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08/04/05 Is this all a
bad dream?
In case you missed the most unimaginable story
you could ever expect to read in the
Dallas Managed News,
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City official plans hunger strike for wife;
Agency cites violations in
deportation case
Tuesday, August 2, 2005 By GRETEL C.
KOVACH / The Dallas Morning News |
It was an unlikely romance: A
millionaire real estate developer falls madly in love with a Chinese
masseuse on the verge of being deported.
Ralph Isenberg risked everything for her. His
marriage of 30 years disintegrated. His best friend stopped talking to him.
His adult son and daughter shunned him.
... Mr. Isenberg, a member of Dallas' City Plan
Commission, said he is planning to begin a hunger strike this week after
trying everything to keep his new wife in the country.
Since they met about three years ago,
he persuaded high-placed government and business leaders ? including U.S.
Reps. Pete Sessions and Eddie Bernice Johnson
and the entire Dallas City Council ? to write
letters of support for her residency application.
But Monday, immigration officials
said they would not allow Yanhong Hu, who now goes by Nicole Isenberg, to
stay in the country past Aug. 15. ...
"Three-fourths of my family perished in Nazi Germany. ... I
never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would
have to fight to keep my family together on U.S.
soil," Mr. Isenberg said, choking back tears.
... Immigration officials said they have
been more than generous with Mrs. Isenberg, who pleaded no contest to a
2001 prostitution charge in Dallas,
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A statement from the Isenbergs sent to government and
business leaders around the country says the misdemeanor prostitution
charge, which preceded their 2004 marriage, was unfounded.
... Mr. Sessions
had lobbied for a six-month delay in her departure, citing concern for the
health of the baby.
... If Mrs. Isenberg leaves, there is no guarantee
she can return, and she faces a five-year ban for being deported in
absentia.
... Mr. Isenberg, 53. "Do I stay with my children
or do I stay with my wife?"
Mrs. Isenberg, 40, originally came to
the U.S. in 1999 on a business visa. Chinese authorities had forced her to
use an IUD that was making her sick, she said.
... Mrs. Isenberg had an advanced engineering
degree but arrived in this country unable to speak English.
... She didn't understand that a massage license
in California was no good in Texas and was led by
desperation and naivet?to a job in a Dallas bathhouse, the Isenbergs
said.
... They were both married, unhappily, when they
met, Mr. Isenberg said. He was deeply lonely and, by his own account, had
spent about a million dollars on the company of women.
So while some may say that Mr. Isenberg rescued his future wife from the
unsavory life of a bathhouse worker, it is Mrs.
Isenberg who really rescued him, he said.
... "To be forced from this country because I have
a Chinese wife, and the government made a clerical error, it's not
conceivable. It's not American," Mr. Isenberg said. ...
"If I have to die for my family, OK. I've got millions in life
insurance, millions in assets. They'd be taken care of." |
I e-mailed the reporter,
GRETEL C. KOVACH,
and asked since when
is a sordid tale about a horn dog hooking up with a hooker a news story. She said it
was newsworthy because Isenberg is a city official, and it's "a tragic love
story". I swear that's what she said! Kovach actually said it's a tragic love story.
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As much as a creep like Isenberg hooking up with a hooker is predictable, I am
still shocked that Dudley Do Right Congressman Pete Sessions would intercede in
this sordid mess. Not that I have a high opinion of Pete Sessions, but
this is really bottom feeding stuff. |
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8/04/05 James
Northrup:
Wacky City Plan Commissioner dumps his wife and kids,
becomes admittedly Dallas's Number "John", then fathers a child by an
illegal alien Chinese "hostess" for whom
he tries to use his "influence" to jump the line
to get legal residency status.
Dallas Morning News writes it up as a
"romantic interest" story.
Add this dope to the rogues gallery
of local political embarrassments. |
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Had Pete Sessions not used his influence in the Republican Party, we would have
Roxan Staff on the city council rather than the smarmy Gary Griffith.
Wonder how all his Eagle Forum groupies feel about Sessions stepping up to the
plate to keep a prostitute from being deported?
With all the scandal coming out of City Hall and the DISD since June, you would
think there would not be a lot more to surprise us. This Isenberg story
has completely changed the topic of conversation around town. What was he
thinking making all this stuff public?
On a blog site (www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1455546/posts#comment),
a woman claiming to be Isenberg's grown daughter says:
I am this man's
adult daughter. (BTW,
there are two daughters and no sons). I am
publicly humiliated by all of this. I feel
for Nicole, and I don't think that she is a a real
threat to society, but my dad is a complete jerk for bringing all of us into
this.
He made some complete exaggerations
and distorted facts: Nicole doesn't hold
advanced degrees -- she's a mechanic!
He is keeping his newborn here as
leverage to alter Nicole's immigration status. This
really strikes me on a personal level:
He would "die" for his family.
What am I? Uggh!
I have never felt so abandoned and
disregarded. I really wish people would see how manipulative he is. . . |
Northwest Dallas (and other areas) is overwhelmed with massage parlors.
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Are there that many perverts in Dallas?,
I asked "Who are the horn
dogs who keep Dallas sex spas in business?"
Well, now we know at least one creep who admits to having spent millions on
women (other than his wife). I don't think he meant wining and dining them
on the remote chance he might get lucky.
It's outrageous that Isenberg has served on the Park Board, the Board
of Adjustment and now the Plan Commission, all the while doing his best to keep
a bunch of whorehouses in business and ruin the part of town where I live in the
process. He's the same sanctimonious jerk who called for D'Angelo Lee
to be removed from the Plan Commission because it reflected badly on the rest of
the commissioners having him there. Wonder who the rest of the P&Z would
chose to remove, a sleaze ball like Lee or a pervert like Isenberg?
Here's an idea! Why don't Mayor Miller and Mayor Pro Tem Hill do a deal:
I'll remove my scumbag from the Plan Commission, if you will remove your scumbag
from the Plan Commission?
For the life of me, I don't know which is worse: Lee or Isenberg!
I keep coming back to the question of "What was Isenberg thinking by making this
story public?" Did he really expect for his publicity stunt to make a
difference? He's clearly a very disturbed man if he expected to stir up
any support by advising us that he's married to a convicted prostitute that he
met on one of his frequent visits to massage parlors.
Ms. Kovach calls Mrs.
Isenberg a "Chinese
masseuse".
Give me a break!
It's a good thing the Isenberg's hooked up when they did because it's about to
get a lot harder for an illegal immigrant who doesn't speak English to be able
to make ends meet as a massage parlor prostitute. Ms. Kovach says the
current Mrs. Isenberg entered the country legally on a business visa, so she's
not an illegal immigrant. I say when she stayed past her visa limit, she
became an illegal immigrant.
Thanks to State Representatives Rafael Anchia, Jim Jackson and Will Hartnett,
the massage parlor/whore houses in Texas can only employ a licensed masseuse who
must keep her clothes on while she works on her customers. To make
matters even worse for "desperate" women like the lovely Mrs. Isenberg, you
can't apply for a license to be a masseuse unless you are a U.S. citizen or a
LEGAL resident alien.
There have already been a couple of massage parlors close down in anticipation
of the new laws. The police are prepared to start enforcing the
massage parlor law on September 1. They know better than most the negative
impact of massage parlors wherever they open up.
Between all the massage parlors and rogue bars and billiard halls, it's hard to
tell things are any better than when the sex clubs were operating on Northwest
Highway.
It's not like we are getting any help from the authorities because the
Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission
is certainly not on our side. Much of Northwest Dallas is dry,
particularly around Forest Lane East of Stemmons. That doesn't mean you
can't get an adult beverage almost anyplace you want. Most restaurants
serve alcohol if you have a "Unicard". That's OK because these are
restaurants that primarily serve food. They are not bars with a
microwave.
Lately, we are getting lots of pool halls. Just like the huckster says in
THE MUSIC MAN, "pool starts with a P and that rhymes with T and that stands for
trouble, right here in River City". A few weeks ago, we learned about a
club on Forest Lane IN A DRY AREA that is applying for a late night permit.
The run around we got was really spooky.
Basically, you have to file a petition of protest, but they have no form to use.
You're required to list the applicant's name, but the TABC will not furnish the name.
A Lieutenant in the Dallas TABC office advised me "After they get their late
night permit, you guys will have to watch them to make sure they are doing what
they are supposed to do." That's what she said. When I told her
it was not my job as a citizen to be a law enforcer, that it was her job -- she
said "No, it isn't." Apparently, their only responsibility is to issue as
many liquor permits in Dallas as possible regardless of the saturation of
Northwest Dallas.
Think that's frightening? Then, you need to read Jim Schutze's story
Payback.
Intimidation coming from City
Hall.
I wish it was all just a bad dream.
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Elected and appointed city
officials using their influence to assist those who had or promised to
assist them; |
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Elected
officials and city employees using police officers to punish Dallas
businessmen who complained in Austin about such abuse; |
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A
DISD board member and high paid employee taking large perks from a DISD
vendor; |
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A Plan Commissioner who is
threatening a hunger strike if the INS deports a convicted prostitute who
entered the country illegally. |
Unfortunately, we aren't having
nightmares in Dallas, we are living them. It's corrupt, sleazy and just
plain embarrassing.
sb
More, from
Dallas Managed News:
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City official plans hunger strike for wife;
Agency cites violations in
deportation case
Tuesday, August 2, 2005 By GRETEL C.
KOVACH / The Dallas Morning News |
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Isenberg: reprehensible
After reading
about Ralph Isenberg's situation, I have come to the sad realization that
one must be of questionable character to gain a seat on the Dallas Plan
Commission. Mr. Isenberg left his wife and children for a prostitute
and then gets selected to serve the citizens of Dallas. This is madness!
If Mrs. Isenberg gains permanent
residency because of her one baby, I will protest at the INS with at least
1,000 Hispanic immigrants I know who have at least three babies born in the
U.S. Also, will Rep. Sessions write a letter for each of these Hispanic
families?
Jose Munoz, Dallas
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Isenberg: the INS speaks
The article did not make clear that Mrs. Isenberg had previously
agreed to voluntarily leave the United States.
During her removal proceedings,
the government had agreed (and later granted multiple extensions of time) to
permit Mrs. Isenberg to depart the United States and immigrate from abroad,
instead of removing her.
Such removal would have made it more
difficult for her to immigrate since she would have been removed for having
engaged in prostitution and fraud. For the Isenbergs to claim that the
government is mistreating her by requiring her to comply with an agreement
that benefited her is to distort the truth.
Paul B. Hunker III, chief counsel,
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Dallas |
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