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Jesse Diaz
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12/15/05 Brain-Dead
really shows her stuff.
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As I listened to Wednesday's council hearing
(12/14/05) on Verified
Response, it made me nervous to be on the same side as Maxine Thornton-Reese.
After hearing hundreds of residents speaking against Verified Response over the
past several months, only 5
council members (Blaydes, Chaney, Natinsky, Rasansky and Thornton-Reese) voted
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Since
2 of the nay votes
against the compromise were Mitch Rasansky and Ron Natinsky (both Jews), it was a double shocker to later learn that T-Reese had made
a racist/anti-Semite remark to Mitch Rasansky before the vote. |
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12/15/05 Avi
Adelman:
Can anyone tell me
why it's acceptable behavior for members of Dallas' Black
community to play the (Jewish) race card??
What political consultant came up
with that suicidal strategy???
The statements made by Thornton-Reese
(yes, I do believe Rasansky's quotes of her comments) are disgusting to say
the least, sitting right down there with Al
Lipscomb's comparison of Mayor Miller to Hitler. |
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The Verified Response vote was really a compromise over the original plan.
Residential alarms will still get police response. Business security
alarms will still get police response FOR LATE NIGHT alarms. For most
businesses, it's a reasonable compromise because many false alarms are caused by
employee errors during work days. It still concerns me because some small
businesses are very vulnerable to day-time burglaries and robberies.
Verified Response should have been voted down in total, but the compromise is
better than completely out-sourcing our police. |
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12/15/05 David
Stokes:
Wow! Or should I say, Oye Vey
Gevault!
If the shoe was on the other
foot, we would be up to rumps in protestors
demanding the resignation of an
insensitive politician and/or government grants to smooth community
feelings.
The proof the Jews do not run Dallas
(one could argue Dallas does not run so much as
limp painfully in circles) is that 'Brain Dead'
will not only retain her position but will soon be honored
for her cultural sensitivity.
Unfortunately, just saying 'Brain
Dead'
probably does not do enough to uniquely identify just one of the folks
at the horseshoe desk at City Council Meetings. |
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If the DPA had come out against Verified Response, it
would have failed. Almost everyone who voted for it (Sandra Dee Griffith, Flip Flop Oakley and "I'm
only a dentist" Garcia) are considering a mayoral
race against the Mayor. None of them wanted the DPA to campaign against
them. Got news for them -- like Ray Hunt (that Billionaire Son of
Bigamist), the DPA will only pick one. |
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12/16/05 Dwaine
Caraway:
Just a thought to you Downtown guys who funded the campaign for
Maxine Thornton-Reese.
You get what you pay for. You guys bought Maxine, and look
what you got. |
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But back to Brain-Dead's temper tantrum.
T-Reese pulled Councilman Rasansky away from everyone else to "talk" to him.
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Council conversation gets heated;
Rasansky says comments
critical of Jews; Thornton-Reese clarifies remarks
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
by
EMILY RAMSHAW / The Dallas Morning News
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Dallas City Council member Mitchell
Rasansky says colleague Maxine Thornton-Reese made insensitive comments
about Jews during an off-the-floor discussion at Wednesday's meeting.
Mr. Rasansky, who is Jewish, said Dr.
Thornton-Reese told him, "You Jews are controlling
City Hall" and wouldn't let go of his arm during a heated encounter
while their colleagues debated a controversial burglary-alarm policy.
Dr.
Thornton-Reese, who is black, said she doesn't think she said that.
She said she was simply trying to have a discussion about what role race and
religion play at City Hall. She said Mr. Rasansky misunderstood her and fled
the room before she could finish the conversation.
"I was telling him, Jews gravitate to Jews,
the same way African-Americans gravitate to African-Americans," she said.
"Sometimes we let race and other things influence our votes. He refused to
discuss with me anything about religion."
Mr. Rasansky, responding to questions
after a reporter overheard Dr. Thornton-Reese say the word "Jewish" after
the verified-response vote, called the comments "extremely inappropriate."
... The back-room conversation came in the
midst of the council's debate on "verified response" for commercial
businesses ?
... council member Ron Natinsky, who also is
Jewish, moved to delay the vote until next month. Mr. Rasansky seconded the
motion.
Dr. Thornton-Reese, a strong opponent
of verified response, became visibly upset when she heard this motion and
second. She made a substitute motion to defeat it immediately.
... Mr. Rasansky said, Dr.
Thornton-Reese pulled him aside. He said she appeared to be angry that he
supported Mr. Natinsky's motion and that she expressed frustration because
she thinks Jewish City Council members often vote together. Mayor Laura
Miller, who is also Jewish, supported verified response.
"She said, 'You
Jews have to stop,' " Mr. Rasansky said, demonstrating how Dr.
Thornton-Reese grabbed his arm.
Dr. Thornton-Reese, who was angry and
agitated when she spoke to The News in the same back room where she and Mr.
Rasansky exchanged words Wednesday afternoon,
... "I was trying to tell him that a lot of times,
people misinterpret what we do because they put labels on us," she said.
... "He was very upset about it ? I'm surprised he
was as calm as he was during the rest of the meeting," Mr. Natinsky said.
... For the rest of the debate, Dr. Thornton-Reese
continued to "snap at him across the horseshoe," Ms. Miller said.
... In the end, verified response passed on a 8-5
vote, with Mr. Rasansky, Mr. Natinsky and Dr. Thornton-Reese on the same
side ? voting no. |
There are 4 African-Americans
on the council, and they almost always vote the same. There are 3 Jews on
the council, and they seldom vote the same. Frequently, Rasansky and
Miller are the only NO votes - hardly a power bloc. Wednesday, Miller
voted for the Verified Response compromise and Ron Natinsky and Rasansky voted
NO with Leo Chaney and T-Reese (the only voting Black council members).
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some woman holding on to your arm while she insults you and expects you to agree
with her racist statements? What would we be saying if Councilman Rasansky
had grabbed her arm and said "You Blacks vote together too much. You
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12/15/05 Rad Field:
Having read the write-up
in the DMN on the 15th, I think Councilwoman
Reese's tantrum against Councilman
Rasansky would be solid grounds for an "Ethics" violation complaint.
It is much
more severe than the squabble once conducted over
the podium placement in the flag room.
There have been US
Senators removed from their positions over
less violent confrontations, particularly since
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It happened to poor Mitch Rasansky, and it
really shook him up. He went back into chambers and told Mayor Miller and
Ron Natinsky what had occurred.
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If we knew T-Reese has some medical condition, we could assume
she was just off her meds. Since Councilman Fantroy and the FBI's Favorite
Target Don Hill had both recused themselves from the Verified Response debate
and vote for "conflict of interest" reasons, it's more likely T-Reese lost
it because they weren't there to reign her in.
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12/16/05 James
Northrup:
If Jews are running City Hall,
we need to get some new ones. Like Michael Bloomberg and Elliott Spitzer.
If Thornton
Expressway said to them what she said to Rasansky,
she'd have her properties condemned and her re-election over-turned.
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There's been more than one time T-Reese has gone off on some tangent and
looked and sounded more stupid than normal. |
We can never forget that hearing in the Fall of 2004 where she was carrying a
case for James Fantroy because he had a "conflict of interest". When
you have a "conflict of interest", it doesn't mean you just don't vote on the
case. It means you don't talk to staff, you don't talk to Plan
Commissioners and you don't talk to other council members -- at no time.
You ask a council member to carry the case due to your "conflict of interest".
You don't even tell them your preference for its outcome. That's the rule.
Every new council member and new board or commission member has to sit through a
Madeline Johnson (former City Attorney) and Ron Kirk/Con Jerk (former Mayor)
video explaining "conflict of interest" and other rules of your office.
It's very boring, but very clear. If that information is too hard for
someone to understand, they should not be on the council or any other city
board.
| During the discussion of that Fantroy "conflict of interest" case, someone asked
to take the case under advisement. T-Reese said she had talked with
Fantroy, and HE WANTED IT approved. Several other council members admitted
talking with Fantroy about it, as well. See
Crooks in Low Places. |
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12/16/05 Bob
Hosea
Can this
city get any more screwed up? At what point does intelligence kick in?
Never mind. I already know; NEVER.
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I am absolutely convinced the
September, 2004 council meeting was the catalyst for the FBI investigation.
It was so blatant.
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Council members clash after Jewish remarks
10:27 PM CST on Wednesday, December 14, 2005
By CHRIS HEINBAUGH / WFAA-TV |
Controversy was amuck Wednesday after
a Dallas City Council member said one of his colleagues made insensitive
remarks about Jewish people during a closed door discussion.
... Council member Maxine Reese pulled Rasansky
into a meeting room behind council chambers where
she
reportedly told Rasansky that the Jewish council members controlled City
Hall.
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Rasansky abruptly walked out and Reese later acknowledged raising an issue
about Jews.
"...When I mentioned the word Jew, he said
he was not going to discuss any religion and walked out," she said.
However, she denied that she said
Jewish people were controlling City Hall.
... "I have no reason to discuss anything that I
was talking to someone personally about," Reese said. "I don't have anything
against Jews. I don't have anything against blacks. I don't have anything
against white, Mexicans, anything because this is a very diverse city."
Reese said the press was merely
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And you wonder why
DallasArena.com gave her the nickname "Brain-Dead"? I don't know which is
worse that such a noodle is on the city council or that she actually taught
children.
It's not like this is the first time she's demonstrated her racism. See
That Race Card
and Brain-Dead Should
Resign from August, 2004.
Even the Dallas Managed News
editorialized against the public racist statements from T-Reese.
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I am glad she played her hand again.
Brain-Dead certainly dispelled the myth that
she's a sweetie at heart. She showed us what's in her heart with
her tirade Wednesday. Earth to Sherry Jacobson (DMN's columnist who's on a
tear against Mayor Miller), T-Reese's behavior Wednesday was tirade.
T-Reese's behavior at council meetings is frequently a tirade. Mayor
Miller standing
up to calmly itemize her opposition to giving a Billionaire Son of a Bigamist
$6.3 million in tax abatements was not a tirade. |
None of this would have seen the light of day had WFAA's Chris Heinbaugh not
hear T-Reese mention "Jewish". Good reporting by Heinbaugh and
Emily Ramshaw. We need to know this stuff.
Some African-American leaders hold on to their power by continually playing the
race card. It's an old act that needs to be retired. When all
the stuff was moving around at Plan Commission related to D'Angelo Lee, it was
disappointing to see few Black community leades publicly criticize Lee or Don
Hill. I know several African-American community leaders who were appalled,
but afraid of the retaliation that would come back on them. Thank God,
Betty Culbreath's health has improved and she's able to step back in the fray.
Mayor Miller has appointed Ms. Culbreath to the Plan Commission and made her
chair. She's already whipping the place back into shape.
Incidentally, Councilman Steve Salazar has appointed me to the Board of
Adjustment. I will not be writing about BOA matters, so you will have to
get that info elsewhere.
In
light of T-Reese's comments Wednesday, how do you think she would have acted had
D'Angelo Lee been
a Rasansky appointee with different pigmentation? |
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12/16/05 Stan
Aten:
I listened to the city council meeting on Wed. Dec. 14th.
Coucilwoman Reese was totally out of control. She is definitely a very
angry woman. People like her, people who are paranoid or feel that the
world is out to get them, need help. I suggest
she seek professional help for anger management.
You would think an old woman like her
would understand how the world works.
As for a Jewish conspiracy at city hall, the
primary connection between our Mayor and
Councilman Rasansky is concern for hard working
taxpayers of Dalllas vs money sucking leeches who are always seeking a
handout from the city of Dallas.
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It's always been a puzzlement about the hostility many Black leaders openly
espouse against Jews. No community has been more supportive of the Black
civil rights movement. Whatever the reason, there is no denying the
hostility. I'm convinced that much of the South Dallas opposition to Mayor
Miller is based on her being Jewish.
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T-Reese should be sanctioned. She ought to resign. If it were
reversed, she would be calling -- no, screaming for Mitch Rasansky's resignation.
She won't even apologize and Rufus Shaw, Jr. is compounding the bigotry with
his excuses for Brain-Dead's abominable behavior. |
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