Eminentoes
I, Marion Barry
The former D.C. mayor strikes again.
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Barry didn’t think it was important to bother bringing documents the presiding judge demanded. These included the delinquent tax returns that were the basis of the charges against the former mayor.
Surprisingly cheerful about Barry’s brazen contempt of her order, U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson postponed the hearing. Robinson seemed to care little that Barry had tested positive for cocaine and marijuana use in November while awaiting sentencing.
A month later Robinson sentenced Barry to three years probation, but refused to fine him. She could have fined him up to $100,000 on the federal count and $5,000 on the D.C. count.
She ordered the septuagenarian to pay $75 in court costs. She didn’t even scold him.
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Matthew Vadum is an award-winning investigative journalist at a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C. Vadum is also author of Subversion Inc: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.
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IMKessel| 1.30.09 @ 9:02AM
"It's good to be king."
danny| 1.30.09 @ 9:09AM
maybe marion needs to talk with rangel and geithner. you know, pick their brains on the ins and outs of this tax business.
Bruce| 1.30.09 @ 9:38AM
IMKessel,
Yes, it's good to be the king. But, then again, remember what happened to Charles I of England ....
Doctor Right| 1.30.09 @ 10:17AM
In a Democracy, the people get the leaders they deserve.
In their insistence on sending Barry back to elective office time and time again, the people of D.C. get exactly what they deserve - an amoral, cretinous fool who pilfers the city's coffers for his own ends, and who fiddles metaphorically while his city burns (literally) around him.
Marrion Barry in D.C., Kwame Kilpatrick in Detroit, Sheila Dixon in Baltimore, Sharpe James in Newark - they're all cut from the same cloth as Barry. They make rules for the citizenry that they don't apply to themselves. They preside over cities in serious decline, but do nothing to actually improve them. And, when caught with their hands in the cookie jar, they scream "racism" as loud as possible.
Until the people who live and suffer in these cities, and others like them, stop sending these fools to high elected office, I personally have no sympathy for their problems.
Raoul Ortega| 1.30.09 @ 10:58AM
I'm gonna get called a racist for this, but something tells me that if Blagojevich had a darker skin color he would still be governor today, and favorite for reelection next year. But the real racism is not holding people like Berry to any standards.
marie| 1.30.09 @ 11:18AM
Those fools in ward 8 would vote for a pig, if it were a far left like marion. No wait, they did.
Ward 8, the home of the stupid, lazy, gimme losers.
SeniorD| 1.30.09 @ 11:18AM
Washington, D.C is 98% Democrat (the other 2% are diplomats). There is no reason not to believe the entire city payroll is corrupt.
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Loose Lips Daily: Let’s Get Flinty! - City Desk - Washington City Paper links to this page.
Marc Jeric| 1.30.09 @ 1:12PM
Washington D.C is a hellhole of black racism, worse than anything the KKK ever dished out. The corruption there is even worse than in Chicago, if that is possible. The man is right - if Blagojevich had been black nobody would have even whispered about impeachment.
dnha14| 1.30.09 @ 2:43PM
I say make him Under Secretary of the Treasury. It would be fitting.
Steve| 1.30.09 @ 4:48PM
With qualifications like his he would be a great nomination for a position in the current administration. He shares the use of hard drugs with our new president while sharing the tax proclivity of the new Treasury Secretary. If he were only a lobbiest he would be a sho-in.
Everly Waverly| 1.30.09 @ 4:49PM
Marion Barry is a syphilitic disgusting example of a Robert Mugabe wannabe, the guy should one late night just disappear. Will a guy like this ever pay for his continued criminality?
Dustoff| 1.30.09 @ 5:04PM
The people pf DC must be the most stupid people of all to keep electing this damn fool!
HotPat| 1.31.09 @ 12:47AM
Is it spelled "Junkie" or "Junky"? Is one the mayor and the other an lawn ornament?
Interloper| 1.31.09 @ 4:15PM
Why are you going way out of your way to link Marion Barry to President Obama, Matthew? An inquiring mind wants to know.
Barry is a senior citizen with a brain addled from drug use. The way to make sure he gets things done is to appoint a conservator to manage his accounts, file his taxes, makes sure he gets medical treatment, pay his mortgage. etc. Many aged people need this kind of help.
Alan Brooks| 1.31.09 @ 6:31PM
libs weren't so nice about Reagan's alzheimers.
TED TAZMAN| 2.1.09 @ 1:57AM
Can we all understand now? Look at the great ones pick for the so called change he is bringing to Washington. How many of them are having tax issues? Like Marion of old, he will skate as will the new tone hope and change Dem's in Washigton. If you have a D in front of your name, alls well.
Alan Brooks| 2.1.09 @ 5:19PM
Obama HAS to suceed. if he were to resign or even not be re-elected it v. well might invite too much retaliation from blacks. cant take that chance in such an overly sensitive ethnic environment. too much rabble.
see, its not those at the top i fear.
Michele San Pietro| 2.2.09 @ 3:14PM
Marion Barry, one of the most dishonest and corrupt politicians in the United States, represents one of the best examples of racism on the opposite: if he were white, he would have been dead as a politician for ages.
davod| 2.2.09 @ 5:50PM
DC Union chief indicted for theft - $4.6 million,
Tab in Scam At Tax Office In D.C. Nears $50 Million.
Just two instances of good public service in DC.
Jarvis| 2.4.09 @ 9:13PM
Interloper: Why are you going way out of your way to link Marion Barry to President Obama, Matthew?
Excellent question but if you are at all familiar with is writing you already know the answer to that. WTF does Marion Barry have to do with PRESIDENT Obama? About as much as Larry Craig has to do with George Bush. Ok, Marion Barry is quite douche-like but why does everything have to be an indictment of the entire black race?
stefon| 2.9.09 @ 9:04AM
"having been borned and rised in the nation's capital. i still love my city and can't find an cogent
reason why people extol marion barry to be this perfect politician of the 80's and something representing dc politics of improvement at the present? " he is who he is, but........thank God for OBAMA !!!!!!!
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