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[Marion] Barry apologizes for awarding contract to ex
Washington Post ^ | 2.22.10

Posted on 02/23/2010 12:41:59 PM PST by meandog

Edited on 02/23/2010 4:23:26 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

D.C Council member Marion Barry (D) apologized Tuesday for causing "great embarrassment to the city and City Council" for awarding a city contract to a woman he had been dating.

Barry made his apology one week after Attorney Robert S. Bennett issued a report concluding that the councilman may have violated numerous laws when he hired Donna Watts-Brighthaupt.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: apology; barry; corruptdems; dc; districtofcolumbia; marionbarry
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To: EyeGuy
Just wait until his home town buddy King Willie Hereaton is elected Congressman from the 9th district of Tn. Ya haven’t seen anything in the way of corruption when those two get together in DC.
21 posted on 02/23/2010 2:34:43 PM PST by Coldwater Creek ("We must have pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of pie." David Mamet)
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To: meandog

Obama will make him Anti-Corruption Czar.


22 posted on 02/23/2010 3:17:43 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: martin_fierro

I saw that in Trader Joes. LOL!


23 posted on 02/23/2010 3:45:51 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINOS)
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To: All

The people of Washington DC deserve the misery they live in.
The fact that this idiot can still win an election erases any and all sympathy I have for the people living in this rotting town..


24 posted on 02/23/2010 4:53:55 PM PST by Maverick68
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To: Rummyfan

Barry is an “alley cat”. He’ll screw everyone he can find, physically, financially, morally (he has none).

This POS does have more than 9 lives. Back in 1970 I was helping a congressman’s office and their investigator who was looking into corruption and communism in the DC Teachers Union (Bill Simons, David Elsila, Charles Chang - all Detroit/Ypsilanti reds).

Fortunately for Barry, the congressman lost his reelection and the files were destroyed, because there was enough information there for a grand jury indictment on charges of financial fraud (his first wife went to jail for him) in his “poverty” programs; possibly illegal arms buying; and influence peddling/jobs scandals.

Then there was the reported situation(not by the mainstream media) that Barry beat his second wife, Elfie Barry, and she had to go to a hospital in Baltimore for hidden treatment. A friend of hers, and mine, saw her in the hospital there and learned the truth about the injuries, which had been reported as a fall. They separated and divorced not too long after that.

Reports that Barry cheated on all of his wives (at least three).

His Vice Mayor, old SNCC/IPS radical Ivanhoe Donaldson, went to jail for stealing upwards of $330-500,000 in poverty funds while in office.

The list just goes on and on. Cokehead, crook, adulterer, leftist. A typical DC politician.

Yes, Marion Barry, the Democratic Mayor For Life. Should have been the Democratic Mayor is Serving Life. Now that would be justice.


25 posted on 02/23/2010 5:04:44 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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