It seems a shame that the Mayor who has done so much for the City is now going so far off base in all his musings, comments and actions. A baseball lease that even Ms. Cropp admits is lousy, proposing to bypass the certificate of need for a new hospital when he was the one who forced the closing of the old one- and making comments about candidates that he could apply to himself.

Linda Cropp is a nice person but also never managing anything before. She was President of the School Board at a time when they abandoned vocational education and didn't plan for the needs of special ed students thereby helping to create all the problems we have now.

If I recall correctly Anthony Williams didn't really run anything before he became Mayor either. He was CFO but that was much more of an oversight position than running anything. If I remember correctly he got himself into hot water regarding his management skills over how he fired people in that office.

In any event running a city takes much more than being a manager. No one person manages a city. It requires the understanding of politics and how they impact governance. It requires the abiltiy to connect with people. It is about hiring great managers and giving them the support they need to do the job you ask them to do. It is about setting bold priorities and it is about staying with an issue and educating the public about it to get it done however long it takes. It is about being a leader.

These are all the qualities that Adrian Fenty has that the Mayor just can't seem to find it in his heart to recognize or accept as important to the job.

I think that the people of the District of Columbia are ready for that kind of a Mayor. One who shares their hopes and dreams and will stand up for them 24/7. One who will be out in the community not just when a crisis occurs but everyday.

I wish Anthony Williams would refrain from making nasty remarks about candidates and spend the rest of his term trying to accomplish some of what he set out to do. His last State if the City speech had some ambitious goals, maybe if he stayed in town long enough he could get some of them accomplished and add to the good things he has done for the District in the past seven years. His legacy will be the better for it.

mayor williams should keep his mouth shut and run the government not his mouth.

It really seems like Adrian Fenty has made it his goal in life to score points off Tony Williams. If Mayor Williams were to cure cancer tomorrow, Mr. Fenty would find three different ways to criticize the discovery. Not that Mayor Williams is innocent or anything; just that Mr. Fenty is awfully fixated on making him look bad.

That cements it. I need to write this man to give him my support. He is real, he is doing what he feels is right, and I connect with him. Attack him as you may, but he saved DC.

A Fenty Administration would be far more disastrous than that of the Pratt-Kelly Administration. Fenty should re-acquaint himself with his parents who are by the way OLD PEOPLE not in his vision and learn the art of selling shoes which is where he will wind up after losing this race and then losing his next bid for ward 4 council or maybe he can polish up his skills in learning how as a good lawyer to rip off the elderly more carefully next time.

if fenty is so terrible for old people why are most of the neighborhood activists supporting him? why are there so many fenty yard signs in every ward in every nighborhood of the district? why after ten years on the elected school board and 12 years on the council are there so few supporters of linda cropp. if she's so fabulous why are her numbers so low?

Adrian Fenty is the Jim Jones of DC politics who has managed to mesmerize a group of blind fools who probably still believe in the tooth fairy.

Alex Evans who is Fenty's campaign manager is another loser you cannot trust.

I watched this kid in action at the mayoral debate held at St. Columba's Church and he followed Fenty around like a dog does his master waiting for a doggie biscuit.

Considering the whose who of morons Fenty has picked to work on his staff is a sign of what kind of government he will bring; namely, inexperienced kids still in their political diapers like Fenty himself.

Mayor Williams had a point!

By the way Rees, it's Alec, not Alex.

yes, Fenty et al are "inexperienced." Compared to your vast experience in...what was it again....dental hygiene?

Why do people insist on getting into personal attacks on this blog. I have always said I appreciate what Anthony Williams has done for the City and that I hope he will do more in the year he has left.

What I don't respect are his vieled attacks on Adrian Fenty. But I would also ask the Fenty people not to attack the Mayor either.

He and Fenty have very different styles of governing and working. The Mayor was the right person for the times and Fenty is the right person for these times. I believe if it were not for Anthony Williams success Adrian Fenty would not be running now. But Williams did succeed in a number of areas and began a rennaisance for this City. But becasue of that and the issues which the Mayor himself still sees as problems, Fenty is the right person for now. We need a person who has a dedicated focus on neighborhoods and a person who can unite this City. We need a person with the political acumen which the Mayor himself has admitted he doesn't always have.

Let's elect Fenty and move this City to the next plateau. He has committed to never proposing a budget that isn't balanced and to doing nothing to ever hurt the high bond ratings the City has achieved. Let's remember that Fenty has also never voted for an unbalanced budget and was willing to make the cuts needed to keep it in balance while at the same time promoting a set of new priorities for the District. He comes from a family with a successful business in the District and knows what needs to be done to promote business.

Anthony Williams is a good Mayor so let's not attack him- but Adrian Fenty will also be a good Mayor. Times change and we need to elect people that fit the times. Now is the time for Adrian Fenty.

dupont, i just wonder whose budget you think was balanced...cropp or fenty's? i also hope that mr. fenty has learned more about the bond ratings since his first debate. i'm just curious how you've decided that he is the proper mayor for our city when he has had such little experience to base your decision on. While his resume may be decent at times, there just doesn't seem to be enough to choose him.

Fenty has not much that he can point to as accomplishements? Really? Fenty's largely set the tone for this year's legislative agenda! Others are proposing bills on topics they formerly did not show much interest in, like eduaction, in reaction to him.

There is indeed a reason why the bulk of DC's activists and government watchdogs have aligned themselves with Fenty, and it's not because they're blind fools.

Having spent ten years running campaigns, I feel like I bring a pretty good eye to politics. Fenty strikes me as all style and no substance. He's hoping that his perceived "freshness" will be enough to get him through to the Mayor's Office. I truly hope not.

First, let's hope that Mr. Fenty has learned from his bond ratings gaffe in an earlier debate.

Second, in my book having prepared more of them than I can count, there's no excuse for filing a bad finance report. If he can't get it right over a few hundred gramd, what is going to happen with an $8 billion budget?

Third, in the stadium debte he is all politics and no public policy. Is the deal a good one for the city? No. But the team IS VERY GOOD FOR THE CITY. And instead of adopting a position of leadership and looking and what makes sense long-term for the city (the revenue that a team and stadium will generate) Mr. Fenty is pandering in banging his drum about the stadium deal. If Mr. Fenty can't look past what makes sense for hsi next election to see what makes sense for the city, he has no place running it.

And yes, Williams took a shot at Fenty in his "prayer." And you know what? Fenty deserved it. Good on you, Tony!

Dear Mayor Williams,

I love my city and don't want a baby (Fenty) running it. I like Mrs. Cropp but her numbers are off. Please endorse Mr Orange for the next Mayor of D.C. We need to continue what you started and I think only Mr Orange can do that not the other candidates. Mr Mayor, if you love this city, then you will do what the people want and that is Orange for Mayor.

i support vincent orange over the other candidates for mayor. he has maturity and smarts without the baggage of linda cropp.
i support vincent grey over cathy patterson. she needs to run for school board president. i support scott bolden rather than phil mendelson. and i support david catania.

Fenty seems to capitalize off of the shortcomings of Williams...obviously he wants to use the district's surplus to "experiment" social programs that will put the District in fiscal choas...

I heard a rumor that the ongoing, online war with Sam Brooks is really a war within the gay community between those with money and status that are backing Brooks and those who do not have such some of whom Brooks walked over in his last campaign.

Since Brooks cannot be sure who it is, he is taking puck shots everywhere blaming some of his rival candidates for it.

At least this is the word traveling around at the bar The fireplace among people who know.

Adrian Fenty is too immature, inexperienced and incompetent to run our city as he was a failure as a lawyer before he decided to run for political office and people should not forget that.

I am not saying that the others are any better but he is the greater of all five evils.

I think when all is said and done, Mayor Williams will come out and endorse Linda Cropp as it last slap in the face of Adrian Fenty who he never liked as is obvious.

I think Fenty should give up his campaign, vacate his seat on the council, move to Hollywood and be a body double for Vin Diesel as that is sure a job he should not be able to botch up!

Funny, Jonathan Rees posted the exact same, specious "debate within the gay community" story on Craigslist Sunday (in violation of their policies by the way.) The poster, along with "Satan" and more than likely the last two posters too -- they're all Rees or the person he has posting on his behalf all over town. obviously

Not Fooled...Rees did no such thing and maybe it is time you tell everyone that your real name is Sam Brooks the jealous kid who has been attacking his rivals on different blogs.

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 just up to his old games

Interesting. I've used a lot of media search tools and talked to a LOT of people who would know. Yet, know one has any links or recollection of Brooks "smearing" Brown.

Why do you keep repeating that, on websites all over town, without any substantiation?

It's just weird.

There is proof of Rees using many fake names at the DC Pages, DC Politics message board, under a post called "more proof of Mr. Rees Multiple Alias Disorder". There are links to the source codes at Yahoo demonstrating it, unless you want to believe that Yahoo is in on a conspiracy against Mr. Rees.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with the Mayor's Prayer.

Perhaps it's time for D.C. Wire to bite the bullet and just to a story on Jonathan Rees, rather than having him post on any unrelated thread. After all, there are a lot of questions and certainly a lot of contradictions regarding this candidate for City Council.

And why not start with the company that Rees claims he works for, Institutional Dental Care, http://www.idcinc.com Does this look like a real company to anyone?

Or with Rees' claim that he went to college at Columbia University. A number of bloggers have tried to verify that -- nobody can confirm that he went to college at Columbia.

Or with Rees' claim that he's on the board of the Los Gellegos Food Corporation of San Juan.

Or with Rees' dozens of aliases.

Or with Rees actually impersonating real people online to promote his campaign.

Or with Rees' continual posting on neighborhood listserves, even after he's been banned from them.

Or with Rees' claim on his campaign's website to have "over twenty (20) years experience in upper business management and government affairs." In fact, he appears to have none.

There's a lot of stuff here for a good story. One component of this story is how it's possible for somebody who's utterly and completely unqualified for elected office, and for whom the truth never matters, to get so many people to think that he's the real deal.

The more I read these attacks on Jonathan Rees the more I believe they are coming from his rival Sam Brooks which adds validity to the story by Eric Weiss about the pie throwing.

It seems that Mr. Brooks is so obsessed with Mr. Rees that it is bordering on a mental illness or at least an absolute fear of him.

I would say to Mr. Brooks that if you are so sure you are going to win then you would not be here on DC Wire constantly attacking your rival Mr. Rees but the fact you are obviously tells all the readers that you fear him, that it drives you day after day to post attacks on his person everywhere you can and you just cannot control this urge to post these attacks also by using aliases.

It is time Mr. Brooks that you take your war elsewhere as posting here on DC Wire is the wrong place as the subject above is not (Why Sam Brooks Hates Jonathan Rees).

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Let us see proof it is Rees. Thank you!

Good question. Why does Sam Brooks hate Jonathan Rees so much? Maybe it is because Jonathan Rees is better able to express himself, better able to put his ideas down on paper, better able to identify problems and come up with viable solutions or maybe it is just that Sam Brooks has a incredible inferiority complex that he cannot stand the thought that anybody can just do it better than him.

Oh please accuse me of being Jonathan Rees as I would be so honored as I would rather be him that a loser like Sam Brooks who is filled with so much hatred it is resulting in self-destruction.

Mr. Sam Brooks as a part of your clean campaign pledge, since you listed 2959 Tilden Street, NW as your campaign headquarters I think the public should know why your failed in your last filing with the OCF to list the cost of that place you are renting and if you are not renting and it has been given to you free of cost by a friend why you did not list such anyway.

I will be waiting for your March 10th filing and if you fail to list the cost of this campaign headquarters, then rest assured that I will use that as a basis to ask the OCF to audit you.

Let us Rock Mr. Schizoid Brooks!

When you look at some of those postings on Craigs List and DC Pages, the first impression you will get is, there are a lot of very sick people out there who are attacking President Bush, Hillary Clinton and the list goes on and on.

I think people are smart enough to know that what we read on those message boards are posted by people with serious mental problems.

I can say from my personal knowledge of Sam Brooks who is clearly the person posting the hateful stuff here that he is being treated for mental illness, is currently under medication to control his bi-polar disorder and I can say that because both of us have been in the same therapy group.

Before you really hurt all chance you have Sam of getting elected to any position that you stop, look at what you are doing and weigh the consequences of it all as it may reach a point where people start being afraid of you and you are labeled.

The internet is replete with your attacks on your political rivals and that is not a way to win an election or voter confidence.

I amy be violating your right to privacy Sam but the rights of others to feel safe in their person exceeds your right to privacy.

You are rendering these forums useless if you continue to allow certain individuals the right to post with abondon like this.

Why is it letters to the editor need to be signed by real people with verified phone numbers/addresses?

Can you not tie posting on these forums to the login information required to access the content?

A loyal reader who will soon ignore this forum.

(to the blog moderators) - I agree with you but to require some form of verification who is posting would mean that real issues by real people would actually get discussed and that is not what those posters are all about.

It would be nice if there was some law that allowed the election people to disqualify candidates that do this but then I guess that would leave nobody except you and I.

I took the time as an impartial person to see if this Jonathan Rees was on the up and up or was shooting us the breeze.

Here is what I discovered.

Institutional Dental Care, Inc., according to the State of Delaware was incorporated there in 1979.

IDC and its doctors are licensed in DC, MD and VA.

That Jonathan Rees is listed in all three jurisdictions as its business manager.

That I called to the PG County Hospital this past week and asked to be transferred to their dental clinic whereby I was given the number 301-618-2333 and when a woman answered the phone identifying the clinic, I asked who their administrator was and could I speak to him. This woman said their administrator was Jonathan Rees but he was not at that location then but at their other location at Northwest Health Care Center which I believe is a retirement home on Wisconsin Avenue NW.

So as far as this IDC being a real company and Jonathan Rees being their big cheese, I am satisfied that he has been on the up and up on this issue whereby anybody else could do the same and get the same result.

It would be nice if honest people who post honest things here and not some of the people who have posted here with what they know not to be the truth for ill gain.

DCRA and the state of Maryland both show IDC as being a revoked company. According to the State of Deleware:

https://sos-res.state.de.us/tin/EntitySearch.jsp

Institutional Dental Care, Inc is available to register today.

I found the same thing: No Institutional Dental Care incorporated in Delaware. But there was an IDC that had been incorporated in Maryland, but no longer. I've appended some information about that.

To me this still looks like a very open question: Where does Mr. Rees, candidate for City Council, work? (And what about Los Gellegos Food Corporation, a company that Mr. Rees claims to be on the board of?)

Name: INSTITUTIONAL DENTAL CARE, INC.
Corporate ID Number: F04149522
Filing State: MD
Type: QUILIFIED FOREIGN CORPORATION
Status: INACTIVE - FORFEITED
Date of Incorporation: 05-25-1995
Address Type: PRINCIPAL OFFICE
3100 20TH ST NE
WASHINGTON, DC 20018

Primary Return Rcvd: N/A 12/15/1998 N/A
Last Assess. TR. CD: N/A 01 N/A
Last Assessment: N/A 01/15/1999 N/A
Previous Status: FORFEITED
Previous Status Date: 11-23-1998

Institutional Dental Care, Inc first incorporated in DC then had it revoked to re-incorporate in Delware on March 11, 1989. The Delaware Division of Corpoartions has IDC, Inc., listed as a valid and operating business.

Go to > https://sos-res.state.de.us/tin/controller

then click on GENERAL INFORMATION.

Then type in Institutional Dental Care, Inc., and you will see it pop up as an active corporation of Delaware with a File# 2188955.

Sorry Mr. Rees did not lie no matter how much you do in your sick effort to try to make an honest man look bad.

For your losers, click here https://sos-res.state.de.us/tin/GINameSearch.jsp

then type in File# 2188955.

See for you so called educated jerks, I will do your job for you.

Read it and weep. Ha ha ha ha

Cool Tammy. It does not take a lot to make Sam Brooks look like the jackass that he is.

Hey Sambo when are you going to pay the money you owe me now that you claim to have $28k you bum.

One can't help but notice the following disclaimer on the Delaware Sec. of State Mr. Rees has linked us to:

>Frequently Asked Questions
>To retrieve information on a Delaware >entity, Key in the name of the entity you >are searching. The search results will >return both active and inactive entities >from our database. This is not an indication >of the current status of an entity.

Obviously the above poster is coming up with something nobody else is.

Calls to the Prince George's Hospital Center yield no dental clinic, no IDC: That's what they say when you call.

There's certainly a big question mark here when it comes to where Jonathan Rees, candidate for City Council, works.

To the Washington Post: Can somebody look into this? I think that the residents of Ward 3 need to know if Jonathan Rees has been padding his resume, as seems to be the case.

Tabby, if you click on the link you provided and enter the information, and pay the $10.00, you will find that the company in question last filed a report in 2000 and is currently a company that has been "Voided" by the State of Delaware.

Further, my calls to the PG Medical Center yields no Jonathan Rees, no IDC and no Dental clinic.

Clearly there are questions about Jonathan Rees's employment and resume.

The Washington Post really needs to investigate this.

If you call that clinic at 301-618-2223 you will get them. Onbviously you are not doing a very good job of researching.

Call the hospital again and ask for the security office and then ask them if there is a dental clinic at the hospital and I am sure as they told me there most definitely is on the first floor.

Everybody is calling the wrong hospital.

The hospital you should be calling is PG Hospital Center >>>http://www.dimensionshealth.org/website/index.php

and I just called them again and they do say that they have a dental clinic openned two days a week.

I think some of you are deliberately lying or are just plain stupid and do not know how to research matters.

Again, I just called to the PG COUNTY HOSPITAL CENTER at 301-618-2333 and they do identify themselves and give an alternative number to their main offices on days they are closed.

Let me take back what I said, you are all a bunch of dummie who I would never hire to work for me because if you cannot do such an easy thing as getting a simple thing straight then you can't be trusted to do anything right.

Have a nice day dummies. I'm out!

Since I had business to attend to in Annapolis today, I stopped off to see what the deal is for myself.

Here goes. There does seem to be some sort of IDC presence at the PG Hospital Center. However, the clinic doesn't appear to be operational right now, certainly not today or this week, according to the folks at the front visitors desk on the 3rd floor, or the folks at the gift shop around the corner.

So Tabby, who claims to have spoken to someone there, is not being fully truthful. The number cited is being forwarded to some other number in DC.

It is unclear if, or when this clinic will reopen.

No one seems to know.

That's as much as I care to report right now.

Kathy

I am told that they are open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-12.

There is a sign on the front wall naming Jonathan Rees as the administrator and where to call during off hours or in case of emergency.

When I called there number I got a recording telling me what number to call if they were not open. I did and I did get the IDC office in DC, I asked for Jonathan Rees, they said he had left for the day and offered to put me through to his voice mail.

My name is Eli Paxtot and I am the former office manager for that company Institutional Dental Care, Inc.

Let me clear this matter up for all.

IDC was started in 1989 by three doctors: Griffiths, Galiber and Levin. It was originally incorporated in Delaware but after Galiber and Levin retired, Griffiths changed its status by having his Michael Giffiths & Associates, P.C. buy up IDC on paper allowing IDC to go into revocation. This happened around 2003.

In 2005, Griffiths in full control hires this man Rees to run his operation which does in fact manage the dental clinic at several hospitals, nuring homes and prisons and within one month of Rees arriving, Rees trashes half the staff, slashes the budget and then actually rebuilt the business back up in this one year time to a point of being stronger than it was back in 2003.

Griffiths is like a lot of medium size business owners where he will hide one company behind a long list of others.

Rees has been truthful but the blame for not being able to verify the facts about IDC should be placed on Griffiths who likes to keep as much secret as possible despite the fact that he is a good dentist.

As for the IDC clinic at Prince Georges Hospital Center, the voice you hear on the recording is mine, it is only open on Tues & Thurs from 9-12 or later if we have special appointments or walk ins and if you go there then, you will see a full staff.

To conclude, I worked there for five years until Rees trashed my *&** too.

But why does every Rees supporter who posts here employ exactly the same highly idiosyncratic writing style as he does? Specific non-standard constructions, syntax, vocabulary choices. I'm fascinated.

Posted by: ??? < They don't but in the mindy of a crazy man like you they do!

Take this crap somewhere else.

Thank you for reinforcing my point.

Why does a story about the Mayor's religious tendencies have to turn into yet ANOTHER ward 3 discussion. Rees, go home, turn off your computer, sell your crazy somewhere else.