January 10, 2006
Breaking News: Barry Again in Cocaine Trouble
The Washington Post reports this evening that former Mayor and current D.C. Council member Marion Barry has again run into trouble with drugs. In a court-ordered drug test that followed a guilty plea on misdemeanor tax charges, Barry tested positive for cocaine use. The positive test increases the chance that Barry will serve time for his six-year failure to file tax returns. Barry was convicted of misdemeanor possession of cocaine in 1990.
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Jesus. I wonder what guys like Jaffe are going to make of this.
did we really think barry was off the crack? come on . . .
i'm waiting for the revelation that he robbed himself at gunpoint. good for barry, there were no cameras in his room at the time.
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Obviously the above post is from that high-spirited li'l rapscallion J.R. "Got My Ass Handed to Me On DC Pages Today" Rees.
Posted by:_____, I think Rees did not post anything on the net after 2PM this afternoon when he got busted up in Baltimore County for a lunch time DUI, did not have cash to post bail and is locked up until tomorrow as I understand it and will appear in court tomorrow morning with his or an attorney listed in Westminister, Maryland named K.D. Saylor.
This time round, we cannot pin anything on his ass and now we must ask who is it and who was posting in his name over on DC Pages this afternoon and early evening?
This is scary and surely he will have evidence in the future to say he could not have done what others say he did.
Are we talking about Jon Rees the guy running for office?
Well, I use to live next to him over on 17th Street NW in Mount Pleasant as he lived there for years next door to Councilman David Clark. Mr. Clark and his wife Maria died within a short period of time of each other.
I dated him about a year after his wife died and then he moved up to the Cathedral area in 2001.
Damn, I could tell you some stories about him.
I think that it is time that we treat drug abuse the same way we treat abuse of alcohol. By this, I mean, decriminalize its use and stop packing our jails with users but assist with alternative remedies not prison terms.
I just had a horrifying experience.
I looked at the pictures here on DCist of Ryan Avent and Martin Andres Austermuhle.
Ryan, you look like the high priest for the Church of Satan.
Martin, you look like a pitbull dog with a black leash around your neck.
Ban me for this but damn you two are ugly as shit!
Barry on Crack? Shocking! I burst out laughing when they reported it.
Did anyone really think he was clean? Think about it, he's told us he's friends with the drug dealers, prostitutes and thugs.
Baseball set me up!
When Barry was robbed last week, the first thing that came to mind was a drug deal that went bad. I was surprised that this wasn't probed by the media.
Anyway, this will have no effect on his support from Ward 8 and I don't think many in this city are surprised.
This is the legacy of a civil rights leader? The public man is a disgrace, and not because of this latest incident. All he's got left are the 8,000 people, or whatever, who voted for him last time. He means nothing to anyone else.
Wonder what the private Barry is like...
To "Eyes On Rees," who reported that Rees was arrested for drunk driving in Baltimore and couldn't have posted on DCist: Nobody should believe that lie. Rees was all over DC Pages, www.dcpages.com, yesterday. (If you really want to see how nutty Rees is, DC Pages is where he's completely unglued.) I think that the assumption has to be: If there's a post that's pro-Rees, anti-Sam Brooks, or by Jonathan Rees, it's a lie. Pure and simple.
Jim Graham was just interviewed on WUSA, making excuses for Barry and treating it like no big deal.
The District has a serious violent crime problem. Our leaders keep telling us that most of it is drug-related.
So we have one of those leaders using drugs and, whether deliberate or not, setting an example that drug use must be ok. After all, actions speak louder than words.
The Jim Graham goes on the air and refuses to say anything negative about Barry or his drug use.
It is no wonder that the District has such serious drug-related violent crime when our disgusting forked-tongue politicians condemn drug use one day and do it or condone it the next.
Anon...Never be too sure that what you read is true as I have seen it all as a ploy by both those guys to get free media coverage.
Brooks pulled that shit here on the web in 2004, he is doing it again, Rees is doing it, Bolden is spamming people with claims that Mendelsohn is for sale.
What I am saying it, never put it past them to be working hand in hand to help each other get media coverage and not see it as some sick shit as all politicians do it on one form or another.
You respond to their stuff Anon and they have achieved what they have set out to do.
Again? Please enough already.
Fuck Rees and you too. Unless you can prove what you say, take your bullshit somewhere else as we are tired of this shit.
Thanks to all your jerks who cannot control yourselves and accuse Rees of every posting you dislike whether or not he has posted them, you are giving him what he wants and that is having his named mentioned.
I would bet people know his name better than they do the writers here on DCist thanks you jerks who play right into his hands and that makes him smarter than you.
This Rees stuff is f***ing annoying and incomprehensible.
As for Barry, can't he be banned from working in DC government?
As for DCist's photos, it is true that Ryan and Martin are objectively ugly, but what blew me away from the staff photos was how white these people are.
I counted 22 white staff members, 1 black guy (in sports) and 1 indian looking chick.
So, DC is 60% black but DCist is 92% white. Wow!
OTOH, this city is a disgusting racist seggregated mess, it's really two completely separate cities. On this side of the gentrification border I wouldn't doubt that it is 90% white.
So I propose that this site be renamed to gentrifiedDCist.com
ah, miguel. you remind me of the reason i miss typekey.
as for dcist's diversity, i think it's certainly a reasonable point to bring up. but, for whatever terrible reason, it's a fact of journalism (and yes, i consider dcist as part of the journalistic establishment in dc, flame away) today that the majority of people involved in it are white. i have no idea why this is, and i think every step should be taken to remedy it, but it's a fact. i read a report released last year that white journalists make up 90 percent of reporters and editors in washington bureaus (the washington post's newsroom was 81% white, according to the report). i'm at journalism school right now, and the majority is certainly white. frankly it's kind of freaky.
anyway, if you're a minority and wanted to write for dcist, either about minority issues or whatever else, i'm positive the editors would be happy to hear from you.
Anonymously insulting someone's looks on the internet? Jesus, how pathetic can you get? Seriously, go crawl back to LiveJournal.
As for the somewhat more substantive criticism about DCist's racial makeup -- recruiting is done over email, and is therefore about as colorblind as possible. Contributors are frequently only met face to face after they've been working on the site for a while. It's a shame, but most blog readers in this city are probably white (see also: digital divide), and consequently so are the bloggers.
I think I speak for the rest of the staff when I say that we'd love to have more diversity in our ranks. For example, we've wanted someone to cover gay issues for a while, we could certainly use someone covering issues specific to the black community in the city, and we've wanted a music person to cover GoGo for a long time (obviously this latter person wouldn't have to be black, but since the GoGo scene in this city is predominantly an African-American, odds are good that that writer would be as well).
As always, anyone who would like to write for DCist should get in touch with someone from the staff.
I actually write for the music section and have been trying to figure out what acts to see in the GoGo and soul music scene in DC, so if you have any suggestions, let me at 'em.
Huh. Funny. My mother just said she thought I was a cutie.
Anyhow, as for the criticisms of the diversity of our staff, I have to echo what Tom just wrote. We are fully aware of the whiteness of our staff, and are fully committed to changing that. If anyone recognizes that we fall short on covering many issues of importance to the African-Americans that make up the majority of the District's population, it's us.
As for the attacks on our looks -- wow. Some people really scrape the bottom of the barrel for arguments against DCist. Worst of all are those not man or woman enough to post under their real name. In the world of online commenting, you're bottom-feeders.
On March 9, 2006, he was sentenced to three years probation for misdemeanor charges of failing to pay federal and local taxes, and continues to receive drug counseling.