Mayor 4 Life not going down quietly; ready to give 2010 State of Ward 8 Address

2010 State of the Ward Address

 

For any who doubt Marion Barry’s resilience; stop now. The Wash Syndicate knows the lay of the land and there is no doubt that if the Mayor 4 Life maintains his health he will be re-elected in the fall of 2012. That is how it is, like it or not. This is the SOUTSHIDE. Good Hope Road SE is not Park Road NW, folks. Courtland Malloy, in today’s column, holds for the generational and parasitic underclass that will support Marion B regardless. Choice excerpts below….    

If Barry did take a kickback from his girlfriend, they say, it didn’t result in somebody’s death. So why should he face censure when those who stole the AIDS money got away clean?    

In a ward where he won the last election by a 77 percent landslide — with little more than 4,000 votes at that — support from the 15,000-member-strong Temple of Praise would all but ensure his political survival.    

As Barry sees it, censure him now and he’ll just pay you back at the polls.    

Marion B is a ridah. A throwback to the era of Terrance Johnson, Bennie Lawson, Wayne Perry, and others who turned the city’s, at times prudish and sheltered, middle class on its head. Marion Barry ain’t going nowhere today or tomorrow, whether you like it or not.    

Although the Syndicate does not support Barry, the Syndicate recognizes real. Until somebody, or a group of individuals, decides to MOB up and do something at the ballot about Marion B he is here. The sound of revolution is feet on the ground. Marion Barry knows this and so does the Syndicate.    

Meanwhile, YOU are invited to the Mayor 4 Life and Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry’s 2010 State of the Ward Address tomorrow, Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 6:30pm at Matthews Memorial Church 2616 MLK Avenue SE.    

Please call (202) 698-1666 for more information, which the Syndicate did last Friday and was asked to bring people with me to the first come, first seated event.    

It isn’t the 4th of July, but there could be some fireworks.  

Make sure to check out Examiner’s Jonetta Rose Barras, “The cycle of abuse continues“  

Choice excerpts….  

The peripatetic politician should be kept away — off the council dais, out of the John A. Wilson Building and away from other government facilities. He has demonstrated a propensity to abuse the electorate repeatedly and indiscriminately.  

The sign of an abuser is in the pattern of behavior, domestic violence counselors say. After the perpetrator physically pummels his victim, lobs painful verbal assaults or engages in other harmful acts, he often becomes remorseful, offering apologies accompanied by gifts and promises to reform his despicable ways.  

How many times have residents heard Barry’s mea maxima culpas?  

Didn’t he apologize in 1990? After his crack cocaine arrest he took to the pulpit of Union Temple Baptist Church in Southeast, confessing an addiction to alcohol, prescription drugs and sex. Later, congregants from that church organized a caravan of cars and buses that traveled to the federal prison in Pennsylvania to bring Barry home — as if he were a returning hero.  

In his last term as mayor, when he reportedly relapsed, Union Temple once again came to Barry’s rescue, serving as backdrop for yet another quasi-apology.  

Did Barry offer a please forgive me when he was caught allegedly driving under the influence?  

Wasn’t he somewhat contrite when he violated his probation for failing to file federal and local tax returns for eight straight years? He said the reason he didn’t honor the terms of the agreement that kept him out of jail was that he was distracted by his upcoming kidney transplant operation. I guess he never heard of H&R Block.  

Last week, Barry apologized, again — at Union Temple Church, again. Aren’t the folks there tired of being used?