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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: CJS3 on May 18, 2012, 06:34:26 PM
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Good ad gimmick ;D
http://dcist.com/2012/05/barry_beer_ad_taken_down_after_call.php
It wouldn't work if there wasn't some truth in it.
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They need to find another hooker
I think Delorean is dead, they could use his line about coke "This stuff is good as gold".
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How did he get his job back?
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D.C.? Nevermind,......might as well be on crack.....
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Can you believe this guys freaking history ?
The crack is just part of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Barry#1990_Arrest
Despite his history of political and legal controversies, Barry remains a figure of enormous popularity and influence on the local political scene of Washington D.C. The alternative weekly Washington City Paper nicknamed him "Mayor-for-Life," a designation that remained long after Barry left the mayoralty.[3] The Washington Post has stated that "To understand the District of Columbia, one must understand Marion Barry."[
Barry attended LeMoyne College (now LeMoyne-Owen College), graduating in 1958.[5] While at LeMoyne, his ardent support of the civil rights movement earned him the nickname "Shep", in reference to Soviet propagandist Dmitri Shepilov.[5] Barry began using Shepilov as his middle name
While serving on the D.C. city council, Barry was shot on March 9, 1977, by radical Hanafi Muslims (from a breakaway sect of the Nation of Islam) when they overran the District Building.[6] Barry was shot near his heart[15] during the two-day 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege in which hostages were held by the terrorists
Wasteful contract spending also became a problem in the second Barry administration; in his first term Barry had made a point of insisting that any firm wishing to do business with the city have minority partners, and shepherding legislation requiring 35% of all contracts to go to minority-owned firms. The policy was modified in his second term such that the administration gave contracts to Barry’s political connections and high-end campaign contributors to the tune of $856 million,[21] but without any oversight from the city. As such, the cost of services such as heating oil for the public schools inflated 40 percent, without any guarantee that the goods and services were being provided. City councilman John A. Wilson commented that “What started out to benefit the minority community at large has meant some politically influential blacks can move out to posh suburbs.”[3]
Major scandal caught up to the mayor in his second term. Several of his associates were indicted for financial malfeasances, including former administration officials Ivanhoe Donaldson and Alphonse G. Hill. Barry also began to be plagued by rumors and press reports of womanizing and of alcohol and drug abuse; in particular, stories abounded of his cocaine use in the city’s nightclubs and red-light district. In 1984, Barry’s onetime lover Karen Johnson was convicted of cocaine possession and contempt of court for refusing to testify to a grand jury about Barry’s drug use
Notoriously, Barry was attending the Super Bowl in California when a winter blizzard struck Washington in January 1987, leaving city crews to badly mishandle the road clearing.[3][20]
In 1987 crack exploded in the city,[29] as did territorial wars among drug dealers; 1988 saw 369 homicides in DC, the most ever in the city.[30] That record was broken again when the next year had 434 homicides,[31] and it was broken yet again when 1990 had 474 homicides, making Washington's murder rate the highest in the nation. DC government's employment and deficits grew even as city services suffered; in particular, there were frequent press reports of deaths occurring because police lacked cars to get to crime scenes, and EMS services responded slowly or went to the wrong address
By late 1989, federal officials had been investigating Barry for six years on suspicion of illegal drug possession and use; that fall, they were able to make cases against several of Barry's associates for past cocaine use, including Charles Lewis – a native of the U.S. Virgin Islands who was implicated in a drug investigation involving Barry and a room at Washington’s Ramada Inn in December 1988 – and a former girlfriend, ex-model Rasheeda Moore.
Barry captured on a surveillance camera smoking crack cocaine during a sting operation by the FBI and D.C. Police.
On January 18, 1990, Barry was arrested with Moore in a sting operation at the Vista Hotel by the FBI and D.C. Police for crack cocaine use and possession.[32] The incident was widely broadcast on television, showing an enraged Barry excoriating Moore, who had become an FBI informant. The outburst, in which Barry muttered, in part, "Bitch set me up," became a popular quote associated with Barry.[33]
Barry was charged with three felony counts of perjury, 10 counts of misdemeanor drug possession, and one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to possess cocaine. The criminal trial ended in August 1990 with a conviction for only one possession incident, which had occurred in November 1989, and an acquittal on another. The jury hung on the remaining charges. Six or seven jurors (of whom two were white and the rest black) believed that the evidence against Barry was overwhelming and that he had displayed "arrogance" during the trial. Against these, five black jurors were convinced that the prosecution had falsified evidence and testimony as part of a racist conspiracy against Barry, and even disputed factual findings that had not been contested in court.[34][35] After scolding the jurors for not following his instructions, the judge declared a mistrial on the remaining charges.
Barry was sentenced to six months in federal prison shortly before the November election,[42] which he lost – in the first (and to date only) electoral loss of his career – despite doing well among the voters of Ward 8.[43] His wife and son moved out of the house later that month.[44] In October 1991, Barry surrendered himself at a correctional facility in Petersburg, Virginia. While serving his time, Barry was accused of letting a woman perform oral sex on him in a prison waiting room,[45] a charge Barry denied.[46] Barry was transferred to another federal prison in Loretto, Pennsylvania.[46] Barry was released in April 1992.[47]
Barry was released from prison in 1992, and two months later filed papers to run for the Ward 8 city council seat in that year's election.[48] Barry ran under the slogan "He May Not Be Perfect, But He's Perfect for D.C.
Despite his earlier statements to the contrary, observers of Barry's council victory expressed beliefs that he was laying ground for a mayoral run in 1994.[50] Indeed, Barry fulfilled expectations when he formally announced his candidacy for mayor on May 21, 1994 and was immediately regarded as a serious challenge to the unpopular incumbent mayor, Sharon Pratt Kelly.[51] Despite much opposition, including an abortive effort to recall his 1992 council election,[52] Barry won a three-way Democratic primary contest for mayor with 48% of the vote on September 13.[53] The victory, coming after Barry's videotaped crack use and conviction, shocked the nation, carrying front page headlines in newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe.[2]
Another oft-repeated Barry quote came in the aftermath of his electoral victory, in which he counseled those voters who opposed his mayoral campaign to "get over it.".[56]
Barry was sworn into office on January 2, 1995, and was almost immediately confronted with a financial crisis.[57] The budgetary problems of his previous administrations had only increased during Kelly's term, with city officials estimating a fiscal 1996 deficit between $700 million and $1 billion.[2] In addition, city services remained extremely dysfunctional due to mismanagement. One month into his term, Barry declared that the city government was "unworkable" in its present state and lobbied Congress to take over the areas of its operation that were analogous to typical state government functions.[58] Wall Street, which Barry had convinced just after his election to continue investing in municipal bonds, reduced the city's credit rating to "junk status.
The next two years were dominated by budgetary and policy battles between Barry and the Control Board — along with Chief Financial Officer Anthony A. Williams — for power over the District of Columbia's operation. The conflict was ultimately settled when in 1997 the Clinton Administration and Senator Lauch Faircloth agreed on legislation that rescued the city from its financial crisis but stripped Barry of all authority (including hiring and firing) over nine District agencies, making them directly answerable to the Control Board. Barry was left with control of only the Department of Parks and Recreation, the public libraries, and the Board of Tourism, as well as the ceremonial trappings of his office — a condition he characterized “a rape of democracy.”[60][61]
Barry declined to run for a fifth term in office in June 1998, stating his belief that Congress would not restore home rule to DC while he was mayor.[
On March 6, 2002, Barry declared his intention to challenge at-large council member Phil Mendelson in the Democratic primary.[63] Within a month, he decided against running, after an incident in which U.S. Park Police found traces of marijuana and cocaine in his car
September 14, 2004.[65] Barry received 95% of the vote in the general election, giving him a victory in the race to represent Ward 8 in the Council
During the 2006 mayoral election, Barry endorsed Adrian Fenty
In July 2007, Marion Barry was chosen as one of fifty wax statues to debut in the Washington D.C. franchise of Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. Barry was chosen by a majority of Washington residents and tourists from Tussauds' "Top 10 Wish List," in a contest that pitted him against Cal Ripken, Al Gore, Denzel Washington, Carl Bernstein, Halle Berry, Martin Sheen, Marilyn Monroe, Nancy Reagan and Oprah Winfrey
In May 2009, Barry voted against a bill committing Washington, D.C. to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. During his 2008 reelection campaign, Barry had told members of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the city's largest LGBT political group, "I don’t think you should make [supporting the bill] a litmus test. But if a bill like that were to come up, I would vote for it."[70] Following his May 2009 vote against recognizing gay marriages, Barry was criticized for what activists believed to be an apparent flip-flop.[71] Councilman Phil Mendelson said he was surprised by the vote because Barry had signed on as a co-introducer of the marriage bill.[71] Barry said his position had not changed and warned that the council needed to move slowly on this issue. Citing his belief that the local African American community is overwhelmingly opposed to gay marriage, "All hell is going to break loose", Barry said. "We may have a civil war. The black community is just adamant against this
On October 28, 2005, Barry pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charges stemming from an IRS investigation. The mandatory drug testing for the hearing showed Barry as being positive for cocaine and marijuana. On March 9, 2006, he was sentenced to three years probation for misdemeanor charges of failing to pay federal and local taxes, and underwent drug counseling.[73][74]
In 2007, federal prosecutors sought to have his probation revoked for failure to file his 2005 tax return. U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson refused, saying that prosecutors had not proved that the failure was willful, even if Barry was aware he had missed the deadline.[75] According to Judge Robinson, sentencing Barry to jail without proving that he willfully failed to file his taxes would contradict precedent set by the United States Supreme Court.[75]
On February 9, 2009, prosecutors filed a motion in federal court to revoke Barry's probation for not filing his 2007 tax return, which violated his probation.[76][77] According to one prosecutor, Barry has not filed his taxes eight of the last nine years.[
On September 9, 2011, the Internal Revenue Service filed a notice of federal tax lien against Barry because of $3,200 of unpaid federal income taxes for 2010.[90] Barry attributed the lien to poor communication between the Internal Revenue Service and his representatives.[91]
On September 10, 2006, Barry was stopped by Secret Service Uniformed Division police officers after stopping at a green light and running a red light.
The police officers asked Barry to give a urine analysis, which Barry refused.[92] The officers gave Barry a ticket for running a red light and failing to submit to a urine analysis.[92] He was also charged with driving an unregistered vehicle and misuse of temporary tags
On December 16, 2006, the Park Police pulled over Barry for driving too slowly, which Barry later said was because he was trying to figure out where to enter an elementary school's parking lot for a nonprofit foundation's event.[97] After looking up Barry's record, the police officer told Barry that his license had been suspended and ticketed Barry for operating a vehicle on a suspended license, despite Barry's insistence to the contrary.[97] Two days later, the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed that Barry's license had not actually been suspended and said a computer glitch must have caused the error.
On July 4, 2009, Barry was taken into custody by the Park Police after political consultant Donna Watts-Brighthaupt, his ex-girlfriend, claimed he was stalking her.[99] Barry was arrested and charged with "misdemeanor stalking". Following an interview with authorities, he was released on citation and told he must appear before the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on July 9.[100][101] However, all charges were dropped on July 8.[102]
An investigative report by Special Counsel said that Barry had personally benefited from a contract that he had awarded to his then-girlfriend Donna Watts-Brighthaupt.[103][104] The report stated that Barry had awarded a contract to Watts-Brighthaupt, who then repaid money owed to Barry with the proceeds of the contract.[103] When interviewed by the Special Counsel, Watts-Brighthaupt admitted plagiarizing substantial portions of her study from a publicly available study by the United States Department of Education.[104] The Special Counsel report also said that Barry had requested 41 earmarks in 2009 worth $8.4 million, some of which were paid to organizations "rife with waste and abuse."[105] The report also said that Barry had impeded the investigation by refusing to respond to questions and by telling witnesses not to respond to questions and not give subpoenaed documents to the Special Counsel.[106]
At a party celebrating his primary victory for his D.C. council seat on April 3, 2012, Barry said, “We’ve got to do something about these Asians coming in, opening up businesses, those dirty shops. They ought to go, I’ll just say that right now, you know. But we need African-American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too.”[110] The remarks led one of his D.C. Council colleagues, Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6), to decry the remarks as “deplorable.” Five suburban Maryland lawmakers of Asian descent also called on Barry to apologize in a statement saying “At best, Mr. Barry’s attack on Asian Americans is deeply troubling, and at worst it is race baiting.”
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How did he get his job back?
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D.C.? Nevermind,......might as well be on crack.....
We need a "Like" button on Downrange TV, great post twyacht!!!