It’s been a year since Jonathan Rees launched his quixotic campaign for the Ward 3 seat on the D.C. Council. And what a year it has been.

For those of you new to the Rees saga, here’s a brief recap — Rees has existed primarily online, running his campaign by using numerous online aliases (28 on DCist alone; upwards of 80 on other blogs, listservs, and messageboards) to promote his qualifications and attack those of his opponents. So notorious has his political spamming become that there hardly exists an online forum where his comments are still welcome.

Rees has proven himself to be quite the vicious online fighter, using any and all means possible to attack anyone who challenges him. His has obsessively focused his sights on competitor Sam Brooks, using a mix of libel and exaggeration to accuse him of everything from not actually living in Ward 3 to violating federal law to being mentally ill. He has similarly accused DCist of being both a franchise of the Church of Satan and a tool of a foreign government.

And the saga has continued.