Republican leaders 3 day annual retreat

Last week our  Republican  leaders of the Republican House of Representatives went to a well-guarded room of a popular golf resort  in Williamsburg, Virginia . For a 3 day annual  retreat. Republicans will work on the debt limit, and talk about raising the debt ceiling. But what was not talked about was who pay for it! The bill for this weekend’s retreat, was picked up by the Congressional Institute  a corporate funded entity. For that our elected officials will spend one evening socializing with lobbyists as part of the retreat. Meanwhile, that’s another back door in the campaign finance system. Must likely of the retreat it turns out, is being underwritten by lobbyists. Then the President’s Inaugural Committee set a goal of raising $50 million. Of that ExxonMobil donate $250,000. ExxonMobil must think they’ll be getting something for their $250,000. Like maybe a  meeting in the West Wing with our President, and a better shot at keeping their tax breaks when Washington gets around to tackling corporate tax reform in the coming year or two. So what does our vote stand for?

Should it the Office of Campaign Finance Investegate if Chairman Anita Bonds

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/looselips/2012/11/27/free-turkeys-arent-free/#more-13095

Should it the Office of Campaign Finance Investegate if Chairman Anita Bonds did threatened to take turkeys away from anyone who failed to sign her nominating petition. The Office of Campaign Finance should interview all those people that sign her nominating petition on that day.

Ward 8 Residents Weigh in on Pavilion

http://washingtoninformer.com/index.php/local/item/12386-ward-8-residents-weigh-in-on-pavilion

The pavilion’s development will cost $4.5 million and this is a temporary structure are they joking? $4.5 million to build a temporary pavilion. Why wasn’t I emailed about this meeting? I am a paid member of the Congress Heights Main Streets Organization! Or was that why I wasn’t email? Because I am the only one that asks the right questions.

Yes! Organic To Close East of the River Store

http://washingtoninformer.com/index.php/local/item/12402-yes-organic-to-close-east-of-the-river-store

I will miss Yes the Organic grocery store in ward 7  said Natale Lino Stracuzzi a ward 8 resident, really the location not all that great base on the parking in the neighborhood. That was why I didn’t shop there as much. So what we’re they thinking by putting a grocery store at that location. Also why are we always offering money as grants and a tax break to bring businesses to our city! east of the river. I feel we should develop community studies of our city to bring businesses to our city base on income, home values and our rapidly growing community’s also the development that is going on. We offer $900,000 to that  grocery store to open, just think how many people we could have fed?

Dear Congresswoman Norton,

Dear Congresswoman Norton,

I was most disappointed to see that you did not show up for the candidates’ forum at the Islamic Heritage Museum on Thursday evening, November 1.

Your refusal to participate denied our fellow DC citizens the opportunity to experience a fair and balanced discussion and debate about the current problems and future promise of our District. That is not acceptable behavior from someone who wants to continue to represent us in Congress as you do.

So, as I promised in my earlier letter to you, I will soon begin my Norton Chicken-mobile campaign with my redecorated VW Bug. I drive about 30,000 miles/year in that car in Virginia, Maryland Delaware, South Jersey and the District of Columbia. I expect to have many opportunities to talk with folks I meet about your reluctance to meet the people and defend your record in office.

Your steadfast refusal to respect the folks whom you are paid to represent will in the end result in your electoral defeat. Of that I am sure. I will be doing my best to help this process along by letting your constituents know of your neglect of your duty to them.

As you have probably guessed by now, I am a most persistent man. I do not doubt that eventually I will be successful in getting you voted out of the office you have held for so long. Perhaps you have heard the expression, “Little strokes fell great
oaks.”

But I will not be happy about the methods I am forced to use to do so because I have so much respect for you and for what you have done over the years.

You have had a long, distinguished and honorable career as a front-line activist during the most dangerous days of the civil rights movement, as a first-rate civil rights and civil liberties lawyer who defended freedom of speech even for those with despicable ideas, and as a civil servant who fought hard and well against every kind of discrimination. I am sorry to have to expose and discredit such a fine person as yourself, but I am left with no other option.

I hope that you will recognize that the people of the District of Columbia would be better off without a representative who refuses to participate in the electoral process and resign from your office while you are at the top of your game.

I will continue and expand my campaign to get you voted out of your office until I am finally successful.

Very respectfully yours,

Natale “Lino” Stracuzzi

Clinton Yates, from The Washington Post,

Mr Yates, from The Washington Post, says about Leon J. Swain, Jr., I’m dismayed by his lack of fundraising ability at this point. Swain’s inability to raise his own profile strikes me as problematic. If a man with his bona fides can’t bett
er market himself so why would he run for the at- large seat. He would be better off running for the ward 8 seat! So Mr Yates, How could Mr Swain, raise funds, If all the corrupt money goes to our elected officials! So would those corrupt people fund his campaign? Went he says he’s going to lock them up! We can only raise our money from the working class, witch can only give 5, 10, 20, 50 to 100 dollars at the max if we are lucky. Isn’t it you and our local medias civic duty, to report on all the candidates running for public office.That’s why the First Amendment protects you in your writung so you can speak freely and have the right in freedom of the press. That is why the local media has that civic duty to the public. So when our local media write about the corruption in our dc government. Just remember who put’s them there.

Natale “Lino” Stracuzzi from Stracuzzi for Congress.

Stracuzzi Challenges Eleanor Holmes Norton to Face-to-face Debate.Is Forum-shy Incumbent Congresswoman Really “Chicken”?

Stracuzzi Challenges Eleanor Holmes Norton to Face-to-face Debate.Is Forum-shy Incumbent Congresswoman Really “Chicken”?.