If Brown wins maybe he'll give Adrian Fenty, one of DC's "disaffected urban youths," a job in government.

the above post is clearly not by Sam Brooks.

I think we can guess who DID write it.

I care. Many people care. People, that is, who have ethics and expect other people to.

Thanks, "Henry"

Ethics is a rare commodity in DC politics.

It would be nice if there was a not more but from what I have been seeing in this mayoral race so far, it surely is lacking.

Of course we all know that both Fenty and Cropp are already under the gun for campaign finance irregularities that you would think they would hire better people to handle their record keeping.

Why would Rees want to give anybody else the credit for soing the right thing?

Everyone is getting sick of your schtick. Unless you really are looney, in which case I feel for you and your family.

Well, the good news about Rees (good news being relative) is that Rees got soundly defeated yesterday on DCist ( http://www.dcist.com/archives/2006/02/21/blog_on_a_wire_1.php ).

I hope the Washington Post has a full understanding of what Candidate Rees (post above, again) brings to the table as a candidate and human being.

By the way, does anyone at the Washington Post have any clue what Rees is referring to about the 2003 campaign?

I have not been identify anyone who knows anything about these allegations.

And Rees, I believe some of the submissions on the DCist blog posted abover verify the commonality of IP addresses used by you and various alter egos.

After having had a looked at DCist, I have to concur that Mr. Austermuhle has in fact favored Sam Brooks for quite sometime and in fact has never offered any coverage of any political opponent of Sam Brooks.

The point is well taken and Mr. Austermuhle needs to pack his bags and go away.

the three posts above this one are obviously from AliasBoy

rees again above

I surely did not want to get dragged into this, but this is a matter of correcting the record.

Rees did post on DCist yesterday multiple times and with multiple names. We have the IP addresses to prove it.

I have met Mr. Brooks once. I do not work for him or with him, much less do I favor his campaign. I do not live in Ward 3 and have no vested interest in who wins.

My past is irrelevant to this discussion, but I do think it is fair to note that yes, I was arrested once in college, for a misdemeanor. I completed one year of probation and my record was expunged. I was not deported, much less nearly deported, nor was I kicked out of school. I am not a member of the Communist Party, and only briefly belonged to a left-wing student organization while a freshman in college, more than eight years ago. If everything everyone does in college serves to disqualify them from the ability to comment on matters of public interest, then I suppose we're going to have many fewer voices in the marketplace of ideas.

And Mr. Rees was online yesterday between 9 p.m and 1 a.m. In fact, I received an email from him at 11:18 p.m., one at 11:24, one at 11:28, and one at 11:42. Strangely enough, I was at The Raven between the hours of 8:45 and 10:15 p.m., and saw no evidence whatsoever of Mr. Rees' presence.

Martin Austermuhle
Editor-in-Chief
DCist.com

I didn't post that. That comment was directly linked to an IP address used by Mr. Rees. This wouldn't be out of the ordinary -- he posted as "DCistRob" on a post a few months ago, attempting to pass himself off as another DCist writer. That IP address was also linked to Rees.

As for my credibility, I would happily present anyone who is curious the evidence I have mentioned here.

Given that this exchange has taken away from what could be an otherwise productive debate on issues of substance, I'm going to duck out of commenting further. I applaud the Post for pursuing this initiative, and hope further posts are not turned into debates over whether or not Mr. Rees did one thing or another.

Martin Austermuhle
Editor-in-Chief
DCist.com

With all due respect, Mr. Rees, you started this by posting inflammatory comments, impersonations and rude commentary on Craigslist (you are banned), Various Ward 3 based Yahoo Groups (you are banned), various blogs, such as DCDL.org and DCist (you are banned) and DC Pages.

The record indicates a common IP trail across all of these forums. Computers do not lie, and the "woe is me" comments you make now are simply disingenuous.

Excuse me Luke but I recognize your name as being one thathas been used many times and in many places that was engaging in the bashing of Rees.

I would not take anything you say seriously.

Without disclosing my name, I am a former moderator of the Tenleytown group list server and it is correct to say that Mr. Rees was the first to get creamed by many of the names we see here today. Obviously Mr. Rees finally had enough or his supporters have and this is the net result.

Computers do not lie Luke but you will by a touch of the backspace and a hitting of a key or two to alter things the way you want them to be.

Sorry Charlie, no cigar.

I have to ask one question and that is, Mr. Brooks why are you so afraid of Mr. Rees that you and your friends feel a need to do what you have since this past summer?

Is it that he has gotten out to the voters in a big way and you have not and thus you feel so far behind that the only way you can prevail is to persist with this online campaign to convince people that Mr. Rees is this bad person using the internet to torture people?

I notice one of your campaign tactics is that if anyone dares to disagree with you, then you will say it is Mr. Rees even if Mayor Williams says it, you will again say it is Mr. Rees or Mr. Rees impersonating Mayor Williams.

Mr. Brooks you and your people need to get a life, hit the campaign trail as staying here on the internet is a waste of time.

If anyone has any comments or concerns with my history, affiliations, or political leanings, feel free to contact me. My email address is available at DCist.com. I have absolutely nothing to hide, and unlike some of the commenters here who hide behind obvious aliases, I post comments using my real name.

The public record Mr. Austermuhle as it concerns you is clear and there is no need to ask anything of you.

What everybody will take from it is, you are just a person who loves to stir up trouble.

Excuse me. Isn't Jonathan Rees the candidate? Martin Austermuhle is not a candidate for Ward 3 City Council. This looks to me as an attempt by Jonathan Rees to avoid media scrutiny.

Rees still hasn't answered the most basic question posted on numerous boards that he frequents: Where did Jonathan Rees go to school?

Rees has said that he attended Columbia University as an undergrad; he's said that he attended New York University for college. Rees has posted online that he came to Washington, DC to work for the World Bank right after college at Columbia, and he's also said that he went to Columbia Business School, where he got his MBA. These things can't all be true.

Rees has posted online that he has two children, and he's posted online that he has three children. Certainly parents are forgetful, but I doubt that any parents forget how many children they actually have.

As reported on DCist, Jonathan Rees' messages share the same IP address as posts made by numerous other "people." I don't think all of these people are using the same computer or Internet connection.

Something's really, really wrong with what Rees has been saying about his background.

I do not think that Mr. Rees should dignify himself to answer any questions submitted by annonymous posters and definitely not after the very obvious stalking of his person in every forum these cowards can post their hateful messages.

This is obviously another fine piece of work from the Austermuhle-Brooks team.

Mr. Rees, ignore these chumps.

It appears that "Leonardo Green" has the same posting disorder as Mr. Rees.

http://dcdl.org/2005/11/05/bizarre-smear-campaign-in-ward-3

I think that the Washington Post and others by now have seen on this blog proof of the many annonymous posters and others who have spend day after day posting mean mouthed things about Jonathan Rees everywhere they can find such a place and this began last summer and has not stopped.

There is no proof Jonathan Rees has posted anything back but these stalkers will say that it is Jonathan Rees if anyone of us out here would even post anything that is against them.

This is disgusting and this Austermuhle and Brooks need to stop.

Wow. So very, very sick and sad. If he weren't so despicable, I'd say "just ignore him."

This blog is based on Movable Type, according to Brady. Movable Type has a built in IP trace and ban system. Could you folks wake up your tech staff for a few minutes, trace the IPs and end this idiocy from Rees?

Otherwise DC Wire is going to become very useless, very fast.

The writers for the Washington Post are well known for their skills of picking up on BS artist and need to isolate those agents of Sam Brooks who have traveled the internet looking to bash his rivals and block all IP addresses that smell like agents and/or Sam Brooks before all are subjected to his insane jealousy.

The person claiming to be a former moderator of the Tenleytown listserv above was not a former moderator, as I am the only former moderator (and founder).

Dear Washington Post: The time has come for an expose about Jonathan Rees. On the one hand, he says he's a real candidate for Ward 3 City Council. On the other hand, either under his own name or through aliases, Rees attacks anyone who criticizes him.

He claims on his website to have a campaign manager and two web-site designers, but those people don't seem to exist.

What do those IP addresses on D.C. Wire reveal about Rees' aliases? According to DCist and the posts and DC Pages Rees has been using dozens of aliases to promote his campaign and attack his critics in the most vile ways.

I just read on DCist, www.dcist.com, that DCist's editor received a vulgar email from Rees this morning.

The Rees campaign is like the movie Pacific Heights. It's almost as if Rees used that movie as a model for his campaign.

Here is the link, "Ramon":

http://www.dcist.com/archives/2006/02/22/graham_stays_in.php

Actually, there is no brith date identified in the user ID, and the last date of modification was in January:

http://profiles.yahoo.com/samlongfellow67

Where do you come up with this stuff? Since when does Yahoo provide personal information about its users? Any TOS complaint is handled by Yahoo Abuse, and any resolution is always kept private.

Any reporter can verify that what you claim is not Yahoo's policy.

What saddens me about all this is that Brooks probably can't respond to any of this publicly, because of his clean campaign pledge. (And because Rees - who didn't sign it - has pledged not to ever participate in debates.)

I worry that, because most voters don't have the time to sort through the maddening details of the often-confusing (and improbable) story, the sheer tenacity of his accuser will eventually wear people down. Eventually, sick of it all, they'll just start assuming that there's got to be some grain of truth amid all the crazy libel. Brooks'pledge to ethics, then, prevents him from defending himself. Rees won't win, but I think his only real goal is to ruin Brooks, for whatever reason. It's SO unfair. I'm not a Ward 3 voter, or a Brooks supporter, but this shouldn't happen to anyone, in any election.

This is why it's so important that this story gets told by folks whose job it is to pore through the complexities of this. And though it will require a heckuva lot of research, data comparison, and dull detail work, the result will be a fully informed electorate and a fair and decent campaign.

This is a useless conversation. I just read the DcWire posting on mayoral candidate Michael Brown's outreach efforts and was hoping to read some feedback about that.

The rest of you need to go get a room...

I was emailed about the discussion in this forum. I am one of the board owners of the Ward3notes yahoo group.

Feel free to email me with any questions or concerns about the Group:

dc_jensign@yahoo.com

As far as I know, none of the political candidates are members of the group. Of course, any and all are welcome and encouraged to join. As it is now, most of the members are friends and neighbors in the Forest Hills south to Woodley Park neighborhoods.

Jen

You are kidding, right? I think my husband would be very disappointed to hear that he is married to Sam Brooks.

Maybe I should not add any salt to the open wounds but I do recall back when Brooks ran the last time that someone peppered the list servers with hateful allegations against Kwame Brown and everybody who saw it, felt it had to be Sam Brooks as they did not feel that Harold Brazil would lower himself that much to be re-elected.

When you consider this craziness happened back in Brooks last campaign and it is happening again, it is obvious that lightening does strike twice in the same place; namely behind the paranoia in the mind of Brooks and his keyboard.

Thank God I live in ward 1.

"Patricia" is Rees. I wish it were otherwise.

On a more positive note, both these candidates have very nice websites. The website for Rees {http://www.dc2006.net} does say a lot more as to identifying the problems we all face and viable solutions where as the one for Brooks {http://www.brooks2006.com} is void any of that. On the other hand, the website for Brooks leaves open an avenue for some degree of dialogue.

I also looked at the website for Robert Gordon which proved to be very bland and it did not speak of our current problems, offer solutions nor offered voters any real chance for input.

To date, the website for Rees seems to go more to the heart of what concerns voters and what some of us might want to hear but the jury is still out who may best serve us as three of the other candidates have yet to post their website.

I assume all will add to their site and start giving voters a better idea where they would want to lead us.

All of this is what we should be discussing not this infantile stuff posted above my posting which I think most will see coming from the candidates at issue and nobody else despite all denials of such. If you keep up your deceptions then both of you will be the loser come September.

again, patricia is rees.

When the US Office of Special Council completes their investigation into Tamela Gordon who is chair for Sam Brooks they will find that she violated the Hatch Act as there are people who were confronted by Gordon, asked to make contributions to Brooks via his website and I believe they have already given their statements and that is enough to whack Gordon on her rear end for crossing the line.

I will also wager that the OSC will find a good number of the contributors to Brooks to be bogus enough to refer the matter over to the US Attorney.

My friends and I have already found 10 contributors who do not live where Brooks says they do based upon their not being listed or unlisted by the phone company, no record of them living at such addresses by the local board of elections and by means of an online search agency.

Here is a neat way of deceiving others about your campaign expenditures readers. I Call it SHOPPING WITH SAM BROOKS 101.

You walk into any store like staples, post office and other places, pick up receipts that people leave behind as many do and then you report to the OCF such as your campaign expenditures while you pocket the campaign contributions for your personal needs.

Ask Brooks about the above. Remember Sam how you did that last time round? I hope you have refined this art of deception.

You have listed 2959 Tilden Street with the OCF as your campaign headquarters but nobody can find the cost of such from September 2005 through January 2006 on your filing with the OCF. Why? Oh, if your argument is that you are not paying because the owner is a friend of the family, then you still have to report it and you did not. Oooops did you overlook that?

As for your Clean Campaign Pledge, I am laughing because there has never been anything about your campaigns that has ever been clean and you know there are a few people out there who know that.

Investigate you ask through your many aliases? Maybe it is you who needs to be investigated and called front and center and produce the real evidence to all your out of state contributors.

Just consider me your Ghost of Christmas Past who has come to show you the evil ways of your past so you will be able to redeem yourself and be happy in the future.

"Ramon" is a known alias for Jonathan Rees. While he will often allege that people who respond to his posts are really Brooks, I can in fact offer proof of the Rees Alias Phenomenon (excellent band name by the way.)

Go to DCPages,the local politics board. Head back a month or so and find the posts marked "Proof of Rees' Multiple Alias Disorder". You can also visit the Glover Park Yahoo Group. Check out the posts on, say, August 24th. Find the Anti-brooks/pro Rees rants and check out the IP addresses. "Alex Biddy" "Harry Firestone" "NikkiDix" (who's connected to REES IP by the DCPage documents) ALL post from the exact same IP address, despite declaring "themselves" to be different people. Also, the folks at DCist will usually post something in the comments thread when posts from Rees and his supporters all come from the same address.

He can't produce any such documentation about the people who respond to him online. And he's yet to show that Brooks ever engaged in any of this, even to respond to him (let alone smear him.)

It'll all make sense when you read this stuff, if you feel so inclined. But I'd certainly understand if you didn't. It's truly mind-boggling.

As "Patricia" says, take a look at both websites. See if either of them seems kooky. Make your own judgment about the professionalism and sanity of each candidate, based on the sites that are indisputably created by them.

The DC Office of Campaign Finance can attest to the fact that Ramon Stewart is not this guy Rees and a simple call to them can put this lie by Sam Brooks and his followers to rest.

The above post was by Mr. Rees.

The above post was by Sam Brooks.

The above post was by Moe.

The above post was by Curly.

I would like to see solid proof from Rees' IPS of his IP address before I will accept any claim that any name is associated with him.

I am aware that Sam Brooks smeared Kwame Brown back in his 2003-2004 campaign and it would appear he is going it again in 2005-2006 against two of his rivals.

Wherefore, until I and anybody else sees prooof from Rees' IPS provider, then all of us should chalk all of the above up to Sam Brooks up to his old games.

Don't worry Rees. PLENTY of people are keeping track of your IP addresses, suddenly.

Good luck to ya

and as long as you're going around asking for solid proof, how about offering anything that might support the allegation above that Mr. Brooks EVER "smeared" Kwame Brown. I've spent quite a bit of time looking into this, (as have others). And yet there's apparently nothing to substantiate your oft-repeated claim. Help us out here, please.

I too have to agree that there is no evidence that Mr. Rees has ever posted anything except claims that he did but that is unacceptable to any reasonable person and I think most want to see the smoking gun which I have yet to see nor has anybody else.

Mr. Brooks is on public record as saying that none of the candidates want to sign his Clean Campaign Pledge. I can see why when he is here under phony names attacking Mr. Rees for things he has no proof of.

If you have Mr. Rees IP address then show all of us and also show us that his internet service provider has verified it to be correct otherwise shut up and take your lies elsewhere as intelligent voters are not amused by this hijacking of the various blogs.

Either show us the proof all round or let us call you a liar!

But you didn't answer the question!

I go along with (Stop The Lies) as this craziness has gone on now for a few months and I have seen the so called IP address(es) somebody asserts belongs to Mr. Rees. Now let us see a letter of verification from any internet service provider stating that the IP address(es) you have published belongs to an actual account paid for by Mr. Rees with a credit card and and not by someone else who might be pretending to me him.

Whoever the accuser of Mr. Rees is you owe all of us this proof and if you cannot give us that then I agree, stand and accept being called a liar.

The "proof" is on DC Pages. See the DC politics message board. Go to the posts entitled "Multiple Alias Disorder". Some of the addresses were visible only to board moderators. The rest are still visible on Yahoogroups.

And that, my friend, is proof.

Adios.

What is published as I can see on DC Message Board are IP addresses next to the people who are posting but again, that is not proof of who the posters are and those IP addresses have not been verified by any ISP as belonging to anyone on any end of those arguments.

You are trying to make people believe that just because people over on DC Pages say it is someone does not make it true unless DC Pages was given proof which I doubt that those IP addresses belong to certain people.

I am not taking sides but until we see real proof then any claims are worthless and just your word for it and the word of anybody who wants to deceive us.

Come back when you have proof from those ISPs.

come back when you demonstrate a basic understanding of how the internet works, please.

You come back and tell us how it works.

What you are telling me is that just because you can identify an IP address then that is good enough to say who it belongs to and anybody in this business knows that is bunk.

No, you come back with proof that those IP addresses you speak of that is posted elsewhere belongs to anyone then all of us will then believe you but what you are saying is vague and most of us know that.

If we are to believe all the stories we read on these wachy message blogs then I like the one that some woman was passing around saying that Sam Brooks has a history of mental illness, that he has been under psychiatric treatment since a teenager, he is currently being treated for a bi-polar disorder and the medications he is taking is causing him impotence. I have read stories about Rees that are just as off the wall as you can get. Shall we believe all of this? I think not. It is people like the posters here who just ruin things for everybody else and turn the public off to politics.

OLIVER STONE'S MOVIE JFK & SAM BROOKS FOR CITY COUNCIL

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/pol/137709256.html

And this has what? to do with candidate Brown and the topic at hand?