Kwame Brown's Bitchin Ride

[Anonymous]

Why does it need to be "fully loaded?" I thought the lease price for even one SUV was outrageous. Makes Fenty's Smart Car (and lack of driver) look pretty good. Too bad his attitude cost him the election.

[Anonymous]

who cares about his attitude? at least there was a possibility he was competent.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jeff, you and I have argued about politics before. Until we stop this one party rule in this city we'll continue to have no accountability. Jack Evans as council chair would have been a far better choice than Kwame, but the demographics of DC havent evolved enough to allow that.

If you want to get rid of one party rule, then Republicans have to have the gonads to move into the District. No one is going to hold their hand and beg them to come. Until then, those who are feeling sorry for themselves about the lack of Republicans should chill out.

I'd like to see a return to strength of the Statehood Party. It should ditch the Green label and go back to its roots. If progressive Dems would move to the Statehood party and the Fenty/Evans Dems moved to the Republicans, Kwame and Gray and their $2 grand a month Navigators could make up the Democratic Party. Then, we might have better checks and balances.

I absolutely agree. Most local parties deviate so much from the national party that they are really a bastardized copy. I'd happily vote republican locally to keep A check on our budget etc. The waste in this city is Terrible

[Anonymous]

Style matters. Fenty will be missed in a few years when everyone realizes that it's back to business as usual in DC. Its a unique cauldron of race, one-party monopoly, rigid class divisions, and third world style governing. Oh, the changes that are coming. I can't wait for Vincent Orange to select his car interior! Marion Barry will, of course, ask for a white interior.

Anonymous wrote:Why does it need to be "fully loaded?" I thought the lease price for even one SUV was outrageous. Makes Fenty's Smart Car (and lack of driver) look pretty good. Too bad his attitude cost him the election.

[Anonymous]

Wow, Cherita Williams beat out 66 other applicants for a "newly created" special assistant job at $65,000 per year. According to The Washington Times, she attended high school but didn't complete 11th grade. Can this be true?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/16/friend-of-gray-hired-for-dc-job/

[Anonymous]

08:11 here. I forgot the part about her being a convicted felon who pled guilty in 2001 and spent 22 months in jail after diverting funds from her job as a payroll manager to friends and a relative. She was also charged with a variety of other things in the 90s (passig bad checks, etc).

[jsteele]

Cherita probably deserves her own thread. I am an acquaintance of hers, as I'd guess just about any politically-active person in Ward 4 would be. There are others in this forum who know her a lot better than I do. But, I'm pretty sure that most people would agree that Cherita is nobody's crony. She is extremely strong-willed and will do what she thinks is best, regardless of the consequences. It's for that reason -- more than her high school or criminal record -- that I am surprised Gray hired her. She may turn out to be a bit of a lose cannon. That said, given how the position is described in the Washington Times, she probably would be pretty good at it. One thing for sure is that the hiring will piss off a lot of people. I can imagine a number of heads exploding over this.

Edit: BTW, I didn't even notice when I replied, but the previous poster has Cherita's last name wrong. It's "Whiting" rather than "Williams".

[Anonymous]

embarrassing. is the dc govt a jobs program?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:embarrassing. is the dc govt a jobs program?

hahahahaha. pretty much.

[jsteele]

While the hiring of Cherita Whiting's hiring will likely generate a lot of controversy, the true travesty is the hiring of Sulaimon Brown. That is enough to make me question Gray's sanity.

[Anonymous]

Statehood/Greens? Really, Jeff? Really? Every time I have been at a local political meeting the Statehood Green players always come off as impractical left-wing ideologues. They are the first ones to advocate raising taxes in order to "Save Our Safety Net" while completely failing to acknowledge that the problem is not that the District collects too little revenue, but that the revenue that is collected is spread around to unqualified city workers and contractors based on the "Friends & Family" plan.

A number of the Statehood Greens also embrace tenant advocacy policies that are absolutely economically unreasonable--all landlords are evil, tenants should have a right to stay in the building of their choice, in the neighborhood they want, for as long as they want, at the level they want to pay.

You can keep the Statehood Greens---they are almost a Saturday Night Live parody of left wing politics run amok, and as long as their voices are the ones associated with statehood for the District---we will never get it.

Kwame's "bitchin ride" turns my stomach. I didn't vote for him precisely because his personal financial situation indicated that he was fiscally irresponsible. This just proves it. What is Mary Cheh---a huge supporter of his---saying now?

[Anonymous]

Ah, democracy. Where the people always get the government they deserve, and they get it good and hard.

[Anonymous]

Please e-mail Kwame Brown directly to tell him what you think:

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Please feel free to flood his inbox. I, like an previous poster, was hesitant to vote for him when news of how he mismanaged his personal finances was revealed, but I also thought that he would go out of his way to prove to voters that he had changed. I was wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ah, democracy. Where the people always get the government they deserve, and they get it good and hard.

True unless you are in Wisconsin where the losers run away, bastardize the system, and refuse to play the game. Hopefully they will be recalled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please e-mail Kwame Brown directly to tell him what you think:

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Please feel free to flood his inbox. I, like an previous poster, was hesitant to vote for him when news of how he mismanaged his personal finances was revealed, but I also thought that he would go out of his way to prove to voters that he had changed. I was wrong.

That is because you are naive. A a bit of a dim watt bulb. Sorry but that is true. To think that a politician who has a personal spending problem would all of a sudden change when he is put in a position with more power and more money is just the kind of thinking that crafty corrupt pols use to get elected. It hasn't even been 6 months and the true Gray-Brown colors are showing. But that Fenty was an asshole right so you people voted him out. Didn't matter that he tried to move away from typical DC racial politics, well now enjoy your good old days. Tax hikes are coming next.