Friday, 5 October 2012

[WardFive] Re: [ward5] Grosso has drug conviction

Debbie,
 
Yea but we know that things are different for Whites and Blacks when it comes from that.  And to be fair, our young men are not locked down on a first offense for 2 oz. of weed.  Real Talk -- the problem that we have downtown is that our own are not giving us the respect to be forthright with us. So we have the White Man and The Black Council Man working against us because we are too ________________ stupid to make decisions for ourselves.  Look at all the issues that Ward 5 has and is going through and who is to blame for that but our folks -- Real talk and we just put another one down there who seems to be amalgamating with the others.  Imagine -- Vaughn Bennett being told that a meeting with Ivy City residents is a closed meeting by Corey.  Now Corey would have been hot under the collar if this was done to him when he was a Commissioner.  How soon they forget when they start smelling themselves and smelling others too closely -- the vision gets blocked.
 
So, let's not talk about Sharon Ambrose when ours hangs us out like you dry like Salt Fish!!  And even if Grosso was smoking Weed Indoors, who cares.  You should go knock on his door, drop off a copy of Michael's financial records and take a whiff to smell if he is. That's how you do it -- bear gifts. 
 
As to Michael's finances, it is expected that Grosso would stress him out about that  -- just like Fox 5 was bringing back discussions about President Obama from 2007 and his former Pastor the morning of the Debate to spark the racist discussion again.  It wouldn't surprise me if President Obama just chose to be congenial which explain that gritty grin on his face and was told to be seen as not being agressive by blowing "Romster" out of the water with all his Crap.  There is no way that President Obama didn't know the answers to that 90 billion being loans and to who as well as Romney's 20/20 hindsight.
 
Here is the Spade that you need to pay attention to before it hits you in the back of the head - Grosso is running on the fact that White folks will vote for him and all the other Blacks votes will be split.  That's the Spade that you have to be concerned with as Grosso's voters aren't the least concerned about his conviction 20 years ago nor is any sane human being nor if he is smoking Weed in his house right now.  We just do what we can to help Michael because he asked us to.
 
Then what you need to pay attention to is that Dems Appointment and the next special election. 
 
Rob Ramson.
 

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Debbie Smith-Steiner <DLSmith112@msn.com> wrote:
 

Hey Rob, that is not the point.  

 Grosso wants to hold himself out as a Martyr and you have an arrest record for possession of weed. how many of our Afro American males are locked down because the po po caught them with weed? How many of us are so fortunate to have Sharon Ambrose hire a black person with an arrest record? 

Whether or not CM Brown is/has smoked weed, he does not have a criminal record. Grosso for that fact, could still be smoking weed behind closed doors.

Further, Grosso wants to talk about CM Brown's personal finance issues; at least or current CM does not have a drug conviction.  Call a spade a spade


Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

       Booker T. Washington

On Oct 5, 2012, at 7:18 PM, Rob <indianrob@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Hello Debbie,
 
This is the same type of issue that we complain about regarding our returning citizens with more recent actual crimes.  If it was trafficing that would have made a difference and even so, this is weed and it was almost 20 years ago.  I would be willing to bet that Michael has smoked weed before. 
 
And AJ - a flare gun!! Really. 
 
Embarassing for Mike Debonis and Tim Craig to put their signature on this. 
 
By the way, legalizing weed and taxing it would make more sense than a 5 cent bag tax because most the larger investors of the MM live out of state and that's where their money will be taxed. 
 
Rob Ramson.

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Debbie Smith-Steiner <DLSmith112@msn.com> wrote:
 



Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

       Booker T. Washington



Posted at 04:17 PM ET, 10/03/2012 TheWashingtonPost

D.C. Council challengers have had police encounters


Grosso, right, says 1993 marijuana arrest was a "turning point" in his life. (Macy L. Freeman - The Washington Post) As at-large D.C. Council candidates step up their attacks on incumbent Michael A. Brown, his supporters are raising questions about his leading opponents' police encounters.
Candidate David Grosso, Brown's best-financed opponent, was arrested in May 1993 in Okaloosa County, Fla., on a misdemeanor marijuana charge, according to public records.
"It's absolutely true," Grosso, 42, acknowledged Wednesday. He said he was caught with less than two grams of marijuana while on a camping trip when he was 22.
Grosso said he pleaded no contest and paid a fine.
The arrest, Grosso said, was a "real turning point" in his life. Before then, he said, he'd been working in D.C. bars and had no plans to go to college. But around the time of his arrest, he met his future wife, who persuaded him to go back to school.
Grosso went on to graduate from Georgetown University law school and work as a top aide to D.C. Council member Sharon Ambrose (D-Ward 6). He later worked in government affairs for CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield.
Grosso said he disclosed the arrest on his law school and bar applications and has not used marijuana since that period. "Tell them to keep looking," he said. "They're not going to find anything in the 20 years since then."
Incidentally, Grosso said he supports the city's medical marijuana efforts. Asked whether he would consider legalizing marijuana, Grosso said "certainly all these types of things need to be considered on a regular basis."
"I would consider it, of course," he said, "but I would also not consider legalizing it at the same time."
A.J. Cooper, another Brown opponent, was arrested early on New Year's Day 2008 and charged with carrying a dangerous weapon, a felony.
The "dangerous weapon," records show, was a flare gun. The charge was dropped two weeks later.
The charging document states that officers were near the 4800 block of Georgia Avenue NW investigating a fireworks complaint when they heard "a loud boom."
Police then discovered Cooper, who is now policy director for the D.C. Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy, in a nearby alley. A short distance away, officers discovered a "camouflage flare gun/gas launcher" and a backpack with Cooper's name on it containing a live 37-millimeter round as well as two spent rounds, records show.
In an interview Wednesday, Cooper said he was at his Petworth home on New Year's Eve when he heard some neighbors shooting off fireworks. Noting that many kinds of fireworks are legal in the District, Cooper said he went outside to watch.
But when police arrived, he said, the neighbors ran and dropped the fireworks launcher.
"They all ran, but I didn't see any point of running because I didn't do anything, so I stayed," said Cooper, 31, the nephew of former board of education chairwoman and philanthropist Peggy Cooper Cafritz. "So I stayed, and I got arrested."
Cooper said he spent an hour in police custody and was told within days that the charge was being dropped. "It turned out the flare gun wasn't even illegal," Cooper said. "And the fact it wasn't even mine, they dropped all the charges."
Both Grosso and Cooper have pressed Brown on his personal and campaign issues, which include unpaid taxes, unpaid rent and the alleged theft of more than $100,000 from his current campaign. In 1997, at age 32, Brown pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge that he made $4,000 in illegal campaign contributions to the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D).
This week, in a series of tweets, Brown said the media "should vet everyone equally."
"Let's not have a double-standard," he said.
This post has been updated since it was first published
 
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