jsteele wrote:Patrick Madden of WAMU connects the dots this morning:

http://wamu.org/news/14/07/25/catania_asks_bowser_to_return_contributions_lined_to_troubled_housing_complex

"In one case, a company called Trinity II, which lists Jones as its fiscal agent, received $5,000 dollars from Park Southern on May 7. About a month later, campaign finance records show a company called Trinity II — along with four others associated with Jones — made donations to Bowser."

So, a direct flow of money from Park Southern to Phinis Jones to the Bowser campaign.

I listed Jones-related contributions to Bowser in an earlier post. I noted that that I had not been able to identify as many contributions as the Washington Post had. I believe these are the missing donations:

Trinity II Corporation/ Business 225 Morgan St NW DC Washington DC 20001 $250.00 10/10/13
Trinity II Corporation/ Corporation 225 Morgan St NW DC Washington DC 20001 $1,000.00 3/10/14
Trinity II Corporation/ Corporation 225 Morgan St NW DC Washington DC 20001 $500.00 3/28/14
D&D Properties LLC/ Corporation 225 Morgan Street NW #103 Washignton DC 20001 $200.00 6/10/14
Trinity II Corporation/ Business 225 Morgan Street, NW #103 Washington DC 20001 $250.00 6/10/14

June 10 is the same date on which $8,000 worth of additional contributions that I identified were provided. It looks like Trinity II could not give more on that date because it was hitting the contribution limit.

Obviously, Bowser will do nothing to change the pay-for-play culture of DC politics. Meet the (potential) new boss. Same as the old boss.

jsteele wrote: It doesn't seem like Bowser has her story straight.

Anonymous wrote:Exactly. And sadly, so typical of DC politics. Whenever people wonder why DC has such a significant amount of multi-generational poverty unhelped by 30+ years of the most generous social services spending of any jurisdiction in the metro area---they should just think about this situation. Typical fraud, corruption, theft and abuse by middle class AA DC politicians, political hacks, and their friends & families against working poor and economically vulnerable low-income AA DC residents. And as long as Marion Barry and his ilk keep playing the race card in this city in order to camoflage who is really doing the screwing over of poor black folks, this type of crap will continue to happen. It is systemic.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Your post makes no sense. Exactly who do you think would attend a Barry event.

For its newsworthiness. Plus I'm not afraid of balck people, like yourself.

Anonymous wrote:
Your post makes no sense. Exactly who do you think would attend a Barry event.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly. And sadly, so typical of DC politics. Whenever people wonder why DC has such a significant amount of multi-generational poverty unhelped by 30+ years of the most generous social services spending of any jurisdiction in the metro area---they should just think about this situation. Typical fraud, corruption, theft and abuse by middle class AA DC politicians, political hacks, and their friends & families against working poor and economically vulnerable low-income AA DC residents. And as long as Marion Barry and his ilk keep playing the race card in this city in order to camoflage who is really doing the screwing over of poor black folks, this type of crap will continue to happen. It is systemic. [/quote

All of this is spot on. But you'd never know if you attended a[/b] Barry event. I attended his book event downtown and it was 75-25 Barry supporters.[b] A synopsis of the city's pathology.

Your post makes no sense. Exactly who do you think would attend a Barry event.