everyone knows Fenty skips forums because every time he speaks people get nervous about him as mayor. Linda "flip-flop" Cropp probably doesn't even know if she'll be at a forum until the time of the forum....

the only grounded candidate seems to be marie johns. it would be nice if people -- including the Post -- stopped treating this as a 2 person race and realized people are free to vote for the BEST candidate.

www.johnsformayor.com

Michael Brown knows the kind of leadership this city needs for all residents to prosper. And he is the best candidate.

Yes, the Post has made it clear that they think Cropp & Fenty are the only candidates, however responses from particiapants at the countless forums say otherwise.

See http://www.flowinsiders.com/words/054.asp

for a true picture of how residents are responding to Michael Brown.

The above few weird, nasty, off-topic posts are from Jonathan Rees.

You can whine, complain, and avoid the obvious, but this is a two person race for Mayor. Cropp and Fenty have the edge. Johns can't escape the Sharon Pratt comparison; Orange can't escape being Orange; and Brown is living on papa's reputation. DC voters, rightly or wrongly, are not in the mood to gamble on an unknown quantity.

Scooby Do is Rees.

Will someone please ask Bush to declare Rees an enemy combatant?

Thank you.

That would go against the many public statements that Rees has made claiming that there is no reason to attend any forums.

I will be surprised if he is there on the podium, and if he is, I will want to ask him about irratic and psychotic behavior.

I think we should scalp tickets outside. People once paid good money to get a glimpse of the Elephant Man, or to see G. G. Allin perform.

We can even hire a side show barker: "Come come all! See with your own eyes The Face of Pure Crazyass Evil! Look on in Fear and Amazement at The Man With No Morals! SEE the menacing lunacy of this troubled and indecent creature for yourself! Absolutely no children or pregnant women will be allowed on the Premises!"

Where is there any concept that Sam Brooks, or any other candidate (except Gordon and Rice, who have, either themselves, or though surrogates, posted in this forum) has particpated in any of these blogs or listservers.

Rees is living in his own world to think that anyone who criticizes him is Sam Brooks, or is associated with Sam Brooks.

I don't know why I bother baiting the Reesbot, but here goes --

Look, dude, I live in Ward 3. In a very main, metro-accessible area.

The last time I saw a single one of your fliers was last summer, when it was stapled to a telephone pole and was slowly rotting away.

There are signs all over my area -- and NONE of them are yours. Either you've put up your crazy crap or you haven't; don't say that Ward 3 is choked with your fliers when it clearly isn't.

Billy,

If you know Rees so well, mind telling the forum about his former employment at the Kennedy Warren and the circumstances of his dismissal from that job?

It is this kind of obfuscation which begins to describe why the man is unfit for office.

He doesn't even show that employment on his resume. Indeed, where is is resume? Why doesn't he disclose his professional and educational qualifications for office? All of the other candidates have. These are basic things that the public needs to know.

If Fenty is a frontrunner, than why is he so far behind? Cropp might have Mayor Williams in her back pocket, but she's carrying more bagage than him. The only true candidate for mayor is Orange.

See the light "Orange 2006"

Not all attention benefits you, Rees. Except perhaps psychologically, in a way I frankly can't comprehend. (I suspect a distand and/or unpredictable parent. Perhaps one with an addiction issue.)

Despite the shopworn dictum, there is, in fact such a thing as bad publicity. And your attracting it in spades.

And from what I can gather, there's more to come.

Anyone who's followed your tawdry online posting career and seen your recent websites about Attorney Jackson, DCist Jason and DCist Martin ( or saw your "plain brown package" comment on City Paper) would naturally fear you.

Not you as a political rival, but you as a vengeful sociopath at loose in the community. Because you apparently have no morals, no sense of propriety and no self-control.

We love when you post statistics that you've clearly made up.

Pure, sociopathic comedy gold.

"Hatefulness"? Wrong word. Our antipathy toward you is well-earned. Your loathesome actions have begged the negative reactions they've received.

In fact, it's wrong to remain silent when someone is doing very bad things.

Can't prove a negative, Rees. Site a primary source for your statitics about blog readership.

Also, they might have told you that Saint Elizabeth's is a condominium complex, but it's really not.

But why did you use such revolting, misogynist and anti-gay slurs?

That's not the point.

Duh.

Seriously. You REALLY think that it's appropriate for a candidate for office to create a website like that? SERIOUSLY?

You've GOT to be kidding!

You're weird.

And I don't mean the good kind of weird.

I am the person Rees slurred in various postings and blogs. I represented his ex-wife in domestic violence and divorce proceedings many years ago, and he has not stopped stalking and harassing me since. He sued me (and several judges) in different federal courts - all cases dismissed with prejudice - then posted my photo and lurid information on a website to attract obscene responses, and even (years ago) subpoenaed my bank account and apartment manager to get personal information. His harassment of me pales in significance to his behavior towards his ex-wife, who got a protection order against him in a Virginia court.

It is a criminal act under D.C. law to harass someone repeatedly with malicious intent as Rees does, not only to me, but to many others.

During the course of the divorce proceedings, Rees was ordered to submit to a psychiatric evaluation. The court psychiatrist in 1992 found him not competent to represent himself: "Mr. Rees either purposely lied to me or distorted reality, due to a pathologic process, or both. It appears reality is interpreted to meet his own internal needs. Given his functioning, he is not capable of entering into agreements nor abiding by decisions of the court."

Rees started this case by suing for custody of his infant daughter, but then he denied paternity, and he has boasted repeatedly in emails that he has never paid any child support. He has also said that "most Salvadoreans [sic] should be booted back to El Salvador," though now he's putting up signs in Spanish saying that he's a Latino.

Rees may unleash a further torrent of vitrol upon me, but he is now on notice that his behavior can be considered criminal stalking, and people already know how to identify the IP addresses from which he makes posts.

Rather than continue to respond to his posts, trying to reason with a person incapable of rationality, perhaps the better policy is to ignore him.

Suzanne,

Thank you for shedding light on this story, which now seems very sad. The main issue at this point is that the moderators of these forums need to be more diligent about deleting posts which are obviously from this individual, so as to not raise the ire of the web-surfing public that has come to call out the lies and distoritions of Mr. Rees. It is not fair to the private citizens (such as yourself) or the other candidates in the Ward 3 race, most of whom have suffered on-line attacks from this individual)

DCWire staff: PLEASE STOP THIS NONSENSE. At the very least, ban Jonathan R. Rees' IP address. Just look at your own Terms of Srevice at the bottom of this page. He violates them repeatedly.

"Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or privacy policies or any other policies governing this site." P

lease, please, please follow the guildlines you set up when you created this blog. Rees is making (well, he already has made, but it's only getting worse) this blog a joke. Just look at dcist for the kind of thoughtful, interesting discussion that can take place on a local news/politics blog. And then look at your blog.

If anyone cares, ample documentation about Rees can be found, starting with the court records from D.C. Superior Court in Rees v. Reyes, DR 707-91d and DR 2221-91d; U.S. District Court for DC, Rees v. Reyes et al., CA 92-0056, Rees v. Ferrari et al., 1994 US Dist. LEXIS 7433; U.S. v. Ramirez, 162 F.R.D. 253 (1995); all are public records. In the last of these cases, the court filed that "Rees filed the Complaint...for the improper purpose of harassing defendants to exact revenge for personal grievances," and that Rees threatened the Court in a phone call to the US Attorney's office, represented himself to a judge as a member of the US Attorney's office, and filed a brief purporting to be on behalf of the government. He was fined $1,500.

My earlier post should not have said that I am "the" person Rees slurred - just one of many.

This is fascinating stuff. See DC Wire, if a blog is run properly, you can actually MAKE news, not just comment on it.

Ms. Jackson:

Thank you. What you've posted jibes with what DCWire readers have long suspected. In a world peopled by Rees' spectres, mythical creatures and shades, it's good to get a dose of reality. It's his peculiar, if evil, genius that he can almost make you believe the patently unbelievable. Almost.

One more thing. Rees has repeatedly denied being divorced. I now officially don't believe a word he says.

Your bravery is commendable, given what an apparent threat this guy is to the community. I hope you can get a restraining order against him that requires him to stay off the internet.

How does Dr. Michael Griffiths feel about your using IDC time to post on the internet? Does Michael Griffiths know that you post racist, sexist and otherwise psychotic information on the internet using his phone lines, his computers and his time and money?

Do you really have a job?

Rees, you're pathetic.

I would love to see the following headline in a local paper (not the Post, since they seem more interested in letting weirdos vent than actually engaging the community in a dialogue about the upcoming local elections) if someone ever bothered reading the rants on here by one aspirant to higher office. It would be modeled on the frequent headlines in the NY Post about Michael Jackson, captioned "Wacko Jacko" and would read, simply,

WACKO REES-O!

What a nut ball.

Interesting. If you do a reverse lookup of the name and address posted above, nothing seems to jibe. If you do a Google search on the name posted above, there doesn't seem to be a real person fitting the name with anything having to do with the greater Washington Metro area.

I guess other than the rants of a madman, nothing else seems to add up.

Rees's "Mrs. Green" postings are particularly disturbing in their venom. It is almost amusing that after no one responded to his first "Mrs. Green" post, he couldn't even wait 30 minutes to post a second one attempting to point out the reasons why the first was believable. Almost, if his malicious, false, and slanderous attacks weren't such a serious matter.

That "Lidia Green" letter is a laff riot! Seriously, Rees, you should give up whatever job you supposedly have and become a correspondent for the Weekly World News.

If you actually did call GWU, you're even more malicious and petty than everyone says.

Given what you've done here, I'm reasonably certain that, like any rational person, Ms. Jackson isn't going to bother feeding your mania any further. I'd recommend that she avoids you like the plague. There's no point in arguing with a lunatic.

Moreover, why should she, or anyone else, answer any question you pose? YOU'RE the (alleged) candidate, and you've refused to answer even the most basic questions about yourself.

There's no point in "debating" Jonathan Rees and his various aliases. It's clear that no matter how solid the proof, Rees will come back with a denial, and he will disparage and attack anyone whose facts he doesn't like.

If you want to know what's true and what isn't simply search Lexis or Pacer. If you don't have access to those databases, just start with Google and search for "Jonathan Rees City Council."

Rees has already crossed a line by posting harassing comments about numerous individuals and by making threats. I hope things don't get worse.

I guess Rees doesn't think anyone has access to the most recent, or even some older Verizon White Pages.

Bra-vo.

Clap Clap Clap.

If it isn't already patently obvious, please do not give in to any temptation to test the falsehood of Mr. Rees' dribble and contact Ms. Jackson. I know Suzanne well, both personally and professionally, and I am just disgusted by his continued harrassment of her, all of which, much to his pleasure, would be exacerbated by a flood of emails, even if well-intentioned. She is a busy woman, has devoted her life to working in the public interest, and most certainly does not deserve his grotesque attentions. This is the last time I will dignify his rants with a response. The only reason I don't sign this with my full name is that I doubt I could hold up to his repeated professional assaults with the grace that she has.

So, what about your "employer" Dr. Griffiths. Does he mind that you post here, using his resources, on company time?

Hypocrite.

Line has been hurdled long since, but this is getting sublime.

I must admit that I, at first, was bring drawn towards Fenty, NEVER Cropp or Orange. But as I learn more and more about the Day to Day operations of the District Government, the more I find that I don't want ANY of the current leadership to sit in the lead chair.
Of Fenty, I have a basic integrity concern. "What did you do with that old lady's money?" and "Why is the leadership in your campaign white and the "grunt" workers in the street young blacks?" That is an issue that needs to be addressed by his opponents.
My vote, as it stands, is with the wild card Marie Johns. Orange endorsed the excessive travel of Government Officials (i.e. DC Office of Risk Management Leadership's recent week-long Trip to Hawaii)to a "convention" that brings nothing substantive to the Government, I mean, COME ON, the ENTIRE Management staff.

I think Johns is a fresh new approach to government fiscal responsibility balanced by sincerity to the very real challenges of the disadvantaged in the District.

I went down to the DC Superior Court to see this case concerning ward 3 candidate Rees. This case consisted of three very thick files. I had to show ID, sign my name and more. I also had to view it under supervision of a clerk. While I was flipping through all of these papers and other matters, I found something very funny about it.

What I found was, there were pictures in the file of Rees and they were not of that crazy candidate Rees. It was a series of pictures of a tall, blond hair guy who looked well over six feet tall and these were pictures were submitted to the court by this attorney Jackson in May 1991.

You have to go down and view this file as I did and you will see that the pictures of this Rees is not the picture of Rees that appears on the campaign flier.

What is going on here? Anybody know?

Please delete Rees' post above. Thanks.

We don't need any more disinformation around here.