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a 01/05/2009 2:20:00 AM
Thank you Congresswoman Johnson for watching out for the Southerm sector of Dallas and its county. Why and who keeps voting this person back in office when he has shown he is out for the his best interest not the south dallas.
We have had no one to run or support any efforts for the innercity of South Dallas in twenty five or thirthy years come on community leaders where are you now we need to vote for change be it BLACK OR WHITE"
"KEEP BEING WHO YOU ARE CONGRESSWOMAN JOHNSON"
AS FOR Price, it is no suprisre.
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hs 12/29/2008 10:40:00 PM
Gret Job. May i recommend that you explore the Mike Radar/Wilmer Mayor connections and Mr. Radar's attempts to push the Allen Group out of Wilmer. ALso explore the Radar/JWP connections.
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HickMan 12/24/2008 7:35:00 AM
I've been alive as long as Price has been District 3's commish. I remember his days of protest and his mornings popping hot game on Soul 73 KKDA...vaguely, I admit. Pleasant Grove, Oak Cliff, and the sunny South have all been under his guard during that tenure, and they all still look like shit. The only change is that nowadays there are more Hispanic kids...and Oak Cliff folks have gotten the chance to practice their phonics on random songs (Oak Cliff smells too rotten to be put in anybody's face or understood).
I don't remember Schutze's "muckraking" on the Times Herald. Their closed headquarters downtown remain an empty hull, but I guess if the spirit lives on in the Observer, so much the better. 'Sides, a paper fueled by the advertising of night clubs, restaurants, and Asian massages can't be THAT bad. What I've read of Schutze I've enjoyed, though I don't trust him either...he is as susceptible to spin as Price is in my eyes.
Such mistrust of anybody with any sort of clout is symptomatic of those of us in the "blighted" southern sector of Dallas. We are not well educated (DISD is our only option), we are poor, and we are desperate for help. We have cried for years for assistance, for policeman and plumbing, and our calls to arms have gone on, unanswered and unabated for decades, since the late 70s when eminent domain took the Fair from us. We don't cry anymore. We don't look to Our Man Downtown anymore either. He left us to rot and spray paint what few homes still stand and drive those property values down.
We are not dumb, however. We know our future. This Intermodal shit won't happen. Price'll cockblock it because the Allen Group won't give his boy Willis Johnson a cut, so they'll leave Ralph Mader's Prime Interest and the Perots to seduce Price with some kickbacks because that's how it's always been done. By then, the trade flow will shift to Kansas City's intermodal facility because nobody has time for bullshit when they're trying to EARN money.
Eventually, the opportunity to develop the southern sector will exponentiate itself to a point where the infrastructure will finally come...but us broke black folks will have fled to Desoto and Cedar Hill or died. Developers will bulldoze what was our ancestral homes in south Dallas. Local churches, like IBOC or Friendship West, will tell us to sell our land...God's blessing or some such tripe. Really rich white people will get really richer, and once again, in a long and sad history, we will be stuck at the back of the bus of prosperity.
In the name of all that is good and holy in this world...please...somebody prove me wrong.
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biffula 12/23/2008 7:06:00 PM
Allens first mistake was investing in Dallas County in the first place. Is there anything that goes right in Dallas? County Commissioners, City Council, Sheriffs office, police force, Dallas ISD? What a bunch of idiots, crooks and communists over there. John Wiley doesnt think all the jobs provided wont be 'equity' and investment in the community? Dips like him only see the short term. Just like the crack dealer on the corner, plenty of cash in hand now, but where will he be 10 years from now?
That he would shout 'equity' in a meeting tells me all I need to know about that moron.
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Linda 12/21/2008 10:20:00 PM
1) Black Congressional Congress is RACIST organization that proudly states "NO WHITES ALLOWED" PROUDLY I SAY AGAIN
So if we wont listen to the KKK then anyone connected to the BCC is of the same ilk
2) Leppert Price DMN, oh my!
Shakedown is the exact /correct word to be used
3) the whole left wing agenda ONCE AGAIN FALLS APART when all they have to stand on is, "I'm less of a bigot than you are"
4) You want business and business that stay in your neck of the woods??
EDUCATE THE KIDS STOP BACKING UP CRIMINALS SUPPORT THE POLICE WHO WILL THEN NOT ONLY SUPPORT YOU BUT TURN IN BAD COPS AND GET RID OF ADVOCATES OF THE "FREE THE CRIMINAL" MENTALITY
THINK ABOUT IT
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Hall 12/20/2008 6:17:00 PM
CORRECTION:
A retired judge tells me the charge was Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle, a case that would be heard in Dallas County Courts. He says that, through the years, the story of that case got morphed into cocaine and ineffective assistance of counsel, which is what almost all who know of the story now believe. My apology to the Commissioner for relying on memory from 30 years ago.
However, the story the judge tells me may actually add more to the Informant theory.
He says there was a plea bargain in the case in the County Courthouse. Before the plea was ever entered, with the Defendant standing before the State Judge, somehow, and nobody ever understood how or why, it got transferred to a Federal Court. United States District Courts don't hear cases involving pilfered cars, cars used for a joy ride. He says the case just went away.
Search some of the much older Observer issues, there's an excellent writing from '96 that deals with many of the same issues as the current story.
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Hall 12/20/2008 5:44:00 PM
Are you sure?
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Yes.
JWP worked as a Clerk for JP Cleo Steele about that time.
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Travis 12/20/2008 11:04:00 AM
When I was at Townview, I remember J.W. protesting outside in the street, everyday, until finally students started pelting him with juice boxes and sack lunches. Less than two weeks later, traffic flow was normal and no more bullhorn.
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Betty Culbreath 12/20/2008 4:13:00 AM
Thanks Congresswoman Johnson. We've had minority Leadership in Southern Dallas County 25 years and not a lot of progress.We keep begging for Southern Sector development now ,we know why there has been none. Sad day for Black's in Southern Dallas. I hope other Officials will step forward and take a public stand against this type of activity. .
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DL 12/20/2008 4:05:00 AM
Hall of Plano. I was not aware of that. I can see now how he has gotten a free ride all this time. That Federal case is the best kept secret in town. I know Rufus Shaw had a case but I did not know JWP also had one. Are you sure?
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Hall`` 12/19/2008 2:21:00 AM
RE: FBI informant:
Were any of you here in the 70's, when JWP was convicted on cocaine charges in Federal Court. Amazingly, his lawyers convinced the Federal Judge shortly thereafter that JWP had had an "ineffective legal counsel", he got another trial. Can you guess what happened.
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Ann 12/18/2008 7:30:00 PM
""I wasn't a part of that," he said at first, "and I don't know anything about it, so I can't speak to it." But a moment later, contradicting what he had just said, Price told me, "When everybody was in Congresswoman Johnson's office, Congresswoman Johnson said to Richard Allen�I was there in the room�'OK, if that's the case, tell the FBI.'""
You know, I had an assistant that would pull this same tactic, she wasn't there and then when I questioned her about it, suddenly she *was* there. Sheesh! This woman was a pathological liar, so therefore let's say, for the sake of argument, that JWP is a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR with his hand out constantly wanting it to be greased!
Who keeps voting for this man???? Seriously, is he threatening the people of S. Dallas to vote for him "or else"?
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Karen 12/18/2008 4:36:00 PM
Hooray for Eddie Berneice Johnson!! She hit the nail on the head! This is an excellent opportunity for Dallas County and should not be wasted!
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DL 12/18/2008 6:31:00 AM
I am shocked at how John Price has openly tried to disrupt the Allen Groups business.I think it is illegal.Did you see how he said "call the FBI then" in your article. People in the Black community have wondered for years if John Price was a paid FBI informant because he has gotten away with so much through the years and wronged so many people. It seems the FBI sticks with City Officials and give the County a free ride.
