that." I referred to an initial email BlingBling. I did not state an initial email. Matter of fact I don't have the slightest idea how anyone can be known to have, "stated an initial email." Please at your convenience review the attached email and see this email from Tenac as having listed the Benning Rd. Library as being of their concern. Golly gee willikers guy. The Benning Rd. Library has been closed for several years so I wanted Tenac to enlighten me on just what was it doing on their list of concerns. Forwarded Message: Subj: [tenac] REMINDER: Public Property Action Summit! Sat March 10th! Reeves Center - EmpowerDC Date: 3/10/2007 9:08:30 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time From: tenacdc@yahoo.com Reply-to: tenac@lists.riseup.net To: tenac@lists.riseup.net Sent from the Internet (Details) To: tenacdc@yahoo.com --- Parisa Norouzi <parisa@empowerdc.org> wrote: Subject: REMINDER: Public Property Action Summit! Sat March 10th PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY - THIS IMPACTS ALL RESIDENTS! School Buildings, Libraries, Park Lands and More..... Public Property for Public Use! NOT Private Profit! Community Action Summit on Public Property Saturday, March 10th 1-4 PM Reeves Center, 14th & U Sts, NW 2nd floor (Bring id to enter building, U St Metro) Arrive on time - Space is limited For Information Contact Empower DC (202) 234-9119, parisa@empowerdc.org Hear from community residents mobilizing to save threatened public properties including: Alexander Crummell School (Ivy City) Franklin School Shelter for the Homeless Poplar Point (Anacostia Park) Benning Library & other community Libraries The coming threat of school closings and the Mayoral take over. Look at the BIG PICTURE of Public Property being LOST in DC MANY schools turned CONDOS for the RICH While Community Needs Go Unmet! *This event includes a special presentation of a play about public property! Come together to demand: PUBLIC PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC USE NOT PRIVATE PROFIT! Recreation, Community Centers, Affordable Housing, Job Training - NOT Condos for the Rich! COME TOGETHER TO RECLAIM OUR RIGHTS TO PUBLIC PROPERTY - & TAKE COLLECTIVE ACTION!! For more information please contact Empower DC (202) 234-9119 Parisa B. Norouzi parisa@empowerdc.org Co-Director/Organizer District of Columbia Grassroots Empowerment Project (Empower DC) 1419 V St, NW Washington, DC 20009 202) 234-9119 TENAC, the D.C. Tenants' Advocacy Coalition is asking 1,000 people to actively support the "D.C. Mobilization for Tenants' Rights & Affordable Housing" campaign. Click http://www.tenac.org/ to support the "D.C. Mobilization for Tenants' Rights & Affordable Housing" campaign. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ ======================================================================== TENAC's web site: http://tenac.org TENAC's Mobalization list archive: http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/tenac ========================================================================

BlingBling, Your psychic skills should be more constructively employed. I am sure many of us in the DC community are looking forward to your announcing your providing your tutorial skills so that you could help many develop their spelling skills. Is that an element of your concern or were you just crying. I have had the misfortune of being able to witness your expressing much bigger tantrums on little issues before. Did you not know that the best vitamin to being a friend is B1? Gore will not run for president. He is the overweight meathead who is serving the needs of the news media by allowing himself to be an element of their "reporting" for a couple of days. "Oh the games people play now, every night and everyday now, never saying what they mean, never meaning what they say." My bet is you haven't been helped yet in coming to know that homo sapiens existing within silicon oxide domiciles should refrain from ejaculating geo-physical substances.

Must an "educational service" to the residents of a community be limited to nothing more than educating us about our rights as tenants? I trust you know that in this violent society of today in these United States that many of our children are not making it into high school and many others are having exteme challenges to go beyond high school. Allow me to share Tenac's pledge. In respect to my eagerness to see resources grow in the many DC communities I am greatly disappointed that Tenac has been in operation for many years and has not chosen to better invest its resources into trying to provide much needed educational service for the residents that it says it is supposedly promising to service. "TENAC is a non-profit, public service organization dedicated exclusively to tenant interests, tenant rights, and support for rent control in the District of Columbia. We are the only city-wide tenants organization, and we represent all tenants in the District of Columbia. As a legal successor to the Tenants' Organizations Political Action Committee (TOPAC), we have been serving tenants for almost 15 years. TENAC's mission is to assist tenants through education, legal information, and lobbying for tenant legislation- especially affordable housing and tenants' rights. TENAC prepares legislative proposals on behalf of tenants, and testifies frequently before the City Council on matters of vital interest to tenants. Of critical importance is TENAC's HOTLINE (202-628-3688), which answers landlord/tenant questions, and TENAC's role in helping tenants to form tenant associations throughout the city. TENAC believes that tenants in unorganized rental buildings are open for abuse by landlords, rental agents, and owners. We will not rest until we see a tenants' association in every rental building in the city.

Bling Bling, I appreciate your detailed response. I will enjoy reading it and trying to answer all of your questions. Please notice the date of that the attached email was sent to me and the date of their meeting. This is how you sell advertisement on your email notices and not how you service a community. As a American citizen I believe that the strength of each community in this country to be able to become more coordinated and measurably productive in developing active tutorial programs in Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, New York- how many cities do I need to name? I am not just talking about improving the quality of education for the youth of DC. I was trying to stimualte an effort at providing a national model in achieving such a goal. At addressing a national problem. Despite a Jury finding me to be "Not Guilty" Judge Diaz in 1995 shocked me and refused to expunge my arrest record for the false charge of "Assaulting A DC Police Officer". My contact with the DC Public Schools was terminated by Judge Diaz's decision. You have so far impressed me as one who believes that a community organization that says it devotes itself to serving the needs of the tenants of that community need not in any shape, manner or form be creative and provide productive academic tutorial sessions for the children and adults of that community that they say they are serving. Right? I have faith that by September I'll find a means to return to enjoying the development of the reading, writing and math academic skills of GED candidates in the District of Columbia. I greatly appreciate DCPages.com in serving as a reliable means for me to continue to invite just a small fraction of the tens of thousands of proud graduates of the DC Public Schools as well as interested adults and college students to begin to start working as a team for the benefit of DC youth. Please let me know clearly in any future response- ______ should the DC community continue to limit our youth's academic skills being able to served by those who have been hired and work for the DC Public Schools between the hours of 9am -3pm ______ can the many churches and communty organizations begin now to better design programs that will greatly strengthen the study skills and academic output of our youth? Please check just one. Thanks Forwarded Message: Subj: [tenac] TAC (Tenant Advisory Council) Meeting, 3/8/07 Date: 3/7/2007 3:12:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time From: tenacdc@yahoo.com Reply-to: tenac@lists.riseup.net To: tenac@lists.riseup.net Sent from the Internet (Details) TENANT ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING WHEN: THURSDAY, March 8, 2007 TIME: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Washington Highlands Library 115 Atlantic Street, SW (near Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue) ____________________________ Nearest Metro Station is Congress Heights Metro Station. If you use the Anacostia Metro Station you can transfer to the A4 or A8 Metro Bus. Bus Routes – A4 and A8 travel Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue. Check the following Web address http://www.wmata.com/metrobus/maps/dc.pdf for the best bus from your area of town. __________________________________ The Tenant Advisory Council (TAC) is composed of ward representatives appointed by the mayor who are committed to tenant advocacy. TAC is charged with the responsibility of reviewing the Office of the Tenant Advocate’s (OTA) progress in fulfilling its mandate and making recommendations designed to improve services offered by the OTA. The OTA (202.442.8359) is a newly created office to assist tenants in resolving housing issues. TENAC, the D.C. Tenants' Advocacy Coalition is asking 1,000 people to actively support the "D.C. Mobilization for Tenants' Rights & Affordable Housing" campaign. Click http://www.tenac.org/ to support the "D.C. Mobilization for Tenants' Rights & Affordable Housing" campaign. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 ======================================================================== TENAC's web site: http://tenac.org TENAC's Mobalization list archive: http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/tenac ========================================================================

I appreciate your insight on the upcoming events on April 16, 2007. I will certainly do my best before the event to help address this need of DC residents to be actively represented in the Congress. There's a long way to go beyond just having one vote to have true Justice in DC. The very costly Senate and House DC Appropriations Act is part of this unique American problem. The very slow, insulting approach by Congress in addressing this entire issue deserves a far more open examination and effective address. I am in trust that the clear majority of DC residents will not all just roll over and play dead should Congress finally allow DC residents an active voice in the just the House with one vote while states with less population than DC are still allowed to have two Senators and a number of Representatives in the House.

Here is my initial address to TENAC about their failure to respond to the needs of DC residents located in Ward 7. Here is Jeanne Williams of TENAC response: Here is my second email response to Ms. Williams. This is how Real Tenac will be in addressing an issue! When did I ask for Tenac to remove my name from their list? Right After I receive the far from warm welcome from Ms. Williams she responds to the email that I had sent her at 6:09pm by letting me know- At last but not least I finally am allowed to hear from the Boss of Tenac - I find it amusing that Jim Mcgrath cannot express himself to me any better than to just cry out to me: My response to this insulting address from Jim McGrath-

03/19/07 (4:11pm) Mr. Gray, Allow the attached to help you see that I am a man of action. What is holding my cousin back from being active and having the development of tutorial services for DC Youth being one of the top issues that you are working on right now for the benefit of the upcoming school year. C'mon now cousin. I am sure you're not scared of the kid. Don't be scared of Congress. All we are suffering right now is a failure to communicate. You are the Chair of the DC City Council and I don't hear you speak up so all of us can hear of your sincere intentions in this direction and effectively dealing with this simple issue !! Check out Karl Rudder's new means of communicating with DC residents and anyone else who might be interested - its called DCpages.com. A political quicky from Mr. Vincent Gray, Chair of the DC City Council 03/19/07 6:22pm A political quicky like this effort from Vincent Gray, Chair of the DC City Council in my scale of values completely fails to effectively address an issue. Please contact Cantania, Cheh, Brown and Graham to ask them on their views and efforts to address and improve the quality of education being provided to DC residents and I am sure we might end up with the material for a new book entitled, "Political Quickies!!"

To be talking about there always have been American citizens who had always been denied any control of their own tax revenue would appear to pretty silly. As a native Washingtonian I cannot wait to see how after the centuries of growth that this country has experienced that somehow there has yet to be a sincere effort at ending the tens of billions of dollars of tax revenue that has been wasted only for the operation of the Senate and House DC Appropriations Committees. Lets be serious about this issue and let all American citizens receive at least one good series of NEWS SPECIALS that will allow us to see and hear from politicians from Michigan or Idaho explain what efforts they are reliably exerting in relating to and addressing the needs of their constituents as well as to the residents of the capital city of The United States of America. In order for DC residents to get the best out of their politicians we have to hope whoever is on the Senate or House DC Appropriations Committee votes our way when they decide how much money they will "appropriate" for DC residents. Where are the members of the DC City Council? I don't hear any of them saying a thing to Congress and all I hear Delegate Norton addressing is her gaining an ability to attract corporate interests with her finally being allowed to have a vote. Game Time with this issue is over! The Constitution has received several amendments since it was initially composed you know.

Slick Willie, Allow me to start this morning and this week off by doing my best to try and help you develop your basic research skills. By your checking the "About Me" section of my Blog on "The Unchallenged DC Taxicab Zone system" you will come to know a little about me. Let me refer to the fact here and now that I am a native Washingtonian who had opportunity to attend and graduate from Joel Elias Spingarn High School in 1970 to attend and graduate from American University in 1975. Since then I have been employed by the DC Public School as a substitute and temporary teacher, served as a GED Instructor for teens at the Potomac Job Corp as well as the Cedar Knoll Correctional Facility as a GED Instructor. My professional career was ruined in 1994 when a DC Police Officer attacked me as I was finishing a year as the Special Education Instructor at the Birdie Backus Elementary School which was very poorly reported by Ruben Castaneda of the Washington Post on 5/7/94 with a very insulting article entitiled"DC Officer Knocks Out Teacher" I was required to dismiss two Court appointed attorneys due to their insistence that my best bet was to plea bargain. I knew that Officer Christopher Hester had no right to attack me, that I had not given the short little non-basketball playing DC police officer any reason to be mad at me other than my beating him in a one on one basketball game the previous day as we were the only ones showing up at the school gym to get ready for the upcoming staff vs students basketball game. I obtained assistance from a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law School and he supervised the effort of a recent law school graduate to have the Jury return a verdict of their finding me to be "Not Guilty" of Simple Assault against DC Police officer Christopher Hester. Judge Diaz in the end unfortunately threw in his bigoted view that he was refusing to expunge my arrest record and so since that time I have been viewed as being a dangerous person who had initially been charged with the felony of assaulting a police officer which the DC gov't conveniently replaced with a misdemeanor of only a charge of "simple assault" once the DC government saw me having the confidence to dismiss two Court appointed attorneys and allow a Georgetown University Law School Professor to accept my case and allow myself my right to a trial. How do you find a Jury finding me to be Not Guilty of a fake charge yet my career was still ruined by an expression of Just Us from Judge Diaz. Please spare me any unsupported theories that I trust you have many to deliver. Any response to me that has your expressing a view of the Just us (not justice) manner of law of this country should be supported by referral to several cases. If I had been able to have the resources to hire a skilled lawyer I would've never been denied the permanent position and further employment as a Special Education Instructor at the Birdie Backus Middle School in 1995. I had been interviewed and offered a permament position as the Special Ed. Instructor for Birdie Backus middle school. Judge Diaz ruined my career by insisting that all future employees falsely be informed that I had a violent, criminal background of being charged and tried on a charge of simple assault against a DC Police Officer. Despite my standing up to that effort by the DC Police Dept. and having a Jury finding me to be "Not Guilty" of the charge against me. Judge Diaz pulled a little trick and has been able to remove me from my career. My surviving since that time by finding other jobs has not at all kept me happy. I will employ myself from this year on at returning to the profession of teaching. I had tried time and time again to eliminate the very restrictive results of my being able to be employed as a teacher due to the insulting decision that ruined my career in 1995 by Judge Diaz. My ability to volunteer my service as a GED Instructor at the DC Jail as well as my growing contact with other organizations in DC will be my means of returning to my chosen profession. I have trust that in the near future you will hear of my success at inviting just a fraction of the many thousands of proud graduates of the DC Public Schools to begin to coordinate with the many other vast resources of the DC community so that we can do our best during the upcoming school year at providing quality education to our little brothers and sisters in the DC community. I will let every student that I work with know that pointing a gun is an element of sickness and that smiling will always be the cheapest and most reliable means to improve their looks. You may have read what I just wrote but as long as I view your opinions with a picture of your pointing a gun at me I will accept that you fail to have the slightest idea of what I meant. (In education we refer to that as "reading comprehension")

To Whomever It May Concern, On one sentence you say that Vincent Gray is a Dr. Frankenstein and that you are his monster and yet the very next sentence has you refer to the fact that, Vincent taught had taught you to be honest, straight shooting and never pull punches or I would be the one laying on my back." And that is all that you state in your presentation. My reading and writing skills require me to be consistent. If I were to be critical of Vincent Gray I will refer to the fact that he is the Chair of the DC City Council and yet he has remained totally divorced from addressing the corrupt regulation of the DC TAxicab Industry as well as not being instrumental in developing the vast resources of the DC community for the benefit of improving the quality of education for all children in DC and not just those who attended his having attended Dunbar High School here in Washington DC. What issues are you challenging Vincent Gray on or am I asking too much from a monster that Vincent Gray created? Look up Truth in a dictionary and maybe through that means you will know what I am trying to relate to when addressing the DC City Council. I find your presentation on Vincent Gray to better related to some of the material in one of my earlier textbooks on Psychology under the chapter, "Why do babies cry!"

To Whom It May Concern, Your continued weak effort at throwing pebbles at the Fenty administration still relies on very general rhetoric. You refer to the DC Vote and DC Appleseed as being "racists" groups but you don't fail to be specific with how, when, why had they ever impressed you in such a manner. You remind me of the little one who inisists on calling their peers stupid names. I have to keep telling my many students to ignore that lemon head and I assure my students that if names hurt their parents and previous generations would never had made it and we all would have been killed by the many names that we all had been called. I suggest you graduate and get off of calling people names and in a more detailed manner be prepared to challenge anyone you find with the details of an issue that you see they have failed to address and as a result has kept political organizations, DC Mayors or City Council members to truly be serving DC residents. Calling someone a racists is easy. Can you support such a choice?