Notorious political spammer and Ward 3 candidate Jonathan Rees has found himself a new soapbox — the City Paper’s blog, City Desk. A comment linking to Rees’ campaign website was posted yesterday on a post that had little or nothing to do with city politics, and while that commenter remained anonymous, DCist received the exact same text in an email directly from Rees late yesterday.

We should have warned the City Paper. We’ve known for quite a while the Rees has a thing for promoting himself and his candidacy online, often doing so with a host of aliases (28 to date on DCist alone). We’ve been victims, D.C. Wire has had to put up with it, Craigslist has suffered and now the City Desk will feel our collective pain.

You know those interns we’re guessing you guys have? You may as well assign one of them to watching comments on your blog day in and day out. We call it the Rees Watch.