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07/15/02  Where do Ole Al's victims go for justice?

Rad Fields:  Ok folks---- Who is that in the Yellow Cab?  I think--- yes--- it is-- it's Al.. He is on the loose again.  I thought I saw someone with a "yellow envelope" get into the back seat. . . .   Oh well--- trouble with the Pledge--- trouble with Amarillo.

Lipscomb endorses Mary Poss for Mayor (see article and link below).

Answer me this -- why are African-American women supportive of this man who clearly sees women as *x*x bags?  Do they think he was pushing White hookers in California?  More likely, his hookers were desperate, young Black women.

Appeals court frees Lipscomb  07/13/2002 By VICTORIA LOE HICKS and TODD BENSMAN / The Dallas Morning News

Facts not disputed The appeals panel did not dispute the facts presented at Mr. Lipscomb's trial, which the ruling reiterated in lengthy detail.   At the trial, Yellow Cab Co. owner Floyd Richards testified that he had paid Mr. Lipscomb $1,000 a month for a period of years with the expectation that he would receive favorable votes on matters affecting the cab company.   After the payments began, Justice John M. Duh?Jr. wrote, "Lipscomb energetically used many of the tools at the disposal of a Council member ? his vote, his oversight authority, his agenda-setting power, and his other parliamentary privileges ? to support policies favorable to Yellow Cab, even though these policies conflicted with his previous positions."   After his conviction, Mr. Lipscomb apologized publicly for his conduct, saying that he had erred in not including the Yellow Cab payments on his financial disclosure reports.   He denied, however, that the payments were bribes, a contention he repeated Friday.  . . . Danny Defenbaugh, who recently retired as head of the FBI's Dallas office, said the case against Mr. Lipscomb was solid.   "They're going to have to go back after him, try him again," Mr. Defenbaugh said. "He's guilty as hell. The evidence speaks for itself."

Oh, yes, we are going to take the word of a confessed pimp and drug pusher that a sex club owner gave him money because Caligula Rizos liked Old Al.  That's why John's give hookers money -- because they like the gal (or guy as the case may be) not because they deliver a service.

Speaking of hookers, my near Walnut-Hill neighborhood is once again under siege by whores and their pimps and the Johns who give them money.  They are hanging out at the 7-11 on Monroe at Walnut-Hill where they sell condoms right up at the front of the store!   You probably think there's no connection to these whores and Old Al.  You may even think what he did and what they do are victimless crimes.  You would be wrong on both counts.

When leaders in the African-American community -- like former Mayor Ron Kirk -- head out to Amarillo to tell a jury that Old Al's shenanigans harmed no one, they perpetuate the image of crooked minority politicians who should not be expected to be honest and law abiding.  

Old Al met with Caligula Rizos and a "high ranking police officer" who directed police officers out of the Northwest Substation to "lay off" enforcement in the sex clubs on NW Highway.  

Do you understand what the police should be watching for in the sex clubs?  Dancers are not supposed to have sex with or touch the patrons, not for free or for money.  They can pretend they are having solitary sex on the stage as long as they keep the required coverage and don't touch --- but, of course, they do touch and they do get money for touching.  That's illegal and they get arrested if a police officer witnesses the bad stuff.  That's what Caligula Rizos wanted for his $7,700 bribe to Old Al -- no police officers in the clubs to witness what his dancers were doing to the patrons.  

Prostitution is not a victimless crime -- whether it's pretend sex or otherwise.  The sex clubs on NW Hwy have been extremely detrimental to our area's economy.  We don't just have to deal with the pretend hookers -- we have the real thing on Harry Hines and Walnut Hill and Brockbank.  They pick up the Johns and bring them into our residential neighborhoods and have sex with them in cars they park in front of our homes.  My next door neighbors have 5 children -- from a High School Freshman to a 2 year old.  A few houses down a family has 3 little girls in elementary school.  

Granted, most young children are in bed before the hookers start working, but it's summer.  How would you like for your children or grandchildren or nieces to look out their window and see two strangers having sex in a car at the curb?  If they don't see the act itself, they can't miss what the whore and her John leave behind -- used condoms.  We have to clean up after these low lifes.  They are doing the same thing Old Al sent young, desperate women out to do in California.

We can't get police enforcement to run these people out of our neighborhood.  It could be we don't have enough officers to handle violent crimes, so public lewdness has a lower priority.  Then again, it could be that Terrell Bolton is still the Police Chief.

Does anyone honestly believe that Chief TB was not the "high ranking police officer" who met with Old Al and Caligula Rizos?  It was particularly galling that Bolton called and congratulated Old Al for his overturned conviction.

	Lipscomb expects to get back in the game 07/14/2002 By JEFFREY WEISS / The Dallas Morning News
. . . at the celebration at his Oak Cliff home this weekend. Mr. Lipscomb joked and chatted with reporters. Friends and relatives filled the rooms with laughter. And political allies, including Dallas Police Chief Terrell Bolton and former Dallas City Council member Diane Ragsdale, kept the phone ringing

Al Lipscomb did not just take bribes from Floyd Richards and Caligula Rizos.  He was getting money all over the place.  Former Mayor Annette Strauss admitted "loaning" him quite a bit of money while they were serving together on the council, which he never repaid or reported.  Schepps Dairy big shots have long been "benefactors" to Old Al.  

I particularly remember a zoning case in the late 80's where an Hispanic lady was asking the council to turn down a paint company's expansion near her home.  It was not in his district, but Old Al was just brutal to her.  Not one person on that council called him down, including Mayor Strauss or the lady's representative Lori Palmer.  The lady was weeping when she left the microphone.  Want to bet he was "assisting" another benefactor? 

The 5th Circuit did not say Al Lipscomb is innocent.   They overturned his conviction on a technicality.  They disregarded the harm this man has done to our city.  

"He's guilty as hell."

There is some good news in all this.  Many young African-American children do not know Al Lipscomb.  Hopefully, they will not use him as a role model.  

Here's a question you will not see asked in the Dallas Managed News:  Will Herb Kelliher and Liz Minyard rush to Old Al's rescue again?  What about Ron Kirk?  

Well, apparently, Liz Minyard and the Schepps Dairy people are vying for Old Al's favors.  What you want to bet Herb Kelliher has the 4th job offer?

Lipscomb says no to politics   With legal fate unclear, ex-council member says he's weighing 4 job offers 07/16/2002  By TODD BENSMAN and TIARA M. ELLIS / The Dallas Morning News

. . . With the 77-year-old still facing a decision by government prosecutors to retry him on corruption charges, his comments stood in contrast to some statements during the weekend in which the former City Council member indicated a return to politics.      "Oh no, no," Mr. Lipscomb said Monday when asked about a return to public office. "I'm going to get me a job."   But he added later: "You can never say never. Of course, I don't know what is in the horizon."   Former U.S. Attorney Marvin Collins said he believed that Mr. Lipscomb's statements about running for office risked irritating U.S. Attorney Jane Boyle, who is considering a number of legal responses to Friday's decision.   Mr. Lipscomb's attorneys said Monday that they did not advise him to change his tune about public office. But they said he would be wise to stop saying he might run again until after the government determines his fate.   "It's probably the wrong thing to say at the wrong time," said attorney Billy Ravkind. "Al's got a lot of good things about him, but how to act in a criminal trial isn't one of them." . . . Mr. Lipscomb said Monday that he was entertaining four job offers ? from Schepps Dairy, the Minyard grocery chain, former City Manager Richard Knight and one he would not reveal.    He said he still plans to be politically active, supporting candidates such as council members Maxine Thornton-Reese and Mary Poss, who has been mentioned as a potential mayoral candidate.

This makes me sick.  I will never step foot in another Minyard's store or buy any product from Schepps Dairy -- that's Oak Farms, etc.  It is so very appropriate that Old Al would put T-Reese and MPT Poss together as the type of people he wants at City Hall.  Surprised he did not mention Senatorial Candidate Ron Kirk?

Speaking of Con Jerk, why is The Dallas Managed News giving him so much coverage and barely mentioning John Cornyn?  Did you know the Dallas Managed News has a reporter assigned to Kirk's campaign but none to Cornyn's campaign?  Our only daily is playing favorites --- imagine that!

Does The Dallas Managed News' one-sided coverage of the Cornyn-Kirk campaign constitute a political contribution?

The Dallas Managed News has gone so far from fair coverage, no one should be surprised they endorsed Brain Dead Thornton-Reese over Larry Duncan.  They want more Al Lipscomb-like folks at City Hall.  Claiming they believe in term limits and rotating new people to the council doesn't wash because The Dallas Managed News endorsed Old Al when he came back to claim his seat from Sandra Crenshaw and she had only held it for one term.  Lipscomb had been there almost 10 years before he was termed out.  

A great injustice has been done to my neighborhood by using a technicality to free the man who took a bribe from a whore runner who had been terrorizing our community, Caligula Rizos.  We have not forgotten Old Al sold us out for $7,700 -- so much harm for so little money.  We have not forgotten Terrell Bolton's involvement in the bribe.

A great injustice has been done to those cab drivers who lost their livelihood when Old Al's assistance to Yellow cab and Floyd Richards forced them out of business.

All those people praising and congratulating Old Al for pulling off another scam should be ashamed.  Where's their outrage over what he did to those poor cab drivers?

One of the best commentaries I have seen to date on this outrage of freeing Old Al on a technicality is in the DMN.  E-mail Ms. Floyd and congratulate her while you can.  With this kind of  honesty, she may not be around there long.

Lipscomb is free, but can't escape the damaging facts 07/16/2002 By JACQUIELYNN FLOYD / The Dallas Morning News

If he can bring himself to do it, Al Lipscomb needs to act humble, stay quiet, keep a low profile. If he can somehow stop himself, he needs to quit hinting that he might resume his political career.   Because the plain fact is: It's not party time. Mr. Lipscomb has not been vindicated. He has not been exonerated. No legal authority anywhere has sided with the farfetched contention that he was the victim of some spiteful government frame-up.

When they know he admitted taking a bribe to allow public lewdness in NW Hwy sex clubs without police enforcement, any woman - Black or White - who is glad to see him out of house confinement should be ashamed.  This man ran a string of hookers in California.  He used young Black women as slaves.  Don't tell me he's a civil rights leader.  What about the civil rights of those women he sold in California?

To let Old Al get away with taking bribes as a council member is an INJUSTICE.

In the end, it doesn't matter whether they try him again or not.  His victims will not get a fair trial in Dallas.  Judge Kendall was right to move that first trial.  Dallas is as corrupt as any city in America, and we have no one to report the truth because our only daily is part of and encouraging the corruptors.  

The Dallas Managed News endorsed Brain Dead Thornton-Reese, but last year they condemned her bigoted campaign against Duncan in 2001.  Remember her slogan -- vote for someone who looks like you!  

I did not want to write this edition.