Posted on 11/05/2004 11:13:28 PM PST by alydar
The 25-year-old son of newly elected congresswoman Gwen Moore was arrested Friday by Milwaukee police and later released in connection with the election day slashing of tires on 20 vans and cars rented by the Republican Party, according to police records.
Sowande Ajumoke Omokunde, also known as Supreme Solar Allah, arrived at the Milwaukee police administration building Friday morning with his attorney, was arrested at 9 a.m. and held in the police holding facility for several hours before being released, according to records.
Omokunde is one of three suspects who had been arrested as of late Friday.
Opel E. Simmons III, 33, a veteran Democratic Party activist from Virginia, was arrested Tuesday and released Thursday without being charged. A 24-year-old man was arrested Friday afternoon in the same case, a police source said.
Investigators want to talk to Michael Pratt, son of former acting Mayor Marvin Pratt, who led Sen. John Kerry's Milwaukee campaign, but have not summoned him yet, police sources said. Michael Pratt could not be reached for comment.
David Feiss, the Milwaukee County assistant district attorney who is handling the case, said he had not received any reports yet and the investigation is continuing.
"There are a number of individuals, local and not local, who we are attempting to contact," Feiss said.
He said several of the suspects have hired attorneys. After talking to suspects, police will release them, he said. If there are charges, Feiss said, their attorneys will be contacted to arrange for them to come to court.
Omokunde, who lives with Moore, a Democrat elected to Congress on Tuesday, was not available for comment, according to a man who answered the phone at Moore's home.
Omokunde's attorney, Robin Shellow, said he was booked by police and released, but declined to comment further.
Shellow said she called police to arrange for Omokunde to come in.
"If the police are looking for one's client, you pick up the phone and say (to police), 'What would you like us to do, and how could we make your job easier?' . . . That's the way responsible families handle it."
On Tuesday morning, 27 tires on 20 cars and vans rented by the Republican Party to carry voters to the polls were slashed. The vehicles were parked in the 7100 block of W. Capitol Drive.
So they been there and done that? Oh.
Any chance of him getting more than community service?
The IQ amongst the four of them must be truly staggering.
Something tells me I should read the story for even more laughs.
Ye gods and little fishes! If this group gets and Federal aide/grants,it needs to be stopped immediately!
This is what the democrats are up against. Kerry is trying to be nuanced and they cannot even get down the basis. Violent crimes against persons and property are the oldest laws on the books, but when tire-slashing is a misdemeanor, but dumping a load of dirt on a marshy spot on your lot is a felony crime against the environmnet, then there are no laws.
In that part of Milwaukee, that was his community service.
That's included under empowerment. Arrest and front page publicity is covered under exposure.
Yes...and knowing history is a BIG help. LOL
I'd guess its the pinholed ballots. It's the hatpins- great for multiple voting in urban districts. The Democrats always used hatpins to punch fraudulent ballots in Illinois [and in Florida until lately]- I used to work the elections there and for a while we were required to punch the chads out of pinholed ballots so the machines could count them. If you objected you would be accused of racism, or "disenfranchisement" because the Democrats always pinholed ballots in minority areas. (After all, not many farmers in Illinois need hatpins to keep their ballcaps in place.) Maybe Illinois still does count pinholed ballots- though at one point they finally threw out pinholed and other damaged ballots. Given the way Illinois has gone in recent years though, it would not be surprising if the libs have probably repealed that law and made pinholed ballots "legit" again.
The Democrats used hatpins to punch multiple ballots [a stylus is WAY too short] whenever they needed the votes to beat the opposition. On occasion they did it to other Democrats in tight races and did it to us all the time. I guess they used pins because because they are long and thin enough to go through several ballots at a time and make vote-fabrication less time consuming. They would still be late getting the ballots to the counting center. Pinhole districts were ALWAYS Democrat, were ALWAYS high-crime or union thug precincts where we had no local GOP volunteers to watch the polls, and the ballots were ALWAYS late being returned because it takes time for even the least guarded and fastest rat to fake enough votes to put a candidate over the legit vote tally of his opponent. The pinholes favored Rat candidates when tallied.
Sometimes the crooks would be in such a hurry to punch enough ballots that they'd get sloppy and the pins would veer off the mark as they passed through the stack, making it look like a lot of voters were drunk, or were just idiots who didn't know how to put a ballot in a slot. (The Democrats depend, as we saw in 2000 in Fl, on the perception that their voters are dumber and more accident prone than everyone else to get away with the Democrat voting scams. )The counting judges of the contending parties have to guess which chad the crooks were aiming for and "correct" the vote and agree to count it, but this is meaningless since the crime was already done BEFORE the ballot made it to the counters. because the pinholed chads are punched out by elections officials, this means that the pinholed ballots seldom were incriminating because the evidence- the fact they were pinholed- was destroyed when the chads were removed during the 'correction' at the counting office. The only way to tell if the ballot had been tampered with was in the case where pinholes veered and missed a chad.
The best way to prevent this is to avoid using the card ballots or at least to get good elections judges/deputies to watch precincts and insure voters know how to vote so the Dems can't use stereotyping to cover for their fraud.
Are you kidding? He's going to become a congressional aide.
Yeah, but now she works for you!
FReeper MilwGuy was alluding to this in an earlier post.
I hope they have security tapes on the acts of these perps. That would be great!!!!!!!
"In addition to these goals, the mentors promote guidance, friendship, creativity, self-confidence, and positivity to enhance the life of the community. "
These guys have the dem. hypocrisy routine down.
Sorry Gwen! Better strike that speech come time for reelection!
Cream City Mentors Embrace Community Youth
The outside looks like any other house, but to Riverwest youth, The Street Academy of Cream City Mentors Incorporated is home. Located at 2438 N. Bremen Street, the Cream City Mentors is run by Supreme Solar Allah, 23; Self Wise Allah, 24; Universal Knowledge Allah, 25; and Charles Dennis, 50.
“Our program is based on a sincere love for seeing people succeed and overcoming challenges and obstacles in their lives,” Self Wise said.
While the Cream City Mentors group was established in 1999, the group of young black males, (although Self Wise is bi-racial), has always been involved with neighborhood children.
Spending time with children through one-on-one activity, both academic and social, allows the mentors to explore and uncover the needs of the Riverwest youth they work with, Self Wise said. The mentors help with schoolwork, act as tutors, plan trips, and share wisdom with these individuals. The depth of their community involvement eventually led to the development of the Cream City Mentors organization.
Their names are as unique as the miracles produced by the non-profit mentorship program. “Our names are reflective of our culture…our way of life,” Supreme Solar said. “We each chose our own names for personal and specific reasons that reflect how we view ourselves.”
The organization reaches out to children in two age brackets: 12-14 and 15-17. “The age groups are divided because teenagers are on different levels,” Self Wise said. “Younger teens are still sorting things out for themselves, while older teens are going through a transition to adulthood.”
The Cream City Mentors have three main goals: Citizenship, Exposure, and Empowerment. “The goal of citizenship is to get young individuals to recognize they are citizens and they have rights and responsibilities,” Supreme Solar said. “We want to teach them they can utilize the government to improve their lives because that’s the way it was set up for them.”
Their second goal, exposure, is to introduce the youth to a world outside their immediate surroundings and allow them to explore other communities through trips to a number of places throughout Milwaukee, such as the Art Museum and Black Holocaust Museum.
Their final goal, empowerment, addresses the importance of self-esteem, recognition of individual talents, and knowledge of self. Through that knowledge, young people can take control of their lives and work to improve their situations.
In addition to these goals, the mentors promote guidance, friendship, creativity, self-confidence, and positivity to enhance the life of the community.
Our President & Principal Consultant has had varied professional experiences that lend themselves to the development and success of The Simmons Group, Inc. He has served as a political consultant, helping to organize campaigns for candidates for public office throughout the United States. In 1992, he played a pivotal role in the election of President William "Bill" Clinton, serving as Deputy Director of Northeast Field Operations for the Clinton/Gore campaign. Following the election he assisted in the planning and preparation of the inauguration of President Clinton.
Mr. Simmons has served as the Director of Community Outreach for the Richmond Symphony, a Richmond based non-profit arts organization. While there he developed and implemented four outreach programs designed to enhance the organization's role as a community partner and attract new, more diverse audiences.
In 1998, Mr. Simmons accepted a position with Xerox Corporation as a Sales Representative in Richmond, VA. Based upon his success, he was promoted to Marketing Executive, responsible for Federal Accounts, and relocated to Washington, DC. In DC, he was responsible for the implementation of enterprise-wide business solutions for six federal government agencies, the likes of which included the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the United States General Accounting Office and the United States Agency for International Development.
Prior to establishing The Simmons Group, Inc., Mr. Simmons served as a Financial Specialist/Business Banker with First Union National Bank (now Wachovia). He attained both the Series 6 and Series 63 investment licenses as regulated by the NASD and a Virginia State Life and Health insurance license. He was responsible for addressing the financial needs of his clients, to include individuals and small businesses, and growing a book of business in excess of fourteen (14) million dollars.
And why would Omokunde be on the PAYROLL of the Democratic Party?
http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/expend.asp?txtName=o&Cmte=DPC&cycle=2004&sort=name
Recipient Amount Date Description
Omokunde, Sowande A $492 9/30/2004 Payroll
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