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D Minor
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07/25/05
African-American Community Tyrants are an incestuous group.
During the last council election, it seemed like the
daily question was how can the African-American candidates be the best the city
has to offer, whether incumbent or challenger. As a pragmatic political
groupie, I would try to explain why Candidate X was better than Candidate Z, even
if both were flawed. It was a tough sell, even to myself.
Part of the reason it was and is hard to believe that there aren't better
minority candidates and potential officeholders out there is simply because
those of us who are pigmently challenged know and work with Dallas
African-Americans who are nothing like those who make the headlines and who seem to have just enough following to
keep to their power. We know
personally that Al Lipscomb, Maxine Thornton-Reese, Leo Chaney, Don Hill, Ron
Price or D'Angelo Lee are not typical of Dallas African-Americans. The
good people we know personally are too busy making a living to run for office, and/or don't want
to wallow in the slime that seems to be necessary to make it to the inner circle
of African-American "community" leadership.
Throughout the 60's, 70's, 80's and early 90's, Al Lipscomb's job as an ODB
toady was to keep a lid on any opportunities for true community leaders to
emerge from the Dallas African-American community. If there was a chance
that an honest person might develop a following and potentially rock the status
quo (i.e., the ODB's strangle hold on Dallas City Hall), Old Al was right there
to turn the community against the up-and-comer. |
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7/25/05 D
Minor:
Great Job!
You really opened my eyes. This
article answers many questions, full
of knowledge and history of some of the African-American so called
"community leaders."
I'm not looking to seek political
office, but we do need to prepare
young African-Americans for political office in
Dallas and not family members or friends from the gang (BAD CELLS).
It appears that if you are not part
of the gang-transplants or Dallas Natives, in
most cases the doors are closed to you in
politics and various jobs. The GANG (bad cells)
are at DISD, DART,
CITY HALL and who knows where else.
Every elected officer should have a
steering committee in place from their districts with
young people included,
a positive steering committee meeting
just once a month. We certainly can organize
to destroy and kill each other. This must
STOP!
I pray that one day very soon the
African-American Community in Dallas will wake-up and see the light.
We are only holding back ourselves and
our communities.
Dallas has some wonderful and great
African-American elected officers; however, they
are few in numbers.
I must say, John Wiley Price did
not take part with Dr.
Ora Lee Watson and her gang against me. Over the years people change,
and I've seen the other side of Commissioner Price.
It's all good.
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Apparently, Old Al is not the only African-American community tyrant who fears
new blood in the leadership circle. There is an incestuous gang of
African-American "community leaders" who are willing to close ranks to keep out
anyone outside their circle, regardless of that person's talents or knowledge.
See
Drevelyn "D" Minor's report
on what happened to her as a California transplant hired to do a job at the DISD,
only to meet with harassment and sabotage by the wife and a relative of current
bad boy, D'Angelo Lee.
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Political star
tainted by liabilities;
Dallas: Don Hill's
successes slowed by sanctions, FBI inquiry
Saturday, July
23, 2005 by
GROMER JEFFERS JR./The Dallas Morning News |
Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill's professional
and political career has followed two paths ? one sprinkled with success and
the other on the cusp of ruin.
His early legal career was
highlighted by a groundbreaking lawsuit against the city of Dallas.
Later, he would become a popular,
effective politician, with the public persona as a man of integrity who
might one day be mayor.
... Mr. Hill was sanctioned by the Texas Bar
Association in 2004 .... And he owes the IRS at
least $140,000 for failing to pay personal income taxes,
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Most worrisome, he's the biggest name in the FBI's
City Hall corruption investigation, with personal or professional
connections to many of the other targets in the investigation.
... Others who know Mr. Hill, particularly
some of his former legal clients, are not surprised.
... Friends and associates say Mr. Hill doesn't
fit the stereotype of a politician on the take.
... An Austin native and junior high school
classmate of former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, he
moved to Dallas in 1978 to work as a lawyer for the U.S. Department of
Labor. His primary duties were to sue companies that didn't adhere to
affirmative action plans.
He left the Labor Department in 1983
to form a law firm with, among others, Don Hicks,
a fellow graduate of Texas Southern University. Later, he would succeed Mr.
Hicks to the City Council.
... His big legal score came in 1993 when he
settled a lawsuit with the city of Dallas. He had argued that the Dallas
Police Department's promotional exams discriminated against black officers.
... He was Mr. Kirk's floor leader and eventually
became the city's deputy mayor pro tem.
... Because he was able to deliver southern-sector
votes on the council and had strong working relationships with North Dallas
council members, his power sometimes exceeded that of the mayor.
... the State Bar of Texas disciplined Mr. Hill
for taking money from two clients he did not adequately represent,
.... received a four-year, fully probated
suspension. This means he may practice law under close
supervision from a mentor and risks losing his license if he again violates
rules of professional conduct that Texas attorneys must adhere to.
... Mr. Hill has also had problems settling his
tax obligations, which had threatened to derail his political career before
it started.
Between 1984 and 1992, he almost
never paid his taxes on time, according to IRS records.
... Before joining the law office of Burt Barr and
Associates in Dallas in 2003, Mr. Hill owed the IRS more than $117,000 for
failing to pay payroll taxes at his old law firm.
... One of the tax liens filed in May that seeks
$116,898.97 targets Mr. Hill and his wife, Vivian. The other one, which
demands $23,287.27, names only Mr. Hill.
... "We don't know if there's any kind of major
criminal activities," said Rufus Shaw Jr., a political analyst and columnist
for the Elite News, a newspaper aimed at Dallas' black churches. "What we do
know is that he's now unelectable. Those fiscal problems would have made it
extremely difficult for him. Can you imagine having a mayor who doesn't even
own his own car?"
Mr. Hill still drives a luxury car
given to him by Sheila Farrington, a political consultant he has described
as a friend who also has been targeted by the FBI.
... Ms. Farrington has financial ties to many of
the names in the FBI probe,
... The FBI is also investigating D'Angelo Lee,
who is Mr. Hill's friend and appointee to the City Plan Commission ? a board
with great power over developers.
... "I personally don't think anything is going to
come of this investigation," Dallas lawyer Craig Watkins said. "He's at the
wrong place at the wrong time."
But no matter what the result of the
investigation, it's unlikely Mr. Hill will be able to weather politically
the bad publicity generated by the probe. ... |
With his poor performance as a
lawyer and IRS problems, Hill may have been an easy target for the likes of
D'Angelo Lee. Hill must have been desperate. More than one council
member has had to leave public office when personal financial problems or
business demands overshadowed the joy of civic service. No one knew better
than Councilman Hill the state of his personal finances. He had a duty to
his family and law partners to devote all of his energies to resolving his
personal finances.
I don't believe no one else knew about Hill's financial problems.
I find it harder to believe that our local media did not pick up on the fact
that our Deputy Mayor Pro Tem (in 2004) had been censored by his peers and could
only practice law
under close supervision from a
mentor and risks losing his license if he again violates rules of professional
conduct.
That's pretty heavy, and it is public record. How come no one at
The Dallas Managed News
reported this information?
You know why, don't you? The ODB liked Don Hill and hoped to keep all his
personal and financial problems under the radar screen, just liked they covered
for Al Lipscomb all those years.
I like Don Hill, too, and I wish none of this were true. Since the
tax problems and State Bar problems are real, Don Hill should resign when the
council reconvenes.
There's no way only a couple of people on the Plan Commission had misgivings
about D'Angelo Lee. I guarantee you there were only a couple of people on the
P&Z who did not have misgivings about the guy. Now, that we know about his
connection to the Pecan something project and that he voted on it, Lee should be
removed from the P&Z, whether Hill asks for his resignation or not.
The City Council owes it to the citizens of Dallas to get Lee off the P&Z
immediately. Any unsuccessful proponent or opponent of any case before the
P&Z should be suing to have their case reheard if Lee voted on their case,
whether for or against. |
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07/26/05 MH:
Community tyrants and incestuous groups exist throughout Dallas,
particularly in District 14.
Princess Velveeta had Mad Maxine make
a deal with Joe Thug to make sure neighborhoods
like Oak Lawn were diluted in political power to keep
Velveeta's tyranny going.
There was no way Ingle or Marcum could
overcome that incestuous group and their web of lies and gossip. Our
last election shows we will be stuck for a long time with the Lordi
Palmer - McDaniel
- Velveeta monarchy and their little
tyrants like Neil Emmons.
We can only imagine what positive changes
could have existed at City Hall
with new blood from District 14. |
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How did D'Angelo Lee and this Sheila Farrington mystery woman get so
"connected"? The answer is obvious. They are part of the gang of
African-American "community" leaders who aid each other while fighting to the
death to eliminate any honest person from a leadership role in Dallas.
D Minor brings up an interesting side story. Lee's wife and another
relative who work for the DISD, both drive $50-60 K+ luxury cars. Wonder
who's name is on the title of those cars?
How do all these Lee family members get these high paying or high profile jobs
and positions?
There's another connection with all this, that D Minor's story caused me to
remember. Ora Lee Watson and County Commissioner John Wiley Price adopted
a son together.
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Mr. Mellow;
John Wiley Price, the man who once
toted a bullhorn in protests outside Mayor Ron Kirk's home, learns that it
helps to have friends in high places
By Miriam Rozen
Published: Thursday, June 18, 1998 |
... His
attitude seems less harsh toward his younger son, three-year-old John
Nicholas Watson Price. Price and his close friend,
DISD administrator Ora Lee Watson, became the boy's foster parents,
as they'd done with a number of other needy children. But this time, Price
says, he was moved to adopt. He sent out adoption notices to friends and
associates and came home to tell his mother, who keeps a picture of the
smiling pre-schooler at her house, "This one I'm going to adopt."
The precise terms of that adoption
have become an issue in Price's federal bankruptcy
case. Price filed for protection under Chapter 7 of the federal bankruptcy
code in late 1996, ... |
Isn't that interesting?
One more mafia connection? A high profile DISD administrator who destroyed
an outsider's career at the DISD is also sharing an adopted son with another
insider in the Dallas African-American "community" leadership. This same
Ora Lee Watson has favored and promoted D'Angelo Lee's relative Lorinne
Green-Lee.
Wonder who has the title to her car?
There really is something so deep and evil about the incestuous relationships
between high powered African-Americans in the DISD, at City Hall and the
Commissioners Court. They are all getting older, but they are not
mentoring young future leaders to replace them. Instead, they are united
and organized with shutting out new blood as important as feathering their own
nests
It's nothing new, but it's certainly time to make changes.
At first news of the FBI investigation and raids, I was very sorry for Don Hill
and didn't want it to be true. Now, I'm beginning to get really mad at
this talented man who has wasted all of his past successes.
There's obviously something wrong when so many of this gang have bankruptcy
issues, tax problems and conflicts of interest. We need to have young men
and women in the African-American community step out and retire these tainted
and questionable people.
Nothing good ever comes from incest.
sb
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