February 13, 2006
Professionalism in the Ward 3 Race
We know the size of the can of worms we face whenever we address issues in the campaign for the Ward 3 seat on the D.C. Council. Nonetheless, we're here to discuss the matters that are affecting Washington's residents and voters, and this certainly qualifies. Earlier today, we received the following email from a faithful DCist reader:
To whom it may concern,
I am forwarding the attached e-mail in the hopes that this person will realize exactly what the consequences for sending unsolicited e-mail can be.
I originally contacted jonathan.rees@rees-for-citycouncil.com to protest their constant marketing SPAM on cragislist.org. I made it clear that I was not supportive of their campaign for this reason. Since that time, they have added me to their mailing list without my permission and are sending unsolicited marketing SPAM to my e-mail address. When I responded and requested that they remove me from their distribution list, I got the e-mail that is attached below.
This is a ridiculous situation and the unprofessionalism is amazing. This team is knowingly and admittedly spamming and refuse to remove people whose e-mails they have added to their marketing lists without permission. Hopefully filing a complaint with the FTC and CCing members of the DC City Council and the Press will get the point across that marketing of this sort is not appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
[name redacted]
After the jump is the response she received from Rees, presented in all its glory.
We certainly pay attention to the actions of all of those running for office in the city. It's just that no one else gives us this kind of stuff to work with.
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It's as though a 2-year-old is running for the Ward 3 seat. As this point, why is he even bothering? It's a waste of time and money. But I know I'm preaching to the choir.
I'm pretty sure that like the do-not-call list, the anti-spam law does not apply to political organizations.
I'm missing Faith for mayor.
You want humor? Mr. Rees, in a note to voters via DC Watch (themail), said, "My political campaign consists of: 1) over 11,000 E-mail addresses to ward 3 voters, 2) mini flyers printed in the Dominican Republic at one sixth the price you would pay for them in DC..."
So I guess is plan is to SPAM the voters of Ward 3 and litter the streets with his foreign copied "mini-fliers". I hope the voters of Ward 3 tell him where to put his "mini-fliers". I know I will.
I would like to know where he was able to obtain this so-called list of 11,000 voters? Did he buy them? Were they "given" to him, and if so, by whom? As a Ward 3 voter, I have a right to know who may have violated my personal information. Was it a company, the city (who as far as I know, does not have an email address for me), or Rees himself?
Luke
Has anyone else noticed that Rees has, for some unknown reason, a banner ad for Collective Soul's online store at the bottom of his webpage? This guy is unbelievable. He's like a cartoon character, and just when you think he's gotten as crazy and out-of-touch with reality as is humanly possible, he raises the bar.
He'd most likely be terrible for the city, but I can safely say that I'd probably watch more Channel 10 if he were elected.
I think Rees made a critical error when he first decided to run for office. Ward 3 isn't big enough to contain his political talent. He should've run for mayor and shared his mad campaign skills with the entire city. Is it too late for a Draft-Rees-for-Mayor movement?
I think that Jonathan Rees' so-called campaign for City Council is an example of how easy it is to turn fiction into nonfiction on the web. Some people long ago came to the conclusion that Jonathan Rees' campaign for City Council is a absurd, and that his messages are strange and disturbing. But for many others, Rees' campaign seems real.
That he has been spamming forums and individuals throughout Washington, DC and the country should be enough to show that he's not who he says (or thinks) he is. Would any bona fide candidate for City Council post on Craig's List in Boston, Chicago and dozens of other cities around the country and the world? Would any candidate for City Council have a Yahoo profile even remotely like Rees's: http://profiles.yahoo.com/jrrees_1955 ?
Has anyone noticed that Rees has been deliberatly vague about where he works, has worked, and where he went to school. Basic stuff that any candidate should be able to reveal.
Even when somebody posts an bizarre message like "I see anti-smokers and their current cause in DC as being on the same mental wave length as abortion clinic bombers," as Rees did on the Tenleytown listserv last October 27th, a substantial number of people are still willing to accept that he's a credible candidate.
Eventually, Rees' campaign will have to evaporate. It takes money and a staff to run for DC City Council. But in the meanwhile, Jonathan Rees is another example of why nobody on the Internet knows you're a dog. And unfortunately, also in the meanwhile, he's annoying and harassing a lot of people who don't want to be contacted by him.
I'm wondering if Rees wouldn't work well in Spotsylvania's local government. Their innovative approach to governance matches Rees' "Call me crazy, but. . ." attitude. I see a real synergy of absolute lunacy. Moreover, I'm sure he'd find his governmental duties more pleasurable than a stint in boring old Ward 3.
So I'm guessing those Dominican Republic-fliers weren't printed in a union shop. Isn't that supposed to be a death knell for dems?
Every dem campaign knows better than to put out lit without the union bug at the bottom, despite the fact that union print shops are more expensive. What a brilliant man this guy is.
I am not a Ward 3 resident, but a friend of mine who is sent me this link:
http://www.dcmessageboards.com/index.php?showforum=193
The man has been at his crazy on-line antics since the summer. I had seen some posts on the above link to some DCist archives.
Some pretty good stuff. I feel bad for the people who have tried to challange Rees....he has a tendancy to hit back with enough unproveable lies and hearsay to drive any sane person nuts.
I don't think Rees's campaign will evaporate, Anon. It really doesn't require much money or staff to spam message boards and slap up flyers. It just takes persistence, which Rees has in spades.
And I expect as soon as he loses this race he'll launch his next campaign, perhaps for an at-large seat -- or maybe just get an early start on the 2010 mayor's race.
Ryan, all of you need to stop being such cry baby, piss ants!
Do any of us really believe that the political leaders out there are going to do anything about Spam? Of course not. That is their bread and butter!
Rees is not the only one guilty of it. Two other ward 3 candidates have been doing it, Bolden, Mendelson and others are at it but on other blogs and the like.
Asking our political leaders to stop the spamming is like asking Ryan Avent to lend me his computer for a week. Not going to happen.
Remember as those who argue about TV shows? If you don\'t like it, change the channel.
When we complain, we are in the minority.
That's interesting. I live in the city and have never received an email from either Mendelson or Boldin, even though I am active in DC politics.
Sam, do you think spamming the citizens of the city or the Ward is ok? Is this the mark of a 21st Century political campaign, or a lazy lunatic who can't raise money and craves attention?
i think i know what sam spammer thinks, considering that's probably just another rees alias.
It seems that this use of Spam, to abuse someone and hold the product up to apparent ridicule, should be actionable by Hormel, who owns the tradename and (sometimes overzealously) guards its value. Maybe an IP lawsuit will reduce the Rees' campaign funds.
As a person who works in the political advertising business, we all know that probably less than 2% of all voters in ward 3 ever read this stuff on the various blogs and message boards. Thus what we all say here really has no impact.
What I see abrew is the fact that this Rees guy while having a lot of smarts and probably a lot of balls to boot, he is doing what we call in my business POLITICAL BRAINWASHING.
I would say that 90% of all people have already zoned out the political process, do not believe what they hear and chalk it up as someone slinging mud and will decide based upon whose name stands out the most on the day they pull that lever.
Mock his mini flyers, mock everything he is doing but beware people, this approach has worked very successfully for many a candidate.
To date, none of his rivals have been seen on the streets, he has had a six month jump on all, he is still bombarding our ward with his flyers and like him or not people, he will be hard to catch up with especially if he intensifies his efforts in the months to come.
Add to all of this the fact that most of what he says makes sense, he is feeding the anger in ward 3 over high taxes, lack of good city service and when you add it all up, this spammer could pull an upset.
We will never know until the last vote is counted.
KCinDC -- I'm afraid you're right. Rees shows no sign of letting up. He has become the most notorious, most despised spammer in the Washington, DC area.
Anyone who can send a "vulgar" email to every judge on the DC Superior Court ( http://mishpat.net/cyberlaw/archive/update15.shtml - scroll down to "Contempt for sending an Email?") is capable of anything.
Anon --
Actually. Crazies running for political office is not just limited to DC. In fact, I think we probably have such large wards that we actually have FEWER crazies. Having been raised outside of Chicago and lived in California for many years, I can tell you that Rees is really small time crazy. You should see the people that show up on the ballot for California governors race (and since, by California law, they all have to their occupation and a statement of their candidacy in the voters guide, the guide is one of the most unintentionally funny things about election season.) Chicago with it's many wards and huge numbers of independent suburban cities and village is really often no different. Of course, though, California excels in weirdness that the Midwest could only dream about.
KCinDC if you read the public record on that matter of email to those DC judges it is not true.
What that record states is that someone erected a website mocking a judge as being an arm chair, foot ball drunk. Another judge saw it and emailed it to all her associate judges not Rees, the offended judge ordered the arrest of Rees for insulting him but the US Attorney declined to prosecute stating that Rees was exercising his constitutional right to free speech and if we allow judges to arrest everyone who disagrees with them, we all would be in jail.
KCinDC you are a two face liar. If you are going to report something for us to consider then be honest and do not lie or twist the truth because you hate someone. You twisted the facts and you failed to tell all that this Rees we want to hate was not that Rees involved in that court case.
Carl Miller,
That is an amazingly similar story to this:
http://www.dcmessageboards.com/index.php?showtopic=7694
I guess if you keep telling the story enough times, you begin to believe it. So did the Legal Times have the story wrong? Why not send them a note and set the official record straight?
Rees has my vote.
Charles Manson
Prisoner # K78779878
California Correctional Center at Fulson
M,
True I read that but I also read the story printed by the Washington Times back when they covered the story. So I am guilty of cutting and pasting but that does not take away from the facts.
It is easy to smear with half twists or an incomplete story but it is an honest person who takes the time to tell the truth.
Having read Rees' insanity for so long, I really think this is performance art. Honestly, it's so ridiculous, unstoppable, and hilarious that it can't be anything other than a brilliant and well-planned art project. At least I hope.
Who gives a shit about the spamming. We are being spammed sort to say every day by the post office, by our local television stations, on outdoor signs and her on DCist with shitty ads I do not want to see. So I want to know what are all of your sorry ass mother fuckers crying about.
Get a fuckin life because you are not crying in fact about the spamming but you are using this blog to attack someone you just do not like. So admit it and then move on and get a life assholes.
Who gives a shit about the spamming. We are being spammed sort to say every day by the post office, by our local television stations, on outdoor signs and here on DCist with shitty ads I do not want to see. So I want to know what are all of your sorry ass mother fuckers crying about.
Get a fuckin life because you are not crying in fact about the spamming but you are using this blog to attack someone you just do not like. So admit it and then move on and get a life assholes.
"Doug Himmel's" post is striking in its similarity in content and style to this Rees missive on a local Yahoo group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ward3dc/message/115
I have seen some other at DC Pages which are like this one as well.
Luke
Jonathan Rees is a great man. He is intelligent, well-spoken, handsome, and has soft hands. Clearly, this post was placed up here to defame him. Lawsuits will be filed. Complaints shall be reported. This great man, this champion of the people, will not be detroyed by internet hoodlums! You will not detroy me!
Er... him.
"Carl", if you're going to accuse others of not having their facts straight, you might want to use the names of the people you're responding to, not the names of others they happen to mention in their comments.
Luke,
If it is true that Rees has a mega email list then I would suspect that we might want to look at our ISP providers as I believe that (60 Minutes) did a story where many of them had sold their client email addresses based upon zip codes and then as a ploy to stop the spamming they caused, they charged us for the anti-spamming tools.
There is a host of ways Rees probably got our email addresses legally and there is nothing we can do.
I do not have a probelm with Rees spamming me but I will sent him a bill for all the bread and mayo I have to buy to digest it all.
People, I am fearful that all of these attacks on this man Rees may work against us who do not care for him or what he has done.
When I say this, we are going way overboard and others might begin to feel that we do not have a good reason for us and write us off as being just as weird as Rees and in turn feel sorry for him getting all of this bad press.
Keep it up and we might wind up defeating ourselves.
Several of the above posters are obviously Rees. Please delete them, as he's banned from this site - and every other one save for DC Pages.
He's a total blight on local politics and his posts there, when they're not incoherent, are utterly reprehensible.
Another concern that people need to be aware of is that if you take Rees on publicly, he'll attack you online, calling you things like a "sex pervert," "pedophile" -- and more. Sexual accusations are his most common type of attack, but if he knows that you're a lawyer, for example, he'll write (or claim to write) to the American Bar Association demanding that you be disbarred.
There are some examples of what Rees does to his known critics on http://www.dcmessageboards.com/index.php?showforum=193
Rees has called his enemies' employers.
Rees may even impersonate you online.
Rees may attack you under his own name, or using one of his unlimited aliases.
Rees is more than just a spammer -- he's scary.
Just to follow up on Luke's point....I remember seeing something in themail from DC Watch a while back, so I went and found it:
"What if you erected a web site and you just happened to have the current and accurate E-mail addresses of 11,000 Ward 3 voters, plus you have the E-mail addresses of Ward 3 voters you obtained from local groups that like you. How much would it cost you to send an E-mail directing you to their campaign web site? Right. It would cost you nothing! For the mere cost of erecting your own web site and having between eleven to fifteen thousand E-mail addresses to registered voters, you can run a campaign for near nothing."
http://www.dcwatch.com/themail/2006/06-02-01.htm
I too am wondering what "local groups" like Rees enough to provide email addresses of residents?
Curious Voter
We're going to let this comment thread stand for the moment. We won't let things get out of hand.
We will never know until the last vote is counted.
Not a DC resident, but I wonder--shouldn't someone who wants to use multiple aliases in a comment thread at least learn how to vary his writing style? Can anyone spare some commas for the Rees campaign?
I disavow any knowledge of my own existence.
All of you pretending to be me, you are doing a lousy job as nobody can imitate an original.
By the way, if you all drop by my home later tonight, I giving away free cases of Spam.
Where the heck are the journalists? He impersonates a police officer, threatens people, lies about his resume, spreads unsupported rumors about his opponents, uses anti-gay epithets, accuses people of being Nazis, AND claims its not him doing it....and still, no stories about him? The evidence -in the form of an IP address concordance- is up on DC pages for any journalist to verify. It's sickening that he continues to get away with this.
And people wonder how Bush stays in office.... Thanks, media.
I disavow any knowledge of my own existence.
All of you pretending to be me, you are doing a lousy job as nobody can imitate an original.
By the way, if you all drop by my home later tonight, I giving away free cases of Spam.
I actually have five children. I forgot to mention that DCist Ryan and DCist Jason are two of my illegitimate kids I never wanted to talk about.
To the Moderators:
Please let us know if any of the obvious Rees aliases above are coming from the see IP address.
Thanks.
There was this in the Washington Post:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/dcwire/2006/02/calling_all_goodgovernment_typ_1.html#comments
It's a start.
The press watched for 3 long months somebody attacking me under various screen names with some very vicious claims and then one by one they deleted those postings.
I guess the press figures that since I only had one opponent then, it had to be him doing it and in time they just became numb to it all.
None of what ____________ has said has any truth to it.
If I am going to say anything then I will sign my name to it but if my friends or associates do such, then that is them not me.
If you have something you want then ask me as it is a very simple thing to do.
Mr. Rees,
How do you expain all those posts on various Yahoo Groups which bare an exact of similar IP address to posts in your own name?
Someone provided links to many interesting posts on DC Pages. You have never defended it and indeed, deleted your own Yahoo Group in response. Well, the IP trail tells its own story and it doesn't jibe with yours.
Joe
M....I can assure you that all candidates for public office has many enemies.
Today a private accounting firm presented to the DC Office of Campaign Finance proof that Fenty lied on his previous financial report by $21k.
To attribute something to just one will always blind you to the others out there.
Joe,
Ask those who impersonated me how they did it.
And yet, you've conveniently failed to answer the direct question about the now-proven claim that you've been posting under aliases.
Saying "It's not true" doesn't dispute the proof that's been posted on DCPages.
People, every candidate studies his/her rival with their staff and then acts according to what they see.
Hidden fights between the candidates on issues of the correctness of advertising, correctness of the issues, correctness in acceptance of campaign funding and more are quietly hashed out or they go public.
I do not know where any of you went to school but many of you seem to lack any common sense or analytical skills.
Below is a note between candidates on the properness of accepting PAC money from a non-registered PAC. Enjoy..................
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Dear Professor C,
Since the issue of Sam Brooks accepting money from a PAC was made known by “him” and many have discussed the issue of whether or not a PAC that is only registered with the FEC must register with the DC OCF, I believe it does before it can give out money and attempt to play a role in any DC campaign as such an act is a back door effort of promoting a local candidate for election.
Here is my take on it and I would love your opinion as a professor of law at GWU.
The State of New York as well as Erie County, New York where “this” Jack Pac receives its mail does not officially have an office in New York but operates out of the offices of Cassidy & Associates here in the District of Columbia. The Erie County Office of Campaign Finance wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Mcgurn, Maureen [mailto:mcgurnm@erie.gov]
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 4:49 PM
To: jrrees@peoplepc.com
Subject: JACK PAC
In regard to your inquiry, please be advised that there is no JACK PAC on file in Erie County. However, if you go to the Federal Election Commission website, there is a JACK PAC listed.
Jack Quinn’s (Jack PAC) is a political action committee that was set up for the purpose of providing political contributions to candidates for the U.S. Congress. See their filing with the FEC.
When Jack Quinn’s (Jack Pac) decided to provide political contributions to any candidate in the District of Columbia, his PAC fell within the requirements set down in (DC Official Code § 1-1101.01(5)) and (DC Official Code § 1-1102.04) as his intent in giving a local candidate(s) was designed with the purpose of promoting or opposing a political party, the nomination or election of an individual to office and etcetera.
Jack Quinn’s (Jack PAC) needs to be challenged before the DC OCF and the DC BOEE all the way through the courts as.
The fact that Jack Quinn’s (Jack PAC) is already registered with the FEC does not exempt it from filing with the DC Office of Campaign Finance.
What is a Political Committee?
(DC Official Code § 1-1101.01(5))
A political committee is a proposer, individual, committee (including a principal campaign committee), club, association, organization or other group of individuals organized for the purpose of, or engaged in, promoting or opposing a political party, the nomination or election of an individual to office, or any initiative, referendum or recall.
A political committee is either an authorized or an unauthorized committee. An authorized committee means the principal campaign committee or any other political committee is authorized and designated by a candidate on the Statement of Candidacy form to receive contributions or make expenditures on behalf of such candidate. An unauthorized committee is any other political committee, which has not been designated by a candidate.
Political Committee Registration Requirements
(DC Official Code § 1-1102.04)
All political committees, authorized or unauthorized, including campaign committees, independent or political action committees, and initiative, referendum or recall committees, must register with the Office of Campaign Finance and file a Statement of Organization form within ten (10) days of organization or designation by a candidate on the Statement of Candidacy form.
I think the burden is on you to explain how there are so many posts in support of your campaign, how there are impersonations of real people (including a Metropolitan Police Officer on both DCist and DC Pages) and numerous others all from a similar or identical IP addresses. The computers do not lie.
As long as you are here, you have been asked to provide basic biographical information such as Employer/Employment history, education, etc. in otehr words, the basic qualifications for your candidacy. Can you provide this information for the voting public?
Mr. Rees,
I like the way you have conveniently shifted the discussion to your infatuation, Sam Brooks. However, since the topic of this thread is your desire to SPAM the residents of Ward 3 with email and mini flyers, I would like for you to answer the questions posed by other here, including me.
No one here cares about Sam Brooks.
Joe...since I am the accused and you are the accuser; Our American system places the burden on you the accuser not me.
As for my qualificications, I will be happy to establish that based upon what is required by law to run for a ward seat on the D.C. City Council. Anything else is an unwarranted intrusion into my privacy.
I concur with Joe that there are so many questions that Jonathan Rees, candidate for City Council needs to answer:
We do you work, exactly? Who's your employer? Where did you work before?
Where did you go to high school, college and post-graduate school, if any?
Why isn't your bio on your website?
Lucas,
If the various boards/blogs do not want any political postings which they do allow, then what any of us do is not Spam but a simple and allowed posting. Placing of mini-flyers is allowed under law so there is no foul on my part.
Fine:
http://www.dcmessageboards.com/index.php?showtopic=7539
Other than the links to the Yahoo Group in your own name which have been deleted, all of the other posts show the same, or similar IP addresses. Some of these posts are in your name, others are in various fake names.
The content of all of these posts are that of a pro-Rees nature. Are you denying that any of these posts are yours? They all came from the same two or three computers, and mostly from the same access IP.
I thought you had been banned at this Blog, as well as at Craig's List, yet you continue to ignore the owners rules and wishes both here and there. You have been banned by most of the neighborhood Yahoo rooms in Ward 3. Is this how you will conduct yourself as a Councilman? It certainly appears a if it will be how you conduct youself as a candidate.
Luke
As I said Joe and I have told others, if people working in my office, on my campaign or just friends do things then that is them.
Yet you have no proof it is actually me no more than I have proof you are not any of the other names here posting.
So you let people post on the internet in your name and from your computer?
I think Ryan Avent is a fair man and will for purposes of answering my critics make an exception.
It is amazing how all of you criticize me on petty matters but never on the issues I stand for or what I have written so well published.
What does this say to me. It says many of you are such miserable creeps that you don't have the mental capacity to focus on issues so you delve into the sleaze.
I'll ask again what I asked earlier, as I am genuinely curious as to the answer. Don't worry I don't live in ward 3, so there's not a chance of me voting for the man (not that I would even if I could).
Anyhow, as a registered Democratic candidate, how can one defend eschewing union print shops in favor of what is essentially outsourcing the printing of campaign materials to a developing market with cheap labor? If I were a candidate I wouldn't brag about how cheap my campaign materials were anyhow--as there's little to no reason voters will care about that.
But it doesn't bode well for a candidate's position on encouraging local businesses here in the District, when he has seen them so unfit as to seek out the services of one in the DR to provide a fairly mundane service.
I await what will certainly be a vituperative response that somehow fails to address my concern. Extra points for personal insults.
Joe,
When I am not around and I have a lot of people in my office who supports me, am I to forbid them or have a camera recording all they do.
Maybe if nobody had attacked me last summer and fall then maybe my loyalists would not be striking back.
As Billy Joel would say: " I did not start the fire".
Why don't all of you start judging me on what I stand for, want to achieve as outlined on my website and I would be happy to engage all on that.
Thanks to Gary Imhoff and Ryan Avent, my webite has had so far today 675 hits!
By the way, I have had exactly 32 emails wishing me well with comments they agree with much of what I say so all news is not bad news.
Weird. Is Jonathan Rees ever going to say where he works? Or is that top secret? (Or maybe...)
A brief employment history is essential for all candidates, don't you think?
Same for where Jonathan Rees went to school: He's simply ignoring the question. I wonder why.
Because what you stand for is a complete lack of ethics. A candidate is judged not just on the platform placed on a single website, but on his behavior as a whole.
And yours is utterly contemptible.
I work now for a dental care provider to nursing homes known as Institutional Dental Care, I am the administrator at PG County Hospital of its dental clinic and I sit on the board of directors of Los Gellegos Foods. Prior to that, I worked for 9 years for the Dutch based food giant Royal Ahold which owns Giant Foods and others. I came to DC with an offer from the World Bank to manage its housing facility known as The Concordia which is on NH & M.
Is this the Institutional Dental Care that you work for: http://www.idcinc.com ?
And who is Michael Griffiths, DDS, who posted a message in support of your candidacy: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tenleytown/message/3331
Is Dr. Griffiths your employer?
I didn't see any mention in your reply about where you went to school. When may we expect an answer about that?
I thought I clarify an incorrect position that Rees has plastered here and on DCPages.com. A PAC that is registered federally does not have to register in DC to give money to a DC candidate. The only requirement is that the campaign disclose the contribution which, in this case, Sam Brooks has done. THE REGULATION ABOVE DEALS WITH PAC'S THAT REGISTER IN DC!!! Rees, please go back to cleaning teeth and leave politics to people with a clue.
looks like the google cache comes through again. In the interest of information ...
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:APC-6DMwP8gJ:www.angelfire.com/dc2/jrr/+rees+%22institutional+dental+care%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=8
Now let's put this discussion to rest, as it gives unnecessary publicity to a nasty campaign.
For the record, Spammer Rees has been banned from numerous forums and email lists including DCist, Craig's List, Tenleytown listserv, Cleveland Park listserv, Glover Park listserv, Palisades listserv, and more. Why? It's certainly not because these lists have too many people named "Jonathan" on them. Where Rees has been banned, he's tried to get around those bans by using a variety of aliases. The moderators of most of these lists have made it very clear that Rees isn't welcome in their corners of the Internet.
I'm not so keen on Rees, but I'm really getting tired of the horde of anti-Rees commenters who seem to magically pop up any time he's mentioned, and have cross-referenced guides to all his other message board appearances at their fingertips. Don't they realize that the more they attack and question him, the more credibility they give him?
Frankly, I'm starting to wonder if the both Rees and the anti-Rees forces are actually parts of some wider conspiracy to focus more attention on the Ward 3 race than it would otherwise merit.
Here is an interesting Google Cahce which may contradict the Candidates stated record:
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:lPouyPGdqC0J:www.angelfire.com/dc2/jrrees1955/+&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
Mr. Rees,
I am a registered DC voter, and I live in Ward 3. I want you to know, you have my vote. I believe that city council needs some absolute absurdity to help hasten the Apocalypse.
Here's just one example of this dude's intellectual prowess and political acumen:
http://dcwatch.com/election2006/rees02.htm
A little OCF Lesson for Jackass Rees,
This very issue was addressed today by the DC Board of Elections as to whether or not a FEC registered PAC has to register with the DC OCF. The opinions between counsels were split evenly.
Some argued that if a DC PAC registered with the FEC is contributing to a candidate for federal office then filing with the DC OCF is not required. (The term "Loacl Candidate" is referring to local candidates for federal office.)
Some argued that if a DC based DC PAC registered with the FEC is contributing to a candidate for local office(Referring to candidates for mayor or counsel) then filing with the DC OCF is required.
Since the opinions were split and not official, this matter will be further addressed and allow arguments.
Again, there is a grey matter in the law as the law says what it does but there is no test case other than the one against Mayor Anthony Williams which didn't answer this question fully.
It is an issue worth testing because not to require a PAC to file can open the door to candidates not filing information about contributions received.
A test case is in order and in the best interest of voters.
The Campaign Finance Laws of the District of Columbia are silent on many issues surrounding PACs unlike the states that regulate them heavily and many forbid out of state contributions all together.
DC has decided to allow the Feds (FEC) to dictate what will be required of Federal PACs in their activities inside DC.
The Federal Election Commissions requires that a Federal PAC report its non-federal political contributions to the state or District of Columbia under 11 C.F.R 102.5 (a)(1(ii).
Since Federal law overrides state and District laws, Jack Quinn will have to report his contributions to DC as well as on several forms back at the FEC.
The issue being made is, Jack Quinn did not do what he is required and he is the bad guy and nobody else.
You're a terrible writer and a sloppy thinker.
In addition to being amoral.
Thank you Mr. Dental Technician for confirming what I said in my previous post. All that is required of a PAC that files federally and gives in DC is that the contribution is reported. Clearly Sam Brooks reported that contribution. Thank you once again for wasting taxpayer money on your strange obsession with Sam Brooks you crazy, crazy man.
So exactly what I said Rees,
First off, I am not a dental techinician but a manager of around 22 dental clinics which is a bit up there and far far above a blogger.
Second, I was right about the error that took place and I know that Jack Quinn began the process today of rectifying this today.
My goal is to see DC become like the 50 states and ban all out of state contributions and contributions from federal PACS that do not have their primary hqtrs within the state.
I had both Jack Quinn and Sam Brooks jumping this morning.
So exactly what I said Rees,
First off, I am not a dental techinician but a manager of around 22 dental clinics which is a bit up there and far far above a blogger.
Second, I was right about the error that took place and I know that Jack Quinn began the process today of rectifying this.
My goal is to see DC become like the 50 states and ban all out of state contributions and contributions from federal PACS that do not have their primary hqtrs within the state.
I had both Jack Quinn and Sam Brooks jumping this morning.
One day, when you get the help you so desperately and obviously need, you're going to look back on these comments thread with profound embarassment. And you'll wonder why no one tried to stop you.
We did. We failed.
There is NO WAY that Rees completed any graduate program in good standing at Columbia. He lacks the minimum facitilies required to function in society, as seen here and elsewhere.
He's going to fall on his own sword before this is over.
Rees, please STFU.
Mark my words. Whatever's been said here today will only feed his ongoing delusion that HE's the victim of a "smear campaign."
Whenever someone points out, with facts in hand, the inaccuracies, insults and contradictions in his half-year record of libelous posts (the likes of which no opponent has EVER posted), he lashes out viciously and with vulgarity, like a rabid, feral animal. When people respond (as one might expect) with anger, he then claims that HE'S being attacked. Poor innocent.
You just watch. Today's long-overdue public response to his malicious actions will be referenced in a future edition of one of his famous Martyred Man Of The People rants.
Winston Churchill once said that when people attack you (not on the merits) you stand for but on petty matters otherswise, it is because they fear you and will try anything to stop you but they never prevail because they are shallow and miserable people.
You DCist bloggers are losers because those who are winners and run winning publications have acknowledged the good things I have done and said because they are not mentally ill and waste their time running around dealing in character assination but address people based on what they offer and the impact it will have on society.
None of you have ever said that anything I stand for is wrong and that in turn shows me how shallow you are because you lack the intelligence to offer an effective argument on issues affecting all.
My father once warned that computers will usher in a generation of stupid people and DCist proved his point.
Forbes Magazine says that BLOGS only reach 1 of every 3,000 people in society and are ineffective in impacting on society and cater to people who are usually living on one extreme or another.
I went one day to the biggest apartment building on Tunlaw Street because I had been invited by its resident. Of its some 400 units, I asked over 150 people who attended have they ever heard of a blog called "DCIST" and none raised their hand saying they did. MOst asked what is DCIST! That tickled me pink.
I also did the same at the QUEBEC house on Porter Street and none of its resident ever heard of DCIST.
Point is, of you 5 real critics, nobody is really hearing you..........
Well, this has been fun, hasn't it? Mr. Rees, for you to cry character assassination, after the things you've posted here and elsewhere, is the height of hypocrisy. I don't know how you sleep at night.
We're closing down these comments, folks, and returning to our previous arrangement vis-a-vis Mr. Rees.